Well, I just finished reading this book. I never read this book when it was originally published back in the 80's. I've always wondered what the fuss was about.
As I read the book and got into the characters and overall theme, for some reason the overall symbolic anthropological argument of this book is pissing me off...I think it has to do with the super intelligent main character being blond and blue-eyed juxtaposed against the indigenous dark-skinned community (no offense intended to my blond, blue-eyed friends!)... perhaps I'm just being ultra-sensitive?... any comments?
In any case, I'm done reading this book if anyone wants to borrow it. I have to say that the story was ok, as soap operas go. I found my liberal feminist sensibilities roused at the end. Not enough to put the sequel on my "must-read" list though.
I give it 2 out of 5 stars...I think the average rating was 3.2 (which really makes me wonder how it got to be on the NY Times best seller list back in the day).
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