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One of my campers this week, a fourteen-year-old baby-feminist who was reading 'The Handmaid's Tale' told me she loved Stephen King and all kinds of horror. She only came one day instead of all five, so I didn't get a chance to tell her most of the horror genre is just a man's fantasy, and that Beloved is actually one of the scariest things I've ever read.
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The writing is wonderful, and deep, and because it requires a lot of attention I think you get back a great reward meaning, however I had a real difficult time with the offensive language and sexual imagery which pretty well ruined the whole book for me. I feel this all unnecessarily distracts from the point of the book which is to bring to mind the hardship of the blacks during the era of slavery and shortly after. Take out all the sex and language and you'd have a great work of literature and
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One of the best books I have read in a long time. Excellent writing along with a extremely informative story.
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