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Read again in 2017 for book club. Still chilling, it for addoitional reasons.
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I'm not sure when I originally read this - probably late in high school or in college - but I'm very glad I came back to it. If you've forgotten the basic premise, the narrator, Offred (like "of Fred" - as in the male head of her current household, her name changes as she is moved from place to place), is a handmaid - her only job is to bear a child in a society where pollution and viruses have made many people steri ...more
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I'm not sure when I originally read this - probably late in high school or in college - but I'm very glad I came back to it. If you've forgotten the basic premise, the narrator, Offred (like "of Fred" - as in the male head of her current household, her name changes as she is moved from place to place), is a handmaid - her only job is to bear a child in a society where pollution and viruses have made many people steri ...more
Dec 05, 2013
Ashley
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it was amazing
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I reread this after maybe 10-12 years. Not only does it hold up, I now find the "conference" transcript at the end so much more pointed a critique.
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Finished the listen just before the new show. It gutted me and I could listen in small spurts. Classic and necessary.
I know I read this at some point in my adolescence but MAN did I enjoy re-reading it. I loved everything about this book.
Mar 03, 2007
Kate
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it was amazing
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Dec 10, 2011
martha
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really liked it
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Jul 16, 2008
Lauren
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it was amazing
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Apr 19, 2010
Megan Reichelt
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really liked it
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