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Title: Trite and unrealistic.
Review: The blurb on the back of my copy reads something like, "...Atwood takes today's trends and extends them to their chilling and logical conclusions..."Excuse me, what? This book in no way convinced me that American society would end up in the bizarre '1984'-like ripoff presented here. To even suggest this as the logical future is completely shortsighted and ignores all advances women have made towards equality in the past hundred years or so.The entire book reads as an extremely heavy-handed attack on sexism. It fails to conjure up a realistic society, its characters defy common sense and reason, and it even falls flat in illustrating an interesting love story. The themes presented here have been analyzed a dozen times in far more interesting and coherent books. Skip this one.
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