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

Margaret Atwood

Start date: March 1, 2010

Finish date: March 31, 2010

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Jul 03, 2017 Mo rated it liked it

Shelves: classics, 0-dl, best-sellers, dystopian, 2017

2 1/2 stars

I look at the one red smile. The red of the smile is the same as the red of the tulips in Serena Joy’s garden, towards the base of the flowers where they are beginning to heal. The red is the same but there is no connection. The tulips are not tulips of blood, the red smiles are not flowers, neither thing makes a comment on the other. The tulip is not a reason for disbelief in the hanged man, or vice versa. Each thing is valid and really there. It is through a field of such valid obj ...more

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Feb 04, 2013 Allan Fisher rated it liked it · review of another edition

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At first I fell in love with the author's words, then got bored by what seemed to me a constant moaning from the protaganist.
Apologies, but that's how I felt. ...more

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