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

Margaret Atwood

Start date: September 1, 2013

Finish date: September 30, 2013

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Sept 2013 - The Handmaid's Tale

* Chapters 1- 12
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* Chapters 13 - 24
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Mar 05, 2017 Amélie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Amazing. Absolutely brilliant from start to finish, thanks to both the inspiring story and Margaret Atwood's way with words. I haven't read anything that great in ages (even though I've read great things). 10/10 will read again. ...more

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Sep 17, 2018 Alxandra rated it it was amazing

I did not want to give this book a 5 star, but I don't believe in rating a book based on my beliefs. And, to be honest, my complaints have to do with the televised version and not Margaret Atwood's work. This book deserves 5 stars.

It is written very well. There's an intentional disjointedness that speaks of the protagonist's trauma, but the book is carefully built, and there is a reason for the disjointedness beyond trauma that is explained in the last chapter. For me as a reader, it gives me gr ...more

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