A review by misslezlee
Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
3.0
According to the receipts I found tucked away, I purchased this book from Chapter 11 on May 22, 2003. I also snagged a copy of No1 Ladies Detective Agency which I can tell you now, I didn’t particularly enjoy, despite all the rave reviews.
Chang and Eng sat on the to-be-read shelf all that time. I picked it up several times., but it never quite felt like the book I wanted to read just then. I’m not sure what I expected, but I did enjoy the story of the real Siamese twin brothers, Chang and Eng Bunker. It had a kind of Outlander feel to it, though that may just have been the fact that it was set in North Carolina a few decades later. The sex scenes, even though they are of necessity threesomes, do not even approach the descriptions of Claire and Jamie’s torrid lovemaking. Maybe it was something about the descriptions of everyday life?
The dust jacket says the book is woven from fact, myth and imagination. Their story is tragic and rather sad.
Chang and Eng sat on the to-be-read shelf all that time. I picked it up several times., but it never quite felt like the book I wanted to read just then. I’m not sure what I expected, but I did enjoy the story of the real Siamese twin brothers, Chang and Eng Bunker. It had a kind of Outlander feel to it, though that may just have been the fact that it was set in North Carolina a few decades later. The sex scenes, even though they are of necessity threesomes, do not even approach the descriptions of Claire and Jamie’s torrid lovemaking. Maybe it was something about the descriptions of everyday life?
The dust jacket says the book is woven from fact, myth and imagination. Their story is tragic and rather sad.