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Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood

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laura_lupin's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny inspiring sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

askmashka's review

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adventurous reflective medium-paced

ruthlessly's review against another edition

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3.0

Okay, this is more like a 3.5. I didn't like it as much as The Robber Bride or The Blind Assassin, which are both 4/5 so I felt bad giving it that, but I definitely liked it more than a fair few books I've rated 3 so??? Sliding scale.

This isn't a review, whatever.

taxidermies's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

raloveridge's review against another edition

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4.0

A good book, but not a great book. A fascinating tale of a woman who writes "lurid Gothics" in her spare time, becomes a fraud of a poet overnight and fakes her own death to escape her multiple, bizarre affairs (including one with a man named, I kid you not, the Royal Porcupine).

Somehow, Atwood manages to make this sound a lot less zany than it comes off. The ending has an unresolved quality that is very symptomatic (I feel) of Atwood's earlier novels. A brilliant read, flaws and all.

menniemenace's review against another edition

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3.0

The story wasn't going one way, it was going between the child struggling with obesity and a bit cruel mother, the weight- losing teen/young woman, the mistress by accident, the married woman, the cliche writer, the mistress again, the dead woman... you can't know which Joan -or even Joan at all- you're reading about.

Nevertheless, Margaret Atwood is an amazing writer and her style is so charming.