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

Margaret Atwood

Start date: March 22, 2014

Finish date: March 31, 2014

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Jun 11, 2012 Carrie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: mgr, science-fiction, own, 4-and-a-half-to-5-stars, classics, dystopia, feminism, alternative-history

This is a book that you like as it is written very well, and it is fascinating but you also hate it because the events are horrifying. I almost threw my copy, I wanted to trow it at the wall out of anger. Not because Margaret Atwood wrote a bad novel but because she wrote a believable novel, and that's scary. As a woman the idea of living this is terrifying and sickening. I applaud Ms. Atwood for being able to make me feel and picture this world so clearly. This is my second novel by this author ...more

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Jan 21, 2012 Beth rated it really liked it

I've wanted to read this book for more than a decade, so it's a double pleasure having enjoyed it so much and checking it off my to read list. What struck me most was not so much the social commentary, although that may have been Atwood's main intent, but the emotional life of the narrator. The way the novel was structured, I felt drawn in to what at first felt like a emotionally distant character. But by the end I was feeling her reactions viscerally.
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Jul 14, 2022 Lauren rated it it was amazing

🤯 I just can’t say enough about this book! 🤯

Creepy and prescient, with echoes of history, this story projects the uprooting of American values by a neoconservative theocratic government that is unthinkably worse even than Salem during the witch-hunts.

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