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

Margaret Atwood

Start date: November 1, 2024

Finish date: November 15, 2024

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Jul 11, 2017 Ezi Chinny rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook

3.5 stars

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Dec 31, 2018 dani rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017-to-read

WOW

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May 21, 2016 Tanya Patrice rated it it was ok

Maybe 2.5 - but I rated it less because I need my books to have a story - a plot ... To start somewhere, and end up somewhere else, with things happening in between the beginning and the end. That's what I think this book lacks. A+ for writing style and premise, as well as world building. But without a dramatic story - and it easily could have one - I was left counting the pages until the end. ...more

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Dec 21, 2015 zemkat rated it really liked it

Shelves: challenged, book-riot-read-harder

For the Book Riot 2016 Read Harder challenge, this title fell under Task 7 (Read a dystopian or post-apocalyptic novel) and Task 19 (Read a Nonfiction Book About Feminism or Dealing With Feminist Themes).

We've given them more than we've taken away, said the Commander. Think of the trouble they had before. Don't you remember the singles' bars, the indignity of high school blind dates? The meat market. Don't you remember the terrible gap between the ones who could get a man easily and the ones who

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Apr 10, 2022 Robin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 20th-century, fiction, christianity, first-person, speculative-fiction, dystopian, feminism, thought-provoking

Still a classic. This was my second time reading it--this time for a class on metafiction. Rereading it, I was once again struck by how much it builds onto and is in conversation with 1984. I found a new appreciation of Atwood's writing because it seems even more eerily relevant now after all that has transpired since 2016. This time around, I really enjoyed the prose itself and the craft put into the telling, both of which kind of went over my head on the first reading. I love the intertextuali ...more

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