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Margaret Atwood is a master story teller. I have read several of her books and they differ in style and content, but are all compelling. This is the book chosen for May/June by Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club on Goodreads. The range of books that we have read since the inception of this book club is wonderful and I have read every book and enjoyed them all. The Handmaid's Tale is a chilling look at single minded zeal and totalitarianism and crippling discrimination against women. Let us
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Even in today's political environment I found the story of how this dystopia became established a bit unconvincing. Still, this is a disturbing dystopian novel, showing how easily groups of seemingly empowered people can be so totally enslaved and dehumanized when the wrong people gain unchecked power. I can see why this story has been in the public interest more over the past few years, and it certainly offers an interesting Christian version of what states run by religious extremists are like
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Nov 02, 2015
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“Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.
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“Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.
And somet ...more
A reread but I first read it back in high school so really didn't remember much about it, other than a general overview. I have nothing to base this on but my own memory of my reading experience but I would say that when I read it originally, it was probably the first dystopian novel that I ever read. That category of books is still one of my favorites. The book still leaves many questions in my mind...i.e. whatever happened to Offred, what became of her husband and child, was her life based on
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I think I would've liked it better in my younger years... But interesting to compare the novel to the series!
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Dec 12, 2017
Lisa
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Robin
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Denise (deesbooknook)
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