Pros: Powerful narrative and well defined characters. Cons: I honestly can't think of any.
The most worrying thing about The Handmaiden's Tale is that it obviously could happen. A future country, perhaps America, is suffering from infertility in the populous and has been taken over by fanatics. Following an episode from the old testament where...
Pros: Really makes you appreciate the freedoms we do have Cons: Thoroughly depressing...
The Handmaid's Tale is depressing as a whole. It is also funny at times, confusing, hopeful, and inspiring. The novel examines the many variations on power, control, choice, freedom, fundamentalism, bigotry, and treatment of women.
Pros: Powerful and intense, writing style, unique view on sex and politics Cons: none
What would life be like without creativity, compassion, and freedom? Can you imagine not being able to read, laugh, or show love toward anyone? This is what life is like for a woman in Offred’s world. Offred belongs to the only class of fertile ...
Pros: A fascinating glimpse into a possible future. Horrifying but equally captivating. Cons: none
The dystopian novel has always been a fascinating affair and often conjures some images that we’d rather not think of but hoard like guilty pleasures. Margaret Atwood tackles this topic with much zest and disturbing content, some of which is...
Pros: Provocative; intense; captivating; well-written Cons: Ending is disappointing
In The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, a woman, known only as Offred, tells her story. She lives in the late 20th century in which the United States has retreated to a male-dominated, Puritan-like society. Women have no rights, cannot hold...
Pros: Orwellian in nature, "The Handmaid's Tale" offers a chilling plot for women. Cons: The book is disturbing.
Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" is a stunning and horrifying look at one woman's experience within a society that chose to remedy its problem of declining birthrates by enlisting unwilling Handmaids.
I read this one a long time ago, when it was first released. It was the cover of the book that caught my eye, the woman looking like someone out of a Brueghel painting, her face and body obscured by red and white.
Pros: Thought provoking, Very quickly consuming Cons: Some material is very obviously dated to the eighties
This was my first taste of Margret Atwood. I began 'The Handmaidens Tale' less than 24 hours ago, and for me, it was one of those stories that remained constantly in the forefront of my mind when I was forced to lay the book aside in order to carry on...
Pros: Powerful, terrifying cautionary tale Cons: No one is listening to it anymore
This book was so terrifying to me that it took me three tries to get all the way through it. (I was aided, in the end, by an unabridged reading from Recorded Books LLC, which I also highly recommend.) What terrifies me now is not only that it is...
Pros: A brilliant and terrifying glimpse of a horrifying future. Cons: Maybe too close to the evening news for some. May also cause weight gain.
Today as I was driving to work, my local NPR station broadcast a request for listeners to call or email the station and report what, if anything, has changed about them since the September 11th terrorist attack. "Well," I thought grimly, "I've gotten...
-Genesis "Night Falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet, if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind ...
Pros: Provocative, thought-provoking, disturbing view of a potential dystopia. Cons: None
If it's a pleasurable, page-turner you're after, look elsewhere. However, if you want a disturbing, thought-provoking novel about a horrifying, and not implausible, near-future dystopia, than Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" will fill...
Pros: Compelling dystopian story Cons: Atwood's prose can be hard to follow if you don't read closely
I have to admit, I have a weird addiction to this book. I picked it off a bookshelf at random in 1990 (I remember the date clearly, as it was during my one miserable year at an all-women's private Catholic college), and couldn't put it down - even when...
Pros: futuristic story that is not too far fetched Cons: there is no sequel
i had never heard of margaret atwood before this book. i love to read but it is hard for me to pick a miscellaneous book and start reading. i read the synopsis of the handmaid's tale and i thought it looked interesting. the next thing i know i could not...
Pros: Exceptionally well written and intense book. Cons: Some may not understand.
Imagine, one day in the future that terrorists kill the president and all members of congress. You and your husband are in shock as is the rest of the country. The government is holding on by thin threads, trying to organize elections. In the mean...
In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Comman...More at Barnes & Noble.com
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