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    <body><![CDATA[My husband calls this my 'feminist rage' book. And it is, at least a little. But it's also about what it means to be a woman in this modern world, and all the myriad ways women (and people) are.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first Sherri Tepper book that I read... great story.. great heroines...I loved it.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is something I originally read about ten years ago, maybe a little less.  Coming across Amy Efaw's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6338619.After" title="After by Amy Efaw">After</a> reminded me of it, and I thought I'd give it a re-read.  My thought now is that the social/philosophical questions are more interesting than the story, but that the story and the questioning...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80971372">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well... not at all what I expected from (a) the back cover blurb and (b) the first page. Bought remaindered as I'd enjoyed Sheri S. Tepper's Beauty and her far-future SF, the back cover is all about millenial conspiracies; the prologue is girls at university in the fifties... and the whole is largel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46839121">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried. I did. This book has been on my to-read shelf since I was in high school (I went through a major Sheri Tepper phase for a while), and I was really looking forward to revisiting an author I'd really enjoyed in the past. <br/><br/>Unfortunately, I cannot get into this book to save my life. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44745112">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book for the clever title that ties so well into the story, the things it taught me and the pure entertainment value. I don't necessarily agree with the points it makes or the overly preachy delivery, which has been a feature in many of Tepper's books that I've read. I still admire her a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41149647">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorites. Great speculative fiction with an interesting twist!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not one of Tepper's best.  A good story but way too much preaching going on.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Riveting and scary. I can't wait to hear what my book club thinks on March 25th.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love this author. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my least favorite from my favorite author.  The bad guy is just way too evil and it takes too long to get around to his beat-down.  Also, I don't really believe that the distopia that is happening for the 1st half of the book is really possible, and since its set in our world it just seems to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24905734">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Tue May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has to be the worst Sheri S. Tepper book I've read. I usually love her books, despite their tendency to turn Really preachy at the end. This book makes some good points, but then makes them over and over and over while sledgehammering you with the message. I only managed to finish it because I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21692847">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ I think I may have reached the end of my ability to read Shari Tepper's novels, they are all starting to sound very familiar to one another. I loved Family Tree, and Grass is permanently stuck in my head, but the more I read the more formualic they seem. Surprise! This one is a feminist sci-fi/fant...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3716934">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all-time favorite books.  I re-read it right around the time Bush was being re-elected.  It was SOOOOOOOO frightening all the similarities I saw in that dark time to the frightening power struggles portrayed in this book.  I'm reading it again ... I'm crazy about this book!!]]></body>
    
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