The Handmaid's Tale

This was a very interesting book. I like to read dystopia books because I like to see the ideas that people come up with for possible futures. I don't know if Atwood wrote this as presenting a real possibility with a hard clear lesson in it or if it was more just a story about human nature. Regardless, I enjoyed it. The context of the story is a little horrifying and it certainly makes you think about hows things are versus how they could be. It makes you appreciate things you never really appreciated before. I do recommend this book, perhaps more for the the female side of the species, as they will relate to it more than males. But it's a great thought provoker for everyone.

This is one of the first books I read as I began to move on from the realms of young adult fiction. As such, it was the first time I encountered such distinct stylization, and I had no problem absorbing it, although I know other people have reported discomfort with Atwood's style.Offred's narration starkly conveys her numbness and clearly displays her coping strategy, which is to get through one day at a time as she attempts to fend off a deluge of overhwhelming memories of normal times. The tone of the book is startingly immediate, which gives the flashback segments a dreamlike quality. This is an interesting reversal, where the bizarre totalitarian society in which Offred lives feels more realistic than the descriptions of her previous life, which was as normal as any contemporary American woman's.I would recommend this with no reservations, except to say that for some, Atwood's work may be an acquired taste. Take it on its own terms, not as some call to arms or some manifesto on women's liberation. It merely takes one facet of life and spins it to an extreme alternate future in the spirit if "imagine if..."

Part of me wants to give five stars for the insights, the prose and the general cleverness, but I'm sure I'd have to read it again to get all of it, especially since a lot is explained in the final chapter. I'm the sort of impatient reader who would prefer to read that bit first. Instead the reader gets dripfed information about the setting. Also, this is probably not a book to be enjoyed, as such, and I feel quite sad that this story is as relevant in 2012 as it was in the eighties when Atwood wrote it. Scary stuff.

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[The Handmaid's Tale] by [[Margaret Atwood]] is set in a dystopian future America where religious zealots have taken over. Among the changes made, the book focuses on the removal of all rights from women, who are required to devote themselves completely to domestic tasks, are "guarded" at all times, allowed outside only under strict control and forbidden to read. The declining birthrate among caucasians had been one issue leading to the take over and now procreation is a high priority. Women are assigned to a class which determines the details of their lives. These are aunts, wives/daughters, handmaid's, domestic servants, econowives, and unwomen. Handmaid's are women assigned to households without children to bear babies for them. Their names are taken away and they are known only as Of(name of the master of the household). Our heroine is "Offred". Babies are either "keepers" or "shredders". The story is gripping and the characters well-drawn in a sort of surreal way.

I read this years ago but it's still fresh in my mind. Frightening because it seems so possible, especially in this President's (Bush) administration where we have given up more of our liberties for security. Whenever I hear evangelical Christians spouting their politics, I cringe, and it's because in the back of my mind, I am thinking of this book. I was so disturbed by it that when the movie came out I couldn't see it and never have. But it's a brilliant imagining of the future. Brilliant and scary.

This is a haunting tale.

Women are rounded up, assessed for fertility, compliance and therefore worth and assigned to castes accordingly. Told as the solution to declining birth rates put forward by Christian doctrine, it feels very much dystopian but if it were to be told under the backdrop of an extreme Islamist regime it wouldn't seem unplausible.

The Handmaids are blinkered by head dresses, covered up from head to toe and are not allowed to read, look at themselves in the mirror or even to speak freely. Any infraction is instantly punishable by death. They have only a limited number of chances to prove their worth by providing their assigned Commanders and their wives with children or they are rebranded as un-women and sentenced to a fate where they work until they die.

It was terrifying to read, it was bleak and as I was reading it I kept thinking... what if?

The ending is ambiguous but that didn't bother me so much, some stories are better when you don't know where everybody ends up, it allows the reader to come to their own conclusion.

I have had this book on my reading list for years. Reminded me a great deal of Farenheit 451. Great read and really confronting at times.

The book was a scary look at what society can become when people are afraid to question and simply accept what they are told. The establishment of the Gilead government could have been easily stalled in the first few days/weeks but people were willing to sit and watch and see what would happen.

This book borrows the worst stylings of dystopian novels without adding anything new other than a different political worry. Like other poor dystopian fiction, it simply exaggerates ideas of certain elements of current societies/politics/culture becoming much more central and legally embedded. The characters and story are nearly nonexistent, and it is therefore dull.

