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I read this book recently and found it quite interesting and enjoyable. I like reading about different cultures and seeing what makes people think and behave the way they do. I do have to agree, however, with some of the comments here that have said that perhaps there wasn't enough...

Happy birthday! Hope you have a great day. You're exactly my age! :eek:

That's the first book that comes to my mind that I truly hated. And the "My mother is a fish." chapter is one of the reasons why, too. The only thing I got from that book is a loathing for Faulkner.

I kind of liked Iris as an old lady. She was fairly irascible but some of the things she said and thought totally cracked me up. I can see myself being a bit like that someday.

No pictures and quite a few really big words. You may want to keep a dictionary handy. ;)

Ohhh! That completely makes sense to me! Maybe Laura's suicide was a bit exploitive - she'd thought she'd make Iris sorry for having had the relationship Laura had always wanted with Alex.

Why watch television when there's so many great books out there? :)

Well, I'm not finished with it yet, but I've been assuming that the woman having the affair is Iris. Yeah, she must not always do what's expected of her, but I think that her initial motives in the marriage were fairly pure. (Are you sure that you and I aren't married? We rather sound like...

Ok, I confess I don't know much about the Desperate Housewives, being the one person in America who doesn't watch television... But I still believe that Iris was trying to "do the right thing" when she got married. She COULD have chosen poverty but she was trying to do what was expected of...

I don't think that Atwood ever gives the impression that Iris did it for the money - I always had the impression that Iris did it out of a sense of duty. Remember that throughout history women were expected to marry well or marry whom the family chose out of respect for the family. It's only...

I didn't see her so much as being "bought off" by money and pretty clothes as much as I saw her being a victim - expected to "save" the family by marrying well. Her father gave her a choice but she could have hardly have said no considering the financial condition they were all in.

I've rather enjoyed the clothing descriptions. It's a little like watching a period film - the costumes are part of what make it interesting. It's probably a thing that appeals to women more than men, though! Don't you think that people are still judged by what they wear today? I think...

I'm about two-thirds of the way through. It's one of those books where I'm enjoying it so much I can feel myself gulping it down as quickly as I can, but I also know that when I'm finished I'm going to feel bereaved. I'm fascinated with all the different stories going on at the same time and...