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A review by buttonsandbooks
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
3.0
I've wanted to read this forever, but like any classic work I fear the language isn't going to keep me in the story. When I saw Audible had a version of the classic read by Claire Danes, I snatched it up so fast. I have loved her since My So Called Life in the 1990s.
I won't bore you with much of a synopsis, but Gilead is a state/country run ad a theocratic dictatorship. Women are only of value if they can reproduce. Love isn't a thing. There's only the wives and the handmaids bound to the men and there for one purpose. Offred (whose name means "belonging to Fred", a nod to how women are treated as property) narrates her experience and suddenly goes dark. We are treated to a lecture at the end, explaining much of what we heard from her.
It seems like it's always a little terrifying to be a woman. Now. Then. In made up times. That was my takeaway from this. It was hard to follow at times. The writing style felt a little jerky to me, but the narration was great. This book epitomized what I find so scary about organized religion. That's only my take so do with it what you will. I'm curious to see the show.
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I won't bore you with much of a synopsis, but Gilead is a state/country run ad a theocratic dictatorship. Women are only of value if they can reproduce. Love isn't a thing. There's only the wives and the handmaids bound to the men and there for one purpose. Offred (whose name means "belonging to Fred", a nod to how women are treated as property) narrates her experience and suddenly goes dark. We are treated to a lecture at the end, explaining much of what we heard from her.
It seems like it's always a little terrifying to be a woman. Now. Then. In made up times. That was my takeaway from this. It was hard to follow at times. The writing style felt a little jerky to me, but the narration was great. This book epitomized what I find so scary about organized religion. That's only my take so do with it what you will. I'm curious to see the show.
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