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This is a tough one to rate. I've clicked back and forth between 3 and 4 stars a few times.
What I can say for sure: This book affected me. Maybe part of that involves reading this book in 2016. It's been a tumultuous year personally for me and socially/politically for my country. I would also attribute it to Atwood's visceral, brutal writing. Her prose is somehow sparse yet loaded, packing a punch with every sentence. It took over one month for me to make it through the book (and it isn't long). ...more
What I can say for sure: This book affected me. Maybe part of that involves reading this book in 2016. It's been a tumultuous year personally for me and socially/politically for my country. I would also attribute it to Atwood's visceral, brutal writing. Her prose is somehow sparse yet loaded, packing a punch with every sentence. It took over one month for me to make it through the book (and it isn't long). ...more
I read this right after it came out and found it haunting. Re-read it for book club recently. Even scarier today given our current political climate. Being denied the right to read would kill me - it really would.
Jul 23, 2012
Michelle
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