Helpful Score: 4
An interesting feminist science fiction story about a basically genderless utopia...I found most of the story depressing, and hard to appreciate fully.
Helpful Score: 3
I quite enjoyed this book, despite some of its darker themes. I think the portions about time travel were reasonable, non-sterotypical (rockets and lasers and all) and did not require me to suspend my disbelief to enjoy the book.
Helpful Score: 2
Marge Piercy leaves it up to the reader to decide whether Connie is schizophrenic or actually traveling to the future in her mind. Either way, the future in Mattapoisett is thought-provoking, remarkably well-rounded, and vividly pictured. It is society that has decided all inequality originates with the division of male/female, and so has chosen to have both men and women "mother" and breed babies technologically in a "brooder." It is also a communal society, focused on sharing and the greater good instead of on the individual. An astounding read that I highly recommend.
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I don't usually comment on books but this is my absolute favorite book of all time. If you like Piercy, you should love this book.
Helpful Score: 1
A brilliant & shocking tale of a women held against her will in a insane asylum as a subject of terrifying experimental treatments and her struggle to gain her freedom & her life.
