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    <body><![CDATA[I love Margaret Atwood and she can do (almost) no wrong, so it's probably not shocking that I really liked this book. After all, I have read (in order): The Handmaid's Tale (multiple times), Cat's Eye, Robber Bride (I should go back and re-read these as it's been a long time) The Blind Assassin, Ali...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6865314">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read lady oracle to complete my lit degree. Well, this one is nice storytelling with metafiction and some fantasies. Atwood always build her character with her alienation towards her surrounding, to let her character find her own identity.<br/><br/>This character, Joan Foster is built to overcom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6036208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book really pissed me off. I guess there's no real character arc. The main character starts out weak, unself-aware and just really messed up (for plenty of good reason, so I did sympathize with her) -- but nothing has really changed by the end of the book. She's still messed up and unself-aware...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12426226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a big Margaret Atwood fan, mainly for her writing. Her books don't always have a lot of plot and sometimes I find her endings too pat, but I still devour her books for the language. Lady Oracle has one of my favorite beginnings to a book:<br/><br/>&quot;I planned my death carefully; unlike my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6097709">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sickly funny, in a way that's typically attributed only to men. The book begins with the narrator's (a writer of Harlequin romances) own faked death and becomes, finally, a woman writer enjoying her woman-ness, fat jokes and all. You could talk to this book over coffee about things that matter in yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4954457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books that makes you feel kind of intellectual, but doesn't take any effort at all to slip into.  Who can't relate to wanting to escape the life that you've built, or let happen, around you, at least from time to time?  Atwood is such an accomplished writer that the themes are a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6639748">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading this book, I feel like I have to re-read it again.  The story is reavealed to to the reader in such a way that you might not exactly know what's going on until chapters later.  Throughout the book, you feel as if something underlying is going on.  And at the end, you just want to psych...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15804669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favourite of Atwood's books, probably because in some ways it's the silliest.  Joan Foster is melodramatic and hapless, but entirely loveable.  Plus, there's a mystery!  And a fake death!  And a secret life in a foreign villa!  It's kind of like reading a romance novel, only a lot more wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1779618">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Atwood's books are all a bit quirky, strange, difficult -- not your typical novels to pick up and enjoy an escape.  They all can be quite dark, searching, haunting, etc.  Of all of her books, this was my favorite, second to Handmaid's Tale.    ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this one for it's outrageous take-off on the gothic form, and its moments of dark humour!<br/><br/>My review <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://literarymosaic.blogspot.com/2006/06/lady-oracle-margaret-atwood-1976.html" title="http://literarymosaic.blogspot.com/2006/06/lady-oracle-margaret-atwood-1976.html">http://literarymosaic.blogspot.com/2006/...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Charming, hilarious fun (though this might be one of the more pointedly anti-American ones, which bugs me).]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love M. Atwood, but this book...I still can't believe she wrote it.<br/><br/>In most cases Atwood's themes revolve around women in some form or another. For the first time I felt myself becoming so frustrated with the female protagonist. I wanted to slap her and tell her to (ironically) grow som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19430730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't enjoy &quot;Lady Oracle&quot; as much as I had enjoyed other Atwood novels that I've read. Atwood is one of my favorite writers so I still found this a worthwile read. The book is populated by smart, funny, and deep characters. The ending was a bit of a disappointment. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite book but interesting enough to suck me in.  A young woman who having grown up overweight and constantly reminded of the problem by her mother, receives an inheritance from her favorite aunt which comes with strings attached- lose the weight.  To escape he rather dysfunctional home li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54802748">more...</a>]]></body>
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