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Title: boring and pretentious
Review: A very disappointing and awfully boring novel. Almost all the characters are flat, the language desultory and the plot painfully viscous.To all those of you who seem to think that you have to either love this novel or else you didn't grasp the full depths of it : i can well see the depths Atwood AIMED at (just as her "Survival" project of establishing a genuine Canadian literature is rubbed in on every single page!), but I think she fails to convey them convincingly by literary means.The fact that she wrote it in 1972 may be an excuse for the overabundant psychoanalytic, feminist and nationalist elements in it, but it is no excuse whatsoever for the poor literary quality of this novel, which claims a lot more than it can keep.Highly pretentious and not recommendable.
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