Some of the setting/atmosphere and theme is interesting, so I almost gave it two stars. Some friend disagree with me strongly about this book, so I accept (as I often do with books), room for error in my opinion of the book.

Have to say, I'm liking the Audible series performed by actors. Claire Danes does a great job of bringing Atwood's world to life, and Atwood, as always (in my experience) has these brilliant observations along the way that cannot be conveyed through any plot summary, though the plot is compelling with a 1984 flavor, too. So far, I have only read Atwood's speculative fiction (Handmaid, Maddaddam series), nonfiction (Payback), and myth retelling (The Penelopiad)...I'm looking forward to her other novels.

Chilling tale which provides a chance to think about what and how you believe we should exist as people and society.

The story is of and by a woman. A woman who has had her freedom stolen and replaced with sanctioned sexual servitude. Set in the future, in what was the state of Maine, society has fractured. Religious zealots have taken over and dictated that the recent trend of infertility and deformed births will be rectified by creating the position of 'the Handmaiden'. These rare gems, fertile women, are billeted to powerful men whose wives want a baby. They have ceremonial sex and await impregnation before being moved elsewhere for the same routine. The wider society is heavily stratified and restricted to the point of armed defense and walls. 'The colonies' are where you are sent if you break the rules, and there you die from over work, under nourishment or radiation poisoning. We get all this information drip-fed to us through the life of our hero, the handmaiden. Seeing as she is old enough to remember freedom, she reminisces throughout the story. In this way we are able to get a full picture of life.It is clever, and the information cleverly dispersed. It raises so many issues about personal freedom, government and conflicting ideologies. I am so glad this book finally got to the top of my tbr pile. I hope it gets to the top of yours soon too.

A gripping fantasy about a dystopian north America in the not too distant future where an oppressive form of religion has taken hold. Passages of the Bible are taken out of context to justify the most appalling crimes, particularly against women, but also anyone who dissents. Offred tells her story as a handmaid to a powerful commander, though as she points out there may be flaws in the telling. The level of strain she is under really comes across and we're left wondering how she holds things together. The underground resistance movement provides a glimmer of hope, and indeed may turn out to be her salvation. Excellent but also deeply disturbing.

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Somehow it strongly reminds of the Muslim world. But this can also happen very quickly in a totalitarian left-wing society. Nevertheless, too much feminism in 2019.

I read this book after watching the first season of the Hulu series “The Handmaids Tale”. It did not disappoint. The TV series followed the book better than other adaptations. I’m looking forward to the next two seasons of the show, but I’m disappointed that Margaret Atwood didn’t write sequels to “The Handmaids Tale”, so the show could follow her novels instead of deriving their own ending to the tales of the handmaids.

Eye opening chagllenging read. Make ayou think about what you don't know and re think about what you did. Please have patience and give it a chance.

Equally beautiful and horrifying, I thoroughtly enjoyed this book. Excellent read.

was a good book. hulu show was better in my opinion. interesting story

This book was simply amazing. The way the world was explained with such detail while also leaving many things up to the imagination was breathtaking. By giving us just enough information we were never over loaded with the amount of facts and it also allowed the reader to imagine the world for themselves. I had to read this book for my summer reading and it has been the best summer reading book for school I have ever read.

I was hooked from the moment I started reading this.
A haunting read.

The concept is good and makes you think how this applies or could be applied to our current ‘world’. It’s scary and terrifying to think that this COULD happen as the book was so realistic.

I just find that the protagonist’s narration scattered, slow and boring. I know that this books, even though written in the 80s, addresses current issues that women face today. It is just that writing is not for me.

2.5 stars

Interesting but somewhat sedated, lacks the adventure and statements of 1984 or fahrenheit 451. It is very eloquent but it is left fairly unresolved and the last chapter doesn't really help, if anything its just out of place. Overall good, but in not entirely sure why its a best seller.

Really captivating story full of emotion. The plot is incredibly dynamic and leaves you with a lot of things to imagine yourself

Had a wonderful time reading it. Really enjoyed the writing and I was immediately immersed whenever I picked it up

really great and interesting story. it really makes one think.

It seems eerily prescient reading The Handmaid's Tale given the imposing new regime of a Trump presidency in the U.S.

As relevant, if not more so, as when it was written. My 30 year-old daughter has just discovered The Handmaids Tale and is completely absorbed. Imagine this book from her perspective.
Prophetic and profound.

It is like an artificial time travel into future, then back to the past, which is our present.