I’m thinking about reading A Handmaid’s Tale soon. Is it worth it? Is it slow in the beginning?
I’m thinking about reading A Handmaid’s Tale soon. Is it worth it? Is it slow in the beginning?
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I read it and recommend everyone read it, as well, but it definitely has a distinctive style. It took a little
While to get into the flow of it, but a worthwhile read!
I LOVED it!!! i can’t even remember if it was slow at the beginning tbh, i read it all in one day
It was good but i wouldnt re-read it ??♀️
sooooo good.
Didn’t like the book.
I started it a long time ago and thought it was really slow in the beginning, but also had no idea where it was going. I didn’t get very far into it. But now that I’ve seen the series and know the premise, I think I’d give it another shot if I fell into a book hole.
It’s slow, but I still enjoyed reading it. I did watch the TV adaptation on Hulu first. I enjoyed both as separate entities since the show and the book vary.
Definitley worth the read
I am going to be the minority here but I didn’t like the book at all. 🙁
Michele Meyer Hagenlock I’m curious to know why you didn’t like it. Just so I k ow before getting into it. Try not to be so spoilery please
@Tierney it was the whole premise of the book. It just felt personal for me.
It’s one of my absolute favorites.
Just keep in mind it’s not a story (you aren’t going to get that start to finish satisfying read you are used to). It’s a presentation of a “historical document”. So you have to read it objectively. But it’s very very good.
@Michaela thank you, I’ve had experiences where I read a book wrong ?
There’s not really a way to read it wrong, but most of the gripes Ive seen on it are because of the way it’s presented and because they were expecting a start and ending kind of story and it doesn’t give you that. So i like to tell people, they might not love the format a head of time.
I really didnt like it. we studied that, 1984 and a clockwork orange in my final year of high school and i honestly just didnt get into it at all.
It’s fantastic! A truly frightening vision