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I am somewhat dismayed that this wasn't required reading in college. This book is so rich in language and ideas. From the first page I knew I was in for a real treat from a master of the written word. The language is beautiful without being inaccessible---the ideas are clear and the structure is carefully thought through. This was a book club book but over the years at least 4 very different people recommended this book to me and now I see why. In my book club (which is made up of all women), we were particularly interested in how easy it might be for such a world to come into existence and how history would talk about this period in the future. The world this book is set in is nightmarish, from a woman's perspective, but it is also thought provoking and gives the reader pause----for how are the roles of men and women different today? Where does inequality still exist? How could men and women become equal? Is this even possible? What stops this from happening? These are the kinds of questions the reader asks him/her self. The only thing that stopped me in the past from reading this book was that, because of the cover, I thought this book had replaced humans with mice, similar to "Maus" without the illustrations and I could never quite get myself in the mood for such a book. I don't know why the cover made me think of mice but in any case, this book isn't about a world populated by mice that act like humans, it is a very human book.

WTF? I could only read about 10 pages.