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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. -Virginia Woolf, Modern Fiction
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Atwood is one of those authors who I have tried and tried to like. I've given her many chances. And yet I still finish each book and think, "Wow, I really didn't like that." However, I think she's an excellent writer. Whenever I hear some of her writing quoted I think, "That's so interesting...I never thought of it that way." It's been a while, but let's see. I read Cat's Eye but don't remember much. I hated the Robber Bride. I enjoyed The Handmaid's Tale, but it's another dystopia novel so even though it's good, how many dystopia novels do you need to read before you get it? I started Oryx and Crake one day at Barnes and Noble. I was drawn in, but didn't read it because of my Atwood history. That would be my vote though. I will credit her with the possibility of writing something I would truly recommend.
Margaret Atwood, why can't I love you?
ooh! Yes! Oryx and Crake is a great one. I really enjoyed it, it's so weird and wonderful. I tried starting the blind assasin but never was able to really get going with that one.
I started O & C on tape one long ago car trip to minnesota and wasn't really feeling it. But hopefully that was because of the driving and not the story or the writer for that matter.
i love a handmaids tale of course, but it is a dystopia novel so if thats not what you are looking for i recomend the blind assasin. even people who don;t necesarilly love her stories at least appreciate her writing so i would definitely give her a try.
the blind assassin. it be good. i'm drunk, but it is a good book
I loved Oryx and Crake, as you know. I also liked Alias Grace, although I didn't love it and it took awhile to get into it...
Forget that Atwood crap altogether.
Read For Whom the Bell Tolls instead.
No dystopian society here, real flesh and blood combat between the reds and the fascists and a real man's book too.
jesse ventura, your a dumbass.
does this seem like an apporpriate discussion to join with urging of "flesh and blood combat between the reds and the fascists and a real man's book too" ?
seriously.
there is really only so many 'real man's books' one can read, right?
right.
The Edible Woman, I've been meaning to read it for a long time now, and and btw...ran across your blog and realize this was from almost a year ago, but what the hell.
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