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

Sep 03, 2012 Mary Paul rated it did not like it

This book went on forever and then it just...ended. Ugh.
What bothered me more than anything was a complete failure to establish time frame within this. It was completely impossible to discern the main characters approximate age and/or time duration since the revolution thing because of conflicting and contradictory information. She couldn't have been too young because she had been childbearing when it went down and was still childbearing age....and yet her inured attitude suggested decades of a ...more

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Nov 23, 2009 Debbie Hughes rated it really liked it

I listened to this book on CD unabridged..and I could not stop!!
I totally was into this book.. I thought it was a great read and very thought provoking!!

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Mar 27, 2012 Trish rated it liked it

Shelves: 2013-reads

This book is a great story. It was probably purposefully written this way to go along with the "women can't read" law and what would come of women who were not aloud to read, but I found it hard to read because of the lack of punctuation and quotation marks around spoken words, not to mention the back-shadowing and jumping around.

This book did get me to thinking about our society and our government in this day and age, and about what's happening with our country (or not happening). I just pray ...more

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Sep 05, 2009 Sharon rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics, dystopia, 2009-read, 2017-read

Upgraded rating from 4-stars to 5-stars with 2017 re-read.

The first time I read this book, I liked it (2005?). The second time, I hated it (2009). The third time, I loved it (2017). Go figure.

My feelings have changed so much with each re-read it's shocking and surprising, and it really makes me want to go back and re-read previous loved-it/hated-it books. Age, perspective, and experience really make a difference... ...more

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