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shayduhs 's review for:
Lady Oracle
by Margaret Atwood
I planned my death carefully; unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.
I chose the opening line of Lady Oracle for my review because it's easily the best line and the rest of the book fails to live up to the expectations set up by this introduction. Reading the first chapter, I really felt I was in for a special book, and I'm sad to say that's just not the case.
i can't really begin to explain what the book was about to be honest, or what the overall "point" of it was. I liked Atwood's writing style and I liked certain parts of the book and the bizarreness of the character but everything seemed so surface level that it seems the book keeps you at an arms length the entire time, refusing to let you connect with the characters nor care what happens to them. It's been a mere week since I finished this and I have absolutely no memory of how the book ended. Maybe that's on me and my attention span/memory, maybe it's on the story. Who knows.