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This was really really good, I can't quite give it a 4 though...eehhh...I think. I don't know, I need to think about it. Definitely a 3.5 at least. How this world becomes what it is makes sense, but I just can't see this actually happening, so it doesn't put as much fear in me as 1984. I also don't love the very last chapter, it kind of takes away my connection to the main character and makes the whole book seem technical and far away. Which may have been the point, but I didn't love it.
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“The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you’ve been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil”
i don't know how i feel about this, the whole thing was like a future looking glass to what's going to happen to women in my country if those fanatic islamic groups so called ansar sharia took over, i was waiting for a revolution or something but at the end it was just the idea of a rebellion. ...more
i don't know how i feel about this, the whole thing was like a future looking glass to what's going to happen to women in my country if those fanatic islamic groups so called ansar sharia took over, i was waiting for a revolution or something but at the end it was just the idea of a rebellion. ...more
This is one of my favourite books. I listed it as American, but it's Canadian (however I felt that through the reading she was talking about America). It's a horrifying story of a woman forced to endure monthly rape to help an upclass infertile family have a child. The story is brilliantly crafted, through a series of memories of Offred we learn that she was employed and independent before the war changed everything. Her mother, a strong feminist, did not inspire the watchdog mentality in her da
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