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I have actually read this book multiple times. The first itme in college. I think it is excellent and very thought provoking.
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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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The first of the dystopian future novels that I read - and an influencer of Hunger Games, Divergent, etc. Still the best in my opinion.
My girlfriends at work, all in the English dept (I'm Social Studies), kept telling me that I would love this book. I bought it and put it on my shelf and there it stayed for months. The mood has to strike to read a certain genre. So, it finally hit me Fall of 07' and, after reading, I texted them all with a "You're right! I loved it!" It may not rank as high as 1984 but it certainly holds rank with the rest of my top favorites. The writing itself was smooth, effortless almost. The strong female
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I normally don't like dystopian novels or ones that make a Big Statement but I really enjoy Atwood's writing and she does a fine job in not being too preachy. At the end of the book I literally said WTF out loud and then there was the whole Historical Notes thing and I have to say, respect.
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Definitely chilling, in a this-could-be-the-possible-future sort of way. I've actually never read 1984, but I did read Brave New World and even though the two have the same overall subject of utopias gone horribly wrong, The Handmaid's Tale was something that I could quite possibly fear as it deals along the lines of female sexual slavery...
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