While I enjoyed the book, i found it very dated. If I would have read it when I came out, just a few years after the book, I probably would have loved it.
I read this when it was first published in the '80s. I'm re-reading it now on my kindle.
So, I finished re-reading it and I have to say I liked it better this time around. I think the first time, I was too close and involved in the experience of male chauvinism. Some men still 'don't get it', but I find it easier to let them perpetuate their own ignorance.
Anyway, Forrest really captured the climate of that time and her characters are so real.
I liked the characters alot. I did not like the infidelity (why do people cheat. I almost stopped reading) or the last act of the book but it was entirely believable just hard to read.