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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

Margaret Atwood

Start date: November 1, 2016

Finish date: November 30, 2016

Why we're reading this: This was chosen by the group to read in November 2016
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Jun 11, 2012 Carrie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: mgr, science-fiction, own, 4-and-a-half-to-5-stars, classics, dystopia, feminism, alternative-history

This is a book that you like as it is written very well, and it is fascinating but you also hate it because the events are horrifying. I almost threw my copy, I wanted to trow it at the wall out of anger. Not because Margaret Atwood wrote a bad novel but because she wrote a believable novel, and that's scary. As a woman the idea of living this is terrifying and sickening. I applaud Ms. Atwood for being able to make me feel and picture this world so clearly. This is my second novel by this author ...more

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Mar 12, 2008 Terri rated it it was amazing

I have actually read this book multiple times. The first itme in college. I think it is excellent and very thought provoking.

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Dec 30, 2008 Kimberly rated it really liked it

Shelves: science-fiction

This book was astounding, chilling, distressing, and I couldn't stop reading it. When I finally got to the end of the story I was incredibly relieved - to be done, to be out of this world that Margaret Atwood created.

I am blessed to live in a society where freedom of belief is valued, and it terrifies me to think of restrictions - for men as well as women - actually being implemented HERE, in my country, in our society. And that is what the Handmaid's Tale is about. Change coming to our world. T ...more

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Sep 18, 2020 Christina rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: tmnas-book-club, read-in-2020

This is one of those rare instances where I enjoyed the screen adaptation better than the novel. The novel version of Offred felt so much like she was in a survival state that her small moments of rebellion didn’t feel like they would realistically lead anywhere.

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