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Title: Overlong, Boring, Pretentious and Smug: Atwood Does it Again
Review: Some twenty years after swearing off Canada's most bloodless writer (and that's saying something!), a friend convinced me to give Atwood's newest a shot. Well, she hasn't improved at all, unless you count her typing speed (although even that's probably owed merely to more advanced technology). Atwood as always presents a completely miserably, downtrodden life, where the characters have no hope for redemption, let only a chuckle. Whereas other writers with bleak views at least give the reader bones like wit (Martin Amis), raunch (Charles Bukowski), or poetry (Alice Munro), Atwood just serves it up bland and humorless. Call me again in another 20 years.
