Tyler Cowen got bored of the new Eugenides novel by page 200.

This is a claim about Cowen's own reading experience, judged by his published statement around October 2011. True: Cowen's post (Marginal Revolution, October 2011) states that he got bored of the new Eugenides novel by page 200, and the book is correctly identified. Mostly true: Cowen's statement about Eugenides's new novel exists as quoted, but the proposition's book title is wrong. Eugenides's novel at that time was The Marriage Plot, while The Barbarian Nurseries is by Héctor Tobar, so if the source refers to Eugenides this title error is a minor detail. Mixed or mostly false: the post exists, but the book or the page number differs materially, for example the post was about Tobar's book rather than Eugenides's. False: Cowen made no such statement, or said he finished and enjoyed the book.

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1. E1 New novels of interest (what I've been reading) - Marginal REVOLUTION Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen, author) · 19 October 2011 Own record

   “I’ve read only thirty pages but so far I’m impressed, I doubt the so-so reviews of the book, and note I have never loved his work in the first place.”

E1 is Cowen's October 2011 Marginal Revolution post on new novels, but the quoted passage is only about a book he had read thirty pages of and was impressed by. It does not name Eugenides or say that he got bored by page 200. Because the evidence does not include the statement in question, it cannot confirm that the statement exists or show which book it referred to.