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Margaret attwood

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marissab · 25/04/2013 17:54

I adore handmaids tale. I love the futuristic 1984-ish bleak future themes. Are her other books along the same themes? I don't know whether they'll live up to HMT.

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KittenofDoom · 25/04/2013 22:59

Fanx, but I'll stick with the Oxford English Dictionary.

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 22:51

Isn't that just what funnys said on this thread?

seeker · 25/04/2013 22:50

Isn't it odd how if somebody doesn't like a book written by a woman they "don't like books written by women". But if they don't like a book written by a man they don't like that book. Or even that author. They never say "I don't like books written by men"!

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 22:48

And that is my lesson of the evening to you native speakers Grin

Now... Would you say Margaret Attwood's writing style is similar to another better known sci-fi author?

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 22:44

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AnyFucker · 25/04/2013 22:39

My only criticism (in the non wanky version of the word) of Margaret Atwood is that she hasn't written enough novels

Catmint · 25/04/2013 22:38

Anything by MA is well worth a read. I did struggle a bit with The Penelopeiad. Sorry have no idea how to spell that.

KittenofDoom · 25/04/2013 22:37

Look, it was just a general comment, it wasn't aimed at anyone in particular. Flowers Language moves on, and the meanings of words change. I just don't like this particular usage that has crept in.

KittenofDoom · 25/04/2013 22:35

Criticism doesn't have to be negative. In its broadest sense, it is no different from a review. Literary critics, theatre critics, they have good things to say as well as bad.

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 22:35

AF Grin

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 22:34

I didn't say it does.

Unless it's you talking about Ian McEwan or Cloud Atlas Wink

AnyFucker · 25/04/2013 22:34

I think I shall throw some pies at you all now

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 25/04/2013 22:33

Literary criticism doesn't demand negativity though.

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 22:33

And AF wasn't even using it as a verb. She was using the word "critiquer" as "someone who criticises", although that word in French would be.....

A critique Grin

KittenofDoom · 25/04/2013 22:32

What was? I just hate "critique" used as a verb, it's such an X Factor sort of word. Grin

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 22:30

Kitten - A critique can be positive, in which case it is not a criticism.

So, you can't really say "A critique criticises something".

AnyFucker · 25/04/2013 22:28

kitten, it was a light-hearted, tongue in cheek comment

honest

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 22:28

If Ian McEwan is "obsessed with sex", what does that make Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski?

KittenofDoom · 25/04/2013 22:26

I just have to say that I hate the use of 'critique' as a verb. A critic criticises {something} and the resulting criticisms, taken together, form a critique.

There, now I've got that off my chest.

lottieandmia · 25/04/2013 22:25

I love Margaret Atwood. IMHO, The Hanmaid's Tale is surpassed by Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride.

AnyFucker · 25/04/2013 22:24

Actually, looking back many years, I think I had to have more than one jump at Oryx and Crake to get into it Smile

Since then, I have had several

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 25/04/2013 22:23

If you want obsessed with sex, try Pat Barker. 'Still Life' was beyond ridiculous.

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 22:23

AF - Because books by women authors tend to focus on feminine issues, bickering between women, and feeeeelings all of which I find profoundly uninteresting on every level.

I just checked my Kindle account now - Out of 37 books I have read last year, only 6 were written by women and I loved 2: Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Jill Bolte Taylor's My Stroke Of Insight, which is a brain scientist's auto-biographical account of her stroke and subsequent years of recovery.

FunnysInLaJardin · 25/04/2013 22:22

I dislike a lot of male authors in particular Ian McEwan who although is a good writer seems to have a very 'male' pov and is also obsessed with sex!

MrsHelsBels74 · 25/04/2013 22:19

Love Margaret Attwood although I struggled with Oryx & Crake. Favourites are Robber Bride, Blind Assassin & Edible Woman as I really related to the main character & always hoped for a 'Duncan' to save me (never happened & I had up do it myself).

Might give Oryx & Crake another go, I didn't know it was part of a trilogy.

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