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Title: Takes Some Effort
Review: If you are a modern American male reading "The Blind Assassin" you will probably hate the first 3/4 of this novel. The problem you are having is not the author, it is the swoony Victorian narrative voice.The narrator is a "bird in a guilded cage" to which things happen. World Wars are annoying. Money is a mystery. Work is something "other people" have to do.Everything is the fault of the men. Men are two dimensional. Men are too weak or too strong or somehow both. Men create the limits while women are helpless. Men create the world of luxury that women "suffer" in.Enter the Communist.When (if) you reach the final 1/4 of the novel, you will discover that the narrator HAD to be like this, to hold opinions like this, for the story to continue as it does. It's OK to dislike her for her actions and her world-view.If you still want to read The Blind Assassin, my advice is to aquire an audiobook version. The spoken "confession" is far more compelling than the written one.
