The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) in Never too Late to Read Classics

Jan 28, 2018 Jagrati rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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A horrifying tale that sends chills down your spine. What makes the story more frightening is the complete possibility of it to become true. Hopefully, it will not come to that.
With minimum words, Atwood creates maximum impact and you are lost in her words. Every sentence is bone-chilling and hits you hard.

The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, th ...more

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Aug 02, 2019 Melissa Singer rated it it was amazing

It was a little hard to get used to the narrative style, though it became clear at the end why it was used. Atwood is a master of literary device, possibly unlike anyone I've ever read before. It's truly terrifying to think that we could end up in a place like this as women if the political climate does not change. ...more

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Mar 08, 2016 Yefim rated it really liked it

Shelves: audiobooks, classics, female-protagonist, books-in-english, sci-fi, dystopias, arthur-c-clarke-award, slavery, feminist, dark

4.5*

This is a beautiful book, powerfully written and overflowing with femininity. As a dystopia, it is insightful and relentless in its dissection of the nature of totalitarianism, made all the worse by the fact that it had come true for millions of women in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and many other places in the 30 years since the novel’s publication. Offred’s passivity grated a bit- she’s no Winston Smith, that’s for sure- and is possibly more than a mere stylistic choice, but a product ...more

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