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The Handmaid's Tale

With terrifying understatement, this novel narrates the life of a college-educated mother ripped from her career and family to be a slave, in a dystopian United States too plausible to be forgotten. Forbidden by a fanatical government to read, choose their own clothes or appear in public alone, handmaids fulfill an awful purpose as the servants of ...show more

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311 pages

Average rating: 7.76

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SwanseaCOA
Jan 11, 2024
8/10 stars
A friend of mine couldn't stop talking about this series on Hulu. Since I didn't have that streaming app, I decided to read the book to see what all the fuss was about. It's quite the story! At first you're shocked by the insanity of it all. None of this could ever happen now; it's so far fetched. While that may be true for the most part, there are parts of the book that make you think how fragile our current state of affairs is and how quic...read more
Craftygyrl82
Dec 26, 2023
10/10 stars
Loved the book! Makes you think if this is where the world is headed.
Anonymous
Dec 04, 2023
8/10 stars
I've always been more of a fan of dystopian vs utopian, probably because I'm a little on the pessimistic side. I remember reading this book either in my senior year of high school or my first year of college. Either way, I was young enough to be horrified at the picture it painted.

Reading this book also accomplished one of my goals this year as well: Two books need to be re-reads (The Stand is the other re-read).

So let's delve into Atwood's pictu...read more
han_elizabeth8
Nov 06, 2023
10/10 stars
Kdungan0902
Nov 03, 2023
7/10 stars
I liked the tv series so wanted to read the book… the perspective of it all being in Alfred’s head (her thoughts) and also talking directly to the reader was sometimes confusing. Is the testimony book the second book in the series and will finish out the plot?

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