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This book sucked me in like any good sci-fi, but I don't think it deserves the kind of high falootin' "really describes the nature of humanity" praise. All good sci-fi does that, and this book is good sci-fi. The very limited use of punctuation and paragraph breaks really adds to the tension and chaos.

I couldn't fully appreciate the book, due to the sheer boriness of it. I mean, I din't hate it. Um, it could've been better.

When reading this book, it is hard to decipher the difference between Soviet women in the 1980s and what Soviet women were like through the lens of American feminism in the 1980s. The beginning was perversely interesting in its xenophily - I loved that the Russian word for condom is galosh. Chapter 11 kept me mildly interested in its discussion of the heroine in Russian literature. Worth it, just not amazing.