From the Bookshelf of Around the World in 80 Books…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
I so much love everything by Margaret Atwood...she is so interesting and what a wonderful, wonderful writer!
Beautifully written and sentimental - at times the style was a too much, distracting if not overly sweet, but for most of the time is it artful, expressing and transporting.
The book opens up and presents an incredibly sad world and there perspective of one of it's victims. The theme presented are thought provoking... check it out.
I didn't find the end satisfying - the story has the content and characters to be a much longer book. The way it did end fits with the book and the message and leaves ...more
The book opens up and presents an incredibly sad world and there perspective of one of it's victims. The theme presented are thought provoking... check it out.
I didn't find the end satisfying - the story has the content and characters to be a much longer book. The way it did end fits with the book and the message and leaves ...more
First of all, no one does dystopia better than Atwood - she captures that perfect balance of plausibility and creeping fear better than anyone. But more than that, she weaves through a thread of empathy and understanding for how it came to be, and her villains are never caricatures (or even villains at all, sometimes). A brilliant work from one of my personal favorites.
Jul 17, 2014
Wendy
rated it
it was amazing
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
dystopian,
favourites
Margaret Atwood has written a terrifying yet wonderful book that I recommend others to read. Set in dystopian era, it follows the life of a young woman whose life is petrifyingly transformed. Not for the faint hearted. My heart is still racing.
Dark and awesome. Read it.
Oct 13, 2013
Dana Arbelaez
marked it as to-read
