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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-11 10:22 PM
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what is your favorite Margaret Atwood book?
Oryx and Crake / Year of the Flood are mine , at least they are today . I named both books because they are different views of the same apocalyptic future .
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-11 10:26 PM
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1. Without a doubt, my favorite is The Handmaid's Tale
I liked Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood but for me they had nowhere near the impact of the Handmaid's Tale.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-11 10:34 PM
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3. The Handmaids Tale
scared the bejeezus out of me.In other words, I loved it
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-11 11:13 PM
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8. I remember an interview with Atwood years ago about the book
She said that women in Canada and the UK thought it was a "jolly good yarn" while women in the U.S. were coming up to her at book signings and expressing how realistically frightening it was.
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-11 10:30 PM
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2. A Handmaid's Tale first and The Robber Bride second. eom
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-11 10:39 PM
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4. MANY years ago
Edited on Sat Feb-12-11 10:44 PM by JitterbugPerfume
we had a detailed discussion in GD on The Handmaids Tale.
It was one of our best discussions ever , but it was so long ago that it was in the old DU! We just don't go into that much depth on our book discussions any more

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AlinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-11 10:44 PM
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5. The Handmaid's Tale. Fundamentalists take over, today's republican dream. nt
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fadedrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 12:19 AM
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10. This is a "horror" book?
Too scary for me.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 11:02 AM
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12. the total subjugation of women
even to the point of changing their identity
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-11 10:56 PM
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6. Life Before Man
:headbang:
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-11 11:00 PM
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7. I haven't read that one yet
tell us about it?
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-11 11:34 PM
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9. Well, the themes are really quite familiar
Bad memories, bad marriages, guilt, lust, infidelity. But I guess that's what so great about Atwood: to merely recite her plotlines makes them kind of dull. It's how she writes them that make it matter.

:headbang:
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 01:03 AM
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11. The Handmaid's Tale. Probably one of my top 5 favorite novels.
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eablair3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 01:09 PM
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13. Where does everyone rank The Blind Assassin?
just wondering, ... as I haven't seen The Blind Assassin mentioned in this thread ... didn't she win the Booker Prize for it?
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 04:09 PM
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16. The Blind Assassin
is a wonderful book. It really is hard to pick a favorite.
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mainer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 01:21 PM
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14. I loved Alias Grace
Surprising twist at the end.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 02:19 PM
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15. True Stories/Two-Headed Poems.
I think Atwood's poetry is far, far superior to her prose.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 04:18 PM
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17. I have
morning in the burned house and The Door . I agree that her poetry is amazingly beautiful.

No one so far has mentioned Cats Eye. It is about the cruel way little girls behave toward other girls. It is "can't lay it down" book.
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 05:51 PM
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18. yes i will vote for "cat's eye"
damned good book, i guess "the robber bride" is my second favorite

but they are all wonderful
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