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I read this back in high school and it was my favourite required read by far. I recall doing a project on the language used: the scrabble choices, the titles, phrases the protagonist talks about.
This reread just confirmed how damn good the book is. I love that ending as well - university of Nunavut! That wouldn't have hit me on my high school reading. I wish there was so much more of this, like the Maddadam trilogy with its different perspectives, because it was hard to leave that fascinating a ...more
This reread just confirmed how damn good the book is. I love that ending as well - university of Nunavut! That wouldn't have hit me on my high school reading. I wish there was so much more of this, like the Maddadam trilogy with its different perspectives, because it was hard to leave that fascinating a ...more
Margaret Atwood is one of my favorite authors. She combined morality fights and religiously political issues into a non stop fictional read.
I remember when signed up for a library card in the Tampa Bay system, times were tough then and I barely had money for a book, let alone food. I look back now and it was my possessive need of material possessions for OWNING a book. I didn't want to close the book, I wanted to follow the characters for awhile longer. Atwood wrote with such characterization ...more
I remember when signed up for a library card in the Tampa Bay system, times were tough then and I barely had money for a book, let alone food. I look back now and it was my possessive need of material possessions for OWNING a book. I didn't want to close the book, I wanted to follow the characters for awhile longer. Atwood wrote with such characterization ...more
The world that Atwood creates is eerily close to our own, which is what makes this book so successful and also so disturbing.
Apr 07, 2010
Alexandria
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Oct 01, 2011
Jama
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Jun 01, 2012
Isabell
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it was amazing
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Feb 13, 2013
Raul
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Linda
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