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I just finished it about 20 minutes ago (Hello 3:30!) and I have to say I did find it very engaging and the prospect of such a society intrigued me. I really didn't like the layout of it initially. In fact, I still didn't really like it, I just got used to it. I understand why the author chose it to be choppy and disjointed. Hell, if I were the protagonist I would be lucky to string together two words about that experience let alone a "memoir".
Overall it was okay. I enjoyed it, I guess if "enjo ...more
Overall it was okay. I enjoyed it, I guess if "enjo ...more
A haunting, dystopian story set in a moralistic, religious regime somewhere in what is now the NE United States. A regime set up by men who in spite of placing themselves in positions of privilege feel that they have the right to flaunt the rules they impose on others. Atwood's rich imagination gives us a rigidly-controlled and officially violent society from the point of view of a woman whose position/job in that society is to bear children for the privileged few. The vision of women in red hab
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The story of a future where women have lost their rights and their only role is to have children. The story if told by Offred who is a handmaid, a woman assigned to a commander whose sole purpose is to get pregnant and if she does so she gives the baby to the commanders wife. The book was well written but it is also majorly depressing.
I really enjoyed this book. I think one of the best things about it, was that the "revolution" had *just* happened, so the narrator remembers what it was like before.
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Lexile 750L
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14.0
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14.0
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