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I so much love everything by Margaret Atwood...she is so interesting and what a wonderful, wonderful writer!
Very good story.
Are you a woman? You need to read this book.
When I originally read this in middle school, it was just okay. I didn't have enough knowledge of the world to understand that governments can be overthrown. I recall I was also a bit weirded out by the use of the F word, which I hadn't heard much in my pre-cable TV, pre-internet, small town childhood. So as a tween in the late 80's, I didn't connect to the story or characters at all. What I did love was that this was the first book I read that was basically a long journal entry or letter to the
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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 08, 2009
Laura McDonald
marked it as to-read
