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So, so fun. Handmaid's Tale set in 1820's Canada, but better written.
— Jun 20, 2010 01:29PM
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So, so fun. Handmaid's Tale set in 1840s Canada, but better written.
— Jun 20, 2010 01:30PM
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Jun 20, 2010 07:52PM
YESSSS OMG I'm so glad you're reading this, I liked it so much.
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It is TEH perfect classy trash, right now. So absorbing. I am drinking in every period detail like it's BOURBON.
ZOMG YESSSSS this is actually my favourite Atwood and I wrote a LONG review of it years ago. I should dig it up and post it here.
Right? This is the book she should have won all the awards for, man.
AB wrote: "Right? This is the book she should have won all the awards for, man."YES. It's so much better than stupid Blind Assassin, which I couldn't finish (and she handles gothic tropes so much better than pulp, anyway).
Yes, please dig up and post! I meant 1840s Canada (blush).
Oh, and AB, will you please tell me just once more what is the book I should read that has plagues in it? The public library has it, I just need to remember to put it on hold...this kind of novel is just so beautifully ANAESTHETIC right now. It does me powerful good, probably even more so than $3/pill Zyprexa. It's like Tipping the Velvet or Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, or or or. Just SO good. Balm to the wounded brain, &c.
unnarrator wrote: "Yes, please dig up and post! I meant 1840s Canada (blush)."Aww, I will! It was fun to write about.
The Dress Lodger, by Sheri Holman. A better book than anything with plagues and prostitutes and Symbolic Babies in it has any right to be, or maybe my memory is just coloured by the total astonishment I felt at, like, fourteen-fifteen, reading that and marveling that the author had pulled off the faux-Dickensian narration that looked so complicated and felt so sophisticated to me.
And I actually really liked Blind Assassin, a lot, but ultimately consider it to be the inferior book because its twist is such that you can't read it twice. Whereas I had to read AG twice just to figure out which direction my head was screwed on after it was over.
