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What is your fave Margaret Atwood book?  

post #1 of 24
10/20/08 at 11:06am
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My Mum asked me this the other day and it was hard to pick one. I have read quite a few. I think Handmaid's Tale or The Edible Woman might be my fave. Anyone else here love Atwood?
post #2 of 24
10/20/08 at 4:23pm
I really liked "A Handmaid's Tale" but I could never get into any of her other books. Too weird.
post #3 of 24
10/20/08 at 4:45pm
I love love love her!

Cat's Eye is far and away her best work. Really, really the best. I've read a lot of other things, and Handmaid's Tale comes close, but the more sci-fi-ish stuff is kind of meh, and some of the early fiction just isn't that great.

But Cat's Eye. If you like Margaret Atwood, read Cat's Eye.
post #4 of 24
10/20/08 at 4:47pm
Hard to say, although I have yet to check out The Edible Woman.

I think The Handmaid's Tale was so brilliant, and should be standard literature curriculum. But the one I've read three times, and I think about it quite often, is The Blind Assassin.

Don't you wonder what she's like in real life?
post #5 of 24
10/20/08 at 4:53pm
So many. I don't know how to pick.

I really like Cat's Eye, Robber Bride, Alias Grace.
post #6 of 24
10/20/08 at 5:05pm
The Handmaid's Tale for me!
post #7 of 24
10/20/08 at 5:43pm
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Cat's Eye is great. The only book I really didn't enjoy of hers was "Bodily Harm", found that one kind of boring but still ok. I have seen her interviewed and she's very interesting.
post #8 of 24
10/20/08 at 7:34pm
Alias Grace. I could read that one again and again.
post #9 of 24
10/20/08 at 10:25pm
The only one I didn't like was Life Before Man. Otherwise, I have every much enjoyed her work.
post #10 of 24
10/20/08 at 10:36pm
I love The handmaid's Tale.
post #11 of 24
10/21/08 at 3:38pm
I found The Handmaid's Tale riveting. I still think of it sometimes when I go to use an ATM. ;-)

I read Cat's Eye, but don't remember a single thing about it.
post #12 of 24
10/21/08 at 4:35pm
Alias Grace.
post #13 of 24
10/21/08 at 4:36pm
Handmaids Tale. Although I have not yet read Edible Woman.
post #14 of 24
10/21/08 at 8:16pm
Oooh yeah, Alias Grace! I loved that one too!

I liked Blind Assassin okay -- didn't love it, but still a very good book. Life Before Man was my big "meh" book of hers.
post #15 of 24
10/21/08 at 8:30pm
"A Handmaid's Tale" is my #1 favorite book of ALL.TIME.

It's standard reading for the 11th graders at my high school, and I remember being FLOORED by it then. Every time I read it, it's better and better. And freakin' scary now.:
post #16 of 24
10/22/08 at 6:23am
I've only ever read The Handmaids Tale... I have browsed some of her other books, but never bought one.

Which one do you recommend?
post #17 of 24
10/22/08 at 11:03am
I like them all, but I'm partial to Oryx and Crake. I think about it every time I pass a McDonald's (chickie nubbins). I also really loved Alias Grace and The Blind Assassain. Has anyone read The Penelopiad yet?

I think that Handmaid's Tale should be required reading for life. Everyone, everywhere. I love it and find it utterly terrifying all at the same time.
post #18 of 24
10/22/08 at 11:10am
I've read the Penelopiad. I liked it, but it isn't my favourite,.
post #19 of 24
10/22/08 at 11:23am
My favorite was Oryx and Crake.
post #20 of 24
10/24/08 at 12:40am
Alias Grace and RObber Bride. ALso LOVE Small bones and simple murders (snippets, SUPER funny in such a sharp way...very MA) but not sure I got the title exactly right
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