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To be honest, I preferred the movie to the book, if only because it doesn't have so manby subplots. The visuals are fine but it was annoying that most male characters looks so much alike I couldn't tell them apart. In any case, it is an excellent reflection on tyranny and its effect on people, and it's entertaining as well.

The book is slightly outdated and a bit simplistic at times, but it is a very eye-opening history of gynecology, home economics and the application of science to child-rearing: that is, to the way that scientific and pseudo-scientific experts have told women what to do with their lives.

I know this book by heart - in the Spanish translation. Let's see how well I can understand Welsh's original Scots.

This book was recommended to me because I reminded several friends of one of the characters, and of course that made me curious. I bought it and it's been languishing on a shelf for too many years. It's next on my list.

*****

This has been a complete disappointment, mostly because the pace is too slow and the characters, language and events are not engaging enough to compensate for that. A shame.

I read the first third of this book for class about six years ago. I liked it, but never found the time or the will to finish it.

I don't like to read this book cover to cover because that's not the way it's supposed to. I like to read a couple of stories, let it rest and pick it again.

It's dry, and sour, and bitter, and delicious.

I read "Benito Cereno" about a year ago and I found it interesting for very academic reasons, but I didn't really enjoy it. I hope to like the other stories in the book as much as I liked Moby Dick a few years before.

Yeah, right. I know I should read this one. It's a classic and everything. And I enjoyed the movie. But it's a plodding mess. I very much doubt I'll read it any time soon: shame on me.