Margaret Atwood

[Anonymous]

One of the world's most prolific writers. When she's good she's good, but she's written a lot and I haven't loved everything. Here's my assessment of what I've read:

Loved: Handmaid's Tale, The Blind Assassin and Oryx and Crake

I also liked Hagseed, in part because I am a huge Shakespeare fan and a frequenter of the Stratford Festival in Canada.

The books I didn't like: The Heart Goes Last, The Testaments, and the remaining two of the Maddadamm Trilogy (I'm fine with Oryx and Crake as a standalone work).

[Anonymous]

I loved the Handmaid's Tale and I think it's brilliant. It's a great dystopian work like 1984 or Never Let Me Go.

I have not liked any other book of hers that I've read. The sequel to Handmaid's Tale was terrible. She is uneven at best.

[Anonymous]

I completely agree with your list! I thought the latter two Oryx and Crake books were…fine. I didn’t finish The Heart Goes Last. And I didn't like The Testaments much at all.

Blind Assassin is a wonderful book— very underrated. It’s a testament to her body of work that it flies under the radar, though.

[Anonymous]

I loved Cat's Eye.

[Anonymous]

yes and her poems are bollocks

[Anonymous]

Really liked Handmaid's Tale and thought Alias Grace was pretty good. Did not care for Oryx and Crake at all; Atwood's sci-fi dystopia was just too unbelievable and out there for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really liked Handmaid's Tale and thought Alias Grace was pretty good. Did not care for Oryx and Crake at all; Atwood's sci-fi dystopia was just too unbelievable and out there for me.

Did not like Oryx and Crake.

Adrian Tchaikovsky is another prolific sci-fi writer who is out-there OUT-THERE and somehow it works.

[Anonymous]

I read ‘Cat’s Eye ‘ more than thirty years ago and it still freaks me out.

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Anonymous wrote:Really liked Handmaid's Tale and thought Alias Grace was pretty good. Did not care for Oryx and Crake at all; Atwood's sci-fi dystopia was just too unbelievable and out there for me.

Forgot about Alias Grace. They did a great adaptation of it on Netflix a few years ago.

The Penelopiad is fun if you like Greek myth adaptations.

[Anonymous]

I've liked most of the Margaret Atwood books I've read--they often take a little bit for me to get into but they're ultimately very rewarding and satisfying reads. I did not enjoy Oryx and Crake at all, but that's the exception.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved Cat's Eye.

Me too. I'm devastated every time I read it, but I still do.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved Cat's Eye.

Yes, loves Cat’s Eye and some of her other earlier novels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loved Cat's Eye.

Me too

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Anonymous wrote:I loved the Handmaid's Tale and I think it's brilliant. It's a great dystopian work like 1984 or Never Let Me Go.

I have not liked any other book of hers that I've read. The sequel to Handmaid's Tale was terrible. She is uneven at best.

+1. completely agree. She got TDS and fell apart after that. The sequel
was one of the worst books I've ever read.

[Anonymous]

I really liked The Robber Bride, Cat's Eye, Alias Grace, the Blind Assassin, and Handmaid's Tale.