Name: The Handmaid’s Tale
Rating: 4.056910569105691 (492 reviews)

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale

studied it at college. thought it was really good 👍

sunny

“How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation.”

sabiduría 

Patrick Book

Maybe 3.5. I was interested, but would've like to see the world built more in the story instead of tacked on in an over-explaining addendum.

Amelia C 

It was the 1st time i'd ventured into this genre- futuristic/almost sci-fi genre. I enjoyed it! Ms. Atwood certainly has a way of helping the reader imagine more vividly, and experience said imaginations with detail!

Sarah Sammis

I'm glad I finally got a chance to finish the book. I started reading this about 17 years ago and then didn't get to finish. I don't recall why or what happened to my copy of the book.

I enjoyed this book as much as Oryx and Crake. Atwood is best at describing the aftermath of a society going horribly wrong. I like that in this one she does let the reader know that life goes on outside of Gilead even if her characters are unaware of things have remained the same outside of their immediate existence. Most authors of this type of story neglect the bigger picture and I'm glad that she didn't.

Sunny

Read as a buddy read with James's Buddy Reading Club ✨

3.5 stars 
I was excited to try something different from what I usually read, and I found this to be very accessible. It was horrific to think that the events of this book were moved along so quickly and that a huge group of many people's rights could be snubbed out so easily.
There was no happy ending, and it wasn't difficult to see the cycle we were briefly shown throughout the book would continue on and on until it was just accepted no questions asked.
However I did find the ending rather lacking, like it was waiting to continue on for nothing.
Overall, it was very thought provoking and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who's intrigued with the premise.

Tobias V. Langhoff

A great piece of dystopian fiction. Like all the other great ones, such as 1984, it is an eerie story because of its plausibility. In the near future, the US has become a theocracy and institutionalized patriarchy. Fertility is at an all-time low because of biological warfare and/or irradiation, and fertile low-caste women are slaves who bear women for the upper echelons. The protagonist is one of such “handmaids”, who tells her story in the first person.

I read this to prepare for the upcoming Hulu TV series, which, judging from the trailer, looks very promising. I also listened to this as an audiobook, which was fitting because it’s a recorded story. Claire Danes does a great narration.

Recently, a short piece of addendum material to the epilogue was released: http://ew.com/books/2017/03/29/margar...

The Handmaid’s Tale

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