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Pros
Offred is a young woman who has been designated as a bearer of children for the republic of gilead. Her job is to be treated as a surrogate mother/womb for a commander, in this case fred waterford. Being a handmaiden is actually one of the better opti... Read More
A story that has a very timeless quality, it is a dystopia that is not outside the realm of possibility which is what makes it so haunting. It is a dystopian view of what could be but in many ways is a book about lots of women and men's lives as they ... Read More
Cons
We know what life is like today so there's really no need to make constant flashbacks to it. Sorry margret. Returning and will try another seller. Not for me.
There is very little substance to the book, that it is full of page after page of 'filler' there was an undercurrent of staccato highlighted throughout the book. Attempts towards the end of the novel to give offred and her master a bit more humanity b... Read More
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Even more so with the current situation regarding abortions and woman’s rights in texas and the rekindling of the roe v wade debate
Great item was ordered as a christmas present recipient happy with item and quality
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Be aware there is triggers in here
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I am finding the characters complicated as so far the book for me doesn’t flow as well as i had anticipated at present
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Hopefully this will change as it’s included in my a level english
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So like many people i have watched the tv show and that’s how i found out that the tv series is based on a book
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I can’t say for sure if i prefer the book differences to the tv differences as i understand why some aspects of the book may have been changed for tv’s purpose but i was a bit surprised in the book that hannah isn’t mentioned a lot and luke is considered an afterthought
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It did surprise me as well that they believed it was because the caucasian birth rate was going down and every other race was more fruitful so gilead was also born about of racial superiority as well as infertility
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It has a great plot and characterisation suitably graphic in places but the storyline unfortunately i found disjointed and difficult to follow a mishmash of events awkwardly stapled together
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Margaret atwood also seems to have an obsession with smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey which gets rather repetitive
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