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last updated Jan 07, 2013 02:43AM
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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.
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Very interesting and thought-provoking read for certain and one I liked even though the idea of this ever becoming a possibility is frightening. It is a story of a republic called Gilead in which is formed in the future after the president is killed along with all government leaders and taken over by a religous sect. It is an extreme society where women are forbidden to read or leave their assigned homes alone and are kept for the sole purpose of reproduction. The republic of Gilead is a brutal
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it was amazing
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