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'The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so in a way, there's nothing to dread.'
Margaret Atwood returns to a favourite genre of hers, that of Utopia/Dystopia, as in Handmaid's Tale, as in the Maddaddam Trilogy, and proves once more an expert of this field. There is biting satire, of sex, politics, technology, the penitentiary system and even a swipe at Las Vegas. I was luckily enough to see Margaret Atwood on tour with this book and she said ...more
Margaret Atwood returns to a favourite genre of hers, that of Utopia/Dystopia, as in Handmaid's Tale, as in the Maddaddam Trilogy, and proves once more an expert of this field. There is biting satire, of sex, politics, technology, the penitentiary system and even a swipe at Las Vegas. I was luckily enough to see Margaret Atwood on tour with this book and she said ...more
Around the Year Reading Challenge Item #48: A Dystopia
Don't be discouraged by the fact that this book took me five months to read -- I was reading it on my Kindle, which is pretty much the "slow lane" to my book traffic. (I usually only read it in waiting rooms.) The writing style is accessible and it could be a "fast read," although it's up for debate whether it might be considered "light."
Like most of Atwood's dystopias, this one is thick with social commentary, particularly as regards to sex ...more
Don't be discouraged by the fact that this book took me five months to read -- I was reading it on my Kindle, which is pretty much the "slow lane" to my book traffic. (I usually only read it in waiting rooms.) The writing style is accessible and it could be a "fast read," although it's up for debate whether it might be considered "light."
Like most of Atwood's dystopias, this one is thick with social commentary, particularly as regards to sex ...more
I love Margaret Atwood, her apocalyptic visions of the future are eerily realistic and not hard to imagine coming true, and they definitely make you think. This book has one of those futures where you can imagine it coming true, desperate people will do anything to get out of bad situations and when the main characters do, things start to get really weird. This book is actually pretty funny, the outrageous things going on and the outrageous things the main characters do made me laugh out loud at
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While I loved the Elvis bits, I just couldn't get into this audiobook. Maybe I'd have liked it more reading it on paper or even serially as it was originally published. Overall, it felt dark and grating and irritating rather than comedic or creepy as I'd anticipated. Alas!
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Atwood was having a lot of fun writing this one. I'm not sure what I think about the ending, but it was a great ride.
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