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3.34 AVERAGE
3.34 AVERAGE
My first Margaret Atwood. Full of twists and turns. How does this woman come up with this stuff? Mind blown.
I really wanted to like this book, but the plot is just a mess. This book just doesn't know what it really wants to be about.
This had a promising premise, and started off kinda interesting, then it was all over the place, and I no longer knew what I was reading.
What started off as a near-future dystopian turned into a cliched action/spy movie with Elvis and Marilyn impersonators and sex robots, where the only motif for almost all of the characters is sex. It's incredible how Atwood managed to make all of her characters, with no exception, hungry for sex, whether it had a role in the plot or no.
I don't know if it was written with the intent of being read as a parody, but it disappointed me, despite the enticing first half which gave me "The Truman Show" vibe, and that what I was there for. But I felt like I was reading two different books mushed together.
I was feeling it might become one of my favorites this year, but I'm disappointed.
What started off as a near-future dystopian turned into a cliched action/spy movie with Elvis and Marilyn impersonators and sex robots, where the only motif for almost all of the characters is sex. It's incredible how Atwood managed to make all of her characters, with no exception, hungry for sex, whether it had a role in the plot or no.
I don't know if it was written with the intent of being read as a parody, but it disappointed me, despite the enticing first half which gave me "The Truman Show" vibe, and that what I was there for. But I felt like I was reading two different books mushed together.
I was feeling it might become one of my favorites this year, but I'm disappointed.
You really can't go wrong with a Margaret Atwood novel! In the vein of her recent speculative fiction such as Oryx and Crake, The Heart Goes Last takes us into a world quite like our own, but where capitalism and globalization have created an economic depression that makes people do very bad, very immoral things, all in the name of survival, progress, and money.
At the heart of the narrative is a married couple, Stan and Charmaine, whose love for each other is tested to its very limits. In terrible hardship, how does your love last for humanity and for your own spouse?
I thoroughly enjoyed The Heart Goes Last: it has a quick pacing and throws so many shockers that I didn't expect! Margaret Atwood is an incredibly precise and talented writer and her prose is so carefully chosen both for a pleasing story and for effect.
At the heart of the narrative is a married couple, Stan and Charmaine, whose love for each other is tested to its very limits. In terrible hardship, how does your love last for humanity and for your own spouse?
I thoroughly enjoyed The Heart Goes Last: it has a quick pacing and throws so many shockers that I didn't expect! Margaret Atwood is an incredibly precise and talented writer and her prose is so carefully chosen both for a pleasing story and for effect.
Super freaky and weird dystopian book that reminded me of a Black Mirror episode. But I enjoyed it. The last half started to lose me and felt almost like a joke, with sex robots, love potion lobotomies, Elvis Impersonators, and a Blue Man Group spin-off. (I guess you have to read it and find out how any of those things make sense.) There was certainly a lot to think about in terms of sex, misogyny, power, corruption/greed, ethics, and society, as is Ms. Atwood’s speciality. She either needs extensive therapy or is a genius, or probably both.
Not her best book, yet still a pretty decent read.
Another grim dystopia from the wonderful Margaret Atwood. What starts as a gripping, promising dark tale--Stan and Charmaine are living in their car so the promise of a planned community offering something better is pretty close to irresistible. The tale steadily heads down the rabbit hole until it becomes something ridiculous and I suddenly didn't care anymore and wanted it to be over. Elvis and Marilyn impersonators? Huh?
This book was just a straight fever dream. Couples alternate living spaces and working in a prison. Some lady is brainwashed to fall in love with a teddy bear…which she has sex with in a crate. Oh also there’s Elvis impersonators.
Atwood has a way of making the unthinkable, like financial collapse that makes people willing to sign their lives away, seem plausible. Yet this unsettling dystopia is almost whimsical with the Pleasantville-ish life outside of Positron and the abundance of Elvises and Marilyns. Odd but enjoyable.