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Title: Seduced and disappointed
Review: I was seduced into reading this book by the many positive reviews, and by a yearning to relive my joy of reading Moby Dick many years ago in high school. For the past two weeks I've gone from savoring the language and intriguing story of Ahab's Wife to skimming through the final 150 pages, impatient for it to be finally over. Ms. Naslund's blatant feminist agenda is rivaled only by that of Jean Auel, who attributed everything but the invention of the Internet to her Cromagnon heroine, Ayla. Una and her entourage are ultimately implausible as characters, standing more as icons for Ms. Naslund's beliefs. Ahab is the most human character of all, and I'll soon revisit him in his original incarnation.
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