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Title: Ultimately flat and boring
Review: While I agree with many reviewers that the subject matter is interesting and perhaps relevant to today, where women are stripped of rights in some places in the world, I did not like this book. As a result of her situation, Offred's character holds herself distant from the world around her. While a reasonable response to a screwed-up world, her narrating is just as distant and flat and I found myself not really caring what happened to her. The plot moved very slowly, and I wound up reading the plot synopsis on Wikipedia just to see if anything better is coming. It doesn't appear so, and so I'm not sure if I'll even bother with the last few chapters of the book.
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