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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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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 25/04/2013 22:19

:) I read one paragraph. It was more than enough.

AnyFucker · 25/04/2013 22:17

If you are basing your assessment of recent female "authors" on that person that "wrote" 50SOG then I might agree with you, Remus

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 25/04/2013 22:15

Because I am fed up of women either overwriting and trying to be all 'poetic' on the whole. Maybe I've chosen the wrong women in recent years.

FunnysInLaJardin · 25/04/2013 22:14

I like all of MA's books but as I get older find them a bit naive. Much prefer Rose Tremain

SorrelForbes · 25/04/2013 22:12

She's one of the few authors whose books I re-read frequently. HMT, Alias Grace, O&C and The Penelopiad are amongst her best IMHO. Cats Eyes really affected me. I wept.

HalfSpamHalfBrisket · 25/04/2013 22:12

steben Oh! I didn't know Oryx & Crake/After The Flood was going to be a trilogy. V Excited now! I bloody love Margaret Atwood.

janx · 25/04/2013 22:10

She's my mum

AnyFucker · 25/04/2013 22:09

What a strange pronouncement, to "not like books by women"

Why ever not ?

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 22:08

Don't worry, AF. I bet you wouldn't pronounce Y as "epsilon" in a French sentence, so you are already much better than DH Grin

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 25/04/2013 22:07

It's quite spare and doesn't waffle on in the way that I think some of her others do.

madammoose · 25/04/2013 22:07
  • delirious
RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 25/04/2013 22:07

I liked it - and (other than the lovely Jane) I tend not to like books by women much either (increasingly so as I get older and fussier/crabbier).

madammoose · 25/04/2013 22:06

I really enjoyed A Handmaid's Tale & just read Surfacing on holiday which was also good. It wasn't long so I even got to read a second book. We were only away for a week, so I was delerious with happiness - reading is the biggest activity I have missed since having my son in 2010.

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 22:06

Argh, critiquer = to critique, obviously.

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 22:05

No, I haven't read HMT. I read a bit about it and thought I wouldn't like it. I generally don't like books written by women, and among those hold a special distrust for the ones about feminist issues.

Do you really think I would like it?

AnyFucker · 25/04/2013 22:05

Oh dear Smile Blush

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 22:03

DH makes up phrases like that, and he has been living here for 10 years. Your "critiquer" illustrates one of funnier mistakes: In French, -er at the end of a verb makes it infinitive. Aller (to go), manger (to eat), critiqued (to critique).

You should see waiters cringe as he tries to order something from the menu Grin

MrsHoarder · 25/04/2013 22:02

I do like The Penelopiad. Think its my favourite (although my first was HMT of course). Cats Eyes made the most uncomfortable reading for me.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 25/04/2013 21:58

Have you not read The Handmaid's Tale, Cote? I think you'd like it.

AnyFucker · 25/04/2013 21:56
Grin
CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 21:53

No problem, just funny Grin

AnyFucker · 25/04/2013 21:46

I made it up, cote

You have a problem with that ? Grin

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 21:44

Oh and what does "critiquer du royale" mean? Grin

CoteDAzur · 25/04/2013 21:43

Ian McEwan annoys Remus, too. Maybe I should read some Margaret Attwood Wink

AnyFucker · 25/04/2013 21:29

You are entitled to your opinion Smile