# Margaret Atwood?

Category: book Nook

## Post 1 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2005 0:39:58

Hi All, Im' reading 'A Hand Maid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood and am really enjoying it. Hav any of you read anythign by her? Caitlin

## Post 2 by Star (Honorary Bitch of the Zone) on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2005 7:49:52

I have read that same book you are reading and liked it very much. It is not that far from becoming true with all the religious stuff that politicians in this country mix up with politics! Maybe a premonition of what might happen in the (near?) future. I have also read some of her short stories (an anthology) and I like them too. I like her writting style... not bad for a Canadian LOL just joking! Star

## Post 3 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2005 8:25:37

Ive read it and the story bored me to distraction I was desperate for something to happen..unfortunately it never did and the ending was somewhat inevitable...altogether a load of overhyped drivel.

## Post 4 by Star (Honorary Bitch of the Zone) on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2005 20:05:08

It could be because the story was meant to kind of 'speak' to women more than men... Maybe on the other hand, because you find it interesting to watch fast cars drive around and around and around and around and around the same eliptic circle... that is much more exciting by any comparison I assume! Yeah right... taking about overhyped drivel. Star

## Post 5 by fastfinge (I can't call it a day til I enter the zone BBS) on Thursday, 10-Feb-2005 12:10:08

True, but at least the cars crash into one another and people could die. Sick, but at least interesting. I dislike Atwood as well. Best scifi author currently out of Canada is Spider Robinson.

## Post 6 by anglwings303 (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Thursday, 10-Feb-2005 12:34:49

I actually recently read somethig by her. It was in a book called first words. Its a compilation of famous authors and their first writings. I had never read anything by her before, but the story she wrote when she was a teen was quite good, so i think i'll read some of her stuff.

## Post 7 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Thursday, 10-Feb-2005 13:06:43

would you enjoy watching a car travelling at 190mph crash in to wall and explode in flames while the driver sits unconscious in his cockpit covered in blood petrol and oil ..its bloody horrific you ignorant fool!.

## Post 8 by Susanne (move over school!) on Thursday, 10-Feb-2005 19:02:19

Hey!! First of all, it must be said that Canada has/has had some great, great, great authors!! (Just kidding... about my outrage, I mean, not Canadian literature :-)).
Yeah, I've read several of Atwood's books, and enjoyed most of them, even though she has a reputation as an inconsistent writer. I liked 'Alias Grace' a lot, and I also enjoyed Oryx and Crake. After I read it I found out that most Atwood readers found that book horrible :-).

## Post 9 by Wishes (Veteran Zoner) on Thursday, 10-Feb-2005 19:09:57

The book you are talking about is, in my humble oppinion, a fantastic piece of work.

## Post 10 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 12-Feb-2005 15:09:43

Ya i only have the books she wrote that are on Web-Braille. And stop talking about cars you lot lol jk! Anyway yeah. i like A Hand Maid's Tale so far and will probably read another MG book after that.

## Post 11 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 12-Feb-2005 15:10:13

MA sorry.