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I selected this for the 2016 BookRiot Read Harder Challenge category "Read a dystopian or post-apocalyptic novel." Once I got into the rhythm of the story, I really enjoyed this brilliant satirical cautionary tale, and really liked the dreamlike feel to the narration. As I read the novel, it felt like I was listening to the titular handmaid relaying her story, as she recalled the past. Set in the fictitious Republic of Gilead (in what we later learn is somewhere in what would be Maine), the stor
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Not at all dated and scarily relevant in 2017, I'd heard good things about the TV show so finally boosted this on to my reading list just in time for Channel 4 to pick the show up in the UK. I've seen a lot of reviewers who felt that it was unrealistic, that the women born before Gileadan society was founded would never have submitted so easily, but when your money, property and employment are taken from you and the government will torture or execute anyone who doesn't step into line, surely sub
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Imagine a world where women have no rights. Where woman are classified by whether they are fertile or not. This is the world Margaret Atwood introduces in The Handmaid's Tale and this was my book club pick for the month of April.
It frightens me whenever I read a book that is set in the future but is still eerily relevant to the here and now. What is going on today with Planned Parenthood funding and the right wing fundamentalists of the US reminds me of the beginning days of the Republic of Gile ...more
It frightens me whenever I read a book that is set in the future but is still eerily relevant to the here and now. What is going on today with Planned Parenthood funding and the right wing fundamentalists of the US reminds me of the beginning days of the Republic of Gile ...more
Worth the reread in light of present political climate. Also interesting to read now (as opposed to the first read in my early twenties) in light of infertility and post-academic life.
Still just as creepy as when I read it back in high school. Only now I feel the subject matter being terribly prescient.
Oct 28, 2012
Sara
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it was ok
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Mar 18, 2017
Leslie Jerkins
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really liked it
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