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Oct 16, 2009 Graceann rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, banned-by-idiots

In this classic novel, Margaret Atwood offers us a story of a future that is not entirely out of the realm of imagination. As is stated in the final chapter, nothing mentioned in the novel is truly fictional - each of the events happened at one time or another in human history: subjugation of women and forced breeding are hardly new concepts. What Margaret Atwood does here is create a "civilization," Gilead, wherein all the small elements that were used at various times come together in a horrif ...more

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Jan 21, 2012 Beth rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I've wanted to read this book for more than a decade, so it's a double pleasure having enjoyed it so much and checking it off my to read list. What struck me most was not so much the social commentary, although that may have been Atwood's main intent, but the emotional life of the narrator. The way the novel was structured, I felt drawn in to what at first felt like a emotionally distant character. But by the end I was feeling her reactions viscerally.
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Jan 21, 2017 Isabel Jazmín rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Una distopía que espanta por su cercanía. Una historia contada a retazos que se completa con los propios elementos. Una protagonista como cualquier mujer que se ve expuesta a una situación extrema.

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Apr 27, 2008 Cari rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: best-of-the-best, kindle-read

Just as great as ever, this time around!

I read it first in high school. Then again in college. After that it became a required read every 2 or 3 years. Every time, the story captivates me. The totalitarian society artfully depicted by Atwood that uses women in the most fundamental sense is unfortunately not far in principle from the innumerable ways nearly every society and every religion of the world has found to stifle women, whether in the past or today. Beyond that, this book is also just a ...more

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