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Ok where to start with this book - well first of all there are far better reviews than anything I could post. The book is as the cover rightly says, is a modern classic and I will not challenge that.
The book has undergone many reprints, has been turned in to a film and there are several literary dissertations on it (and that is all that I am aware of I am sure there are more)
But what of the book itself - it is chillingly believable - even more so with the state of the world. On one had you see ...more
The book has undergone many reprints, has been turned in to a film and there are several literary dissertations on it (and that is all that I am aware of I am sure there are more)
But what of the book itself - it is chillingly believable - even more so with the state of the world. On one had you see ...more
Altho they were completely different stories, just as the first Atwood I read ("Alias Grace") took some time to grab my interest, so too, did "The Handmaid's Tale". However, once it succeeded in capturing my attention, it held it firm and fast.
The attitudes and values that parallel those present in today's society are alarmingly clear(if somewhat exagerated) and extremely frightening! The references to using plastic rather than paper money; the identipasses; the Compubanks....earily familiar.
Wha ...more
The attitudes and values that parallel those present in today's society are alarmingly clear(if somewhat exagerated) and extremely frightening! The references to using plastic rather than paper money; the identipasses; the Compubanks....earily familiar.
Wha ...more
I really liked it. It reminded me of the movie I saw oh, so long ago. I would hate for the world to come to this.
This was a book I finished up on the plane ride back to Manila.
I was disappointed to be honest as I almost always am with dystopian literature. I love the genre, but the writing is painful to read. This book would have been better served to have been written in third person instead of first person. Intriguing and unique concept in that the Quakers have pretty much taken over the world. I am curious how this alternate universe came about since there are almost no modern day Quakers at the entry p ...more
I was disappointed to be honest as I almost always am with dystopian literature. I love the genre, but the writing is painful to read. This book would have been better served to have been written in third person instead of first person. Intriguing and unique concept in that the Quakers have pretty much taken over the world. I am curious how this alternate universe came about since there are almost no modern day Quakers at the entry p ...more
It's creepy how real I feel this dystopia could become with the way the world is going...especially the US with Trump and Pence and Bannon. Look out Atwood, real life handmaidens are coming!!
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"You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell, we can make for ourselves."
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Feb 18, 2008
Rosemary Grace Bartlett Libby
rated it
it was amazing
Shelves:
scifi-fantasy,
favorite-sci-fi-and-fantasy
Jan 06, 2009
Andrew
marked it as abc-challenge-2010
Aug 12, 2021
Kylie
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
dystopian,
acquired-2011
Oct 02, 2013
Bonnie
marked it as to-read
