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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

Margaret Atwood

Start date: December 1, 2014

Finish date: December 1, 2014

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Jun 08, 2017 Jardeen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own, classics

SO GOOD

Gonna need a happier book for my next read though.

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Jun 18, 2017 Jeni rated it really liked it

Shelves: beers-and-book-club

It was great! It was a book that was hard to put down. I wasn't surprised by the feminist overtones, but what did surprise me was how bleak it was for the men too. Yes, women lost power and it became a total patriarchal society, but there were still different classes of men. And they lost love too. It was clearly a lonely life for the Commander and he missed having a real connection with a partner, someone he could talk to and share ideas with rather than the new system of wife and handmaids. Th ...more

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Oct 08, 2017 Margot rated it it was amazing

Shelves: i-own-it, favorites, 2017-read, audio-books

Wow!

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May 06, 2017 Mary rated it really liked it

Shelves: dystopian, borrowed-from-the-library, books-read-in-2017

This is a terrifying book to read in 2017 in the Trump era.

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Apr 09, 2017 Kate rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, kindle, 2017

Brilliant. Terrifying. I couldn't stop reading this. Anytime I did stop reading this and then thought about it, I heard her words echoing through my head and I knew I was gritting my teeth.

I... it's too real. ...more

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