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Title: Rare in dystopia novels
Review: Of all of the novels about dystopia that I have read, The Handmaid's Tale is definitely one of the top few. There are very few that are written with a woman character as the first-person narrator, which heightens the sense of social commentary that leaks from each page. For years, women have been forced to identify with male first-person narrators and we've become quite good at it. I know that there are some otherwise intellectual people who have a hard time identifying with a main character unless he/she is of the same gender as the reader, and that may account for some of the negative reviews of this book.
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