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No secret that I felt compelled to re-read this book before The Testaments comes out next week. I'm so glad I did because my memory was very hazy. I completely forgot the epilogue. I completely forgot that it ended on an ambiguous note. I completely forget how dang great this book is, and now I can also see how clever. The only negative at this point is how can a sequel possibly compare. Well, we are talking about Margaret Atwood so I have hope.
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I can't believe that it took me this long to read The Handmaid's Tale, but there's nothing like an impending adaptation to force my hand. (Although, when I was a kid, I added my mom's copy to my TBR stack because I thought that it was about the Middle Ages. Little Ann would have been so surprised! Thankfully, it started with H so I never got anywhere near reading it.) I don't really have anything better to add to the discussion of how terrifying this book is, and how few steps it would take to f
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Excellent book that really makes you think. I don't particularly like the futuristic dystopia books, but this one was alright. I appreciated the Biblical themes. It is quite frightening when one considers the possibility of themes from this book coming true someday.
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Mar 10, 2007
Rachel
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I'm ashamed to say it took me so long to read this, but now I can say I'm one of the club! Provoked lots of thoughts, and written really well. Am going to attempt Cat-Eyes for the next Atwood novel, but not for awhile.
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Loved it! Gripping, intelligent and thought provoking...this is definitely one of Atwood's best books!
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This was one of the first books I read from the list and it was my first book by Atwood. I've read plenty others and while this one is good, I like some of the others more. Story is set in the future in a dystopic world where childbirth is by handmaids. There is much to appreciate in the book but also some flaws. The use of religion as the reason for the dystopia was off-putting for me. But I also see so many parallels to the current situation where whole society is being "changed" by political
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The story of a future where women have lost their rights and their only role is to have children. The story if told by Offred who is a handmaid, a woman assigned to a commander whose sole purpose is to get pregnant and if she does so she gives the baby to the commanders wife. The book was well written but it is also majorly depressing.
What an absolutely horrifying and amazing book. Definitely something that is going to stay with me for a while. It is a rare thing when a book leaves me wordless in response.
I went through a few years where I thought this book was a little dated. But over the past 7 years I have stopped thinking that. Hopefully it will become dated again.
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