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What an exceptional novel. The first time I read it some 7 years ago, I gave it 4 stars. This time 5. I savored every line. It's written so beautifully with such vivid rich descriptions. Also such a timely novel given the current political climate. So many read the classic dystopian novels 1984 and Brave New World (as I just did again this past month), but this book is written IMHO so much better and considers gender as a central focus. Whereas 1984 and Brave New World have major threads of miso
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How can a book be beautiful and terrifying at the same time? I literally woke up each day (while reading this) grateful for not being in Gilead yet petrified at the possibility that, in some way, we might just be in it already.
Read and reflect everyone!
Read and reflect everyone!
The scariest part about reading this book during these political times is that you can't help but think, "This could never happen to us", then you read an article about a bill that guts women's healthcare. And you have to stop and say, "we can't LET this happen to us." I wonder if it would have had such an effect on me had I read this before the current administration was elected.
I do agree with others that the epilogue could have been left off, but having read some of Atwood's other work I reco ...more
I do agree with others that the epilogue could have been left off, but having read some of Atwood's other work I reco ...more
Another celebrity-voiced audiobook, another win. FOUR FOR YOU, CLAIRE DANES.
The bit at the end was the only thing that didn't work for me - leaving the creeptastic creepy creepshow of the rest of the book gave me a sad, for some reason. Also, the anachronisms cracked me up - a future with no interwebs? But everyone smokes? Whaaahuh?
I read today on twitter (because life is scifi, you guys) that this book is going to be a graphic novel, which is cool, so I can see what my town will look like when ...more
The bit at the end was the only thing that didn't work for me - leaving the creeptastic creepy creepshow of the rest of the book gave me a sad, for some reason. Also, the anachronisms cracked me up - a future with no interwebs? But everyone smokes? Whaaahuh?
I read today on twitter (because life is scifi, you guys) that this book is going to be a graphic novel, which is cool, so I can see what my town will look like when ...more
I am starting to feel like I should have a distopic feminist science fiction shelf on my goodreads page. I am re-reading this for the first time since high school and it is the classic I remember it to be, though I feel like it would benefit from a discussion conducted by a really good high school English teacher--I can tell that I should be thinking harder about all of the nice 1984 like issues that it raises than I currently am, reading on the subway.
This is my second read of Handmaid's Tale, but I read it so long ago that I really didn't remember many of the details from the book. I'm glad that I read it again at this time in my life. It really is quite scary to read during our current political climate.
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[Re-read, but the last (and first) time I read this was about 25 years ago, so most of the details had disappeared.]
Jan 21, 2012
Nicole
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really liked it
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Feb 22, 2017
Heidi
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liked it
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Jan 05, 2017
Colleen
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it was amazing
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