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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
Welcome to Gilead indeed!
This was a re-read for me. I read it in 2010 the first time and I don't re-read books very often but I felt this one was needed. It's very relevant these days.
This book was written in 1986 and wow, is it ahead of its time! I cannot believe some of this story and I admit to not remembering a lot of it from my first read. I think I enjoyed it a lot more this time and to say one can enjoy this story is very interesting in today's world. and all the more interesting is that ...more
This was a re-read for me. I read it in 2010 the first time and I don't re-read books very often but I felt this one was needed. It's very relevant these days.
This book was written in 1986 and wow, is it ahead of its time! I cannot believe some of this story and I admit to not remembering a lot of it from my first read. I think I enjoyed it a lot more this time and to say one can enjoy this story is very interesting in today's world. and all the more interesting is that ...more
I have complexes and mixed feelings about this book, and I've had them all along. Since the beginning I was captivated by the story, the setting was so unsettling (pun intended) that I was eager to see how the story was going to proceed, but my problem has always been the fact that I find the prose of Margaret Atwood slow, so slow that I always read some other books in the meantime. This time was no exception, but in the end I obliged myself to read the last 100 pages in one setting, because I w
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it was amazing
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