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The Heart Goes Last
by Margaret Atwood
Atwood is hit or miss for me. I liked Alias Grace. I hated Handmaid's Tale (I know, boo, hiss, you have no taste, yadda yadda).
This book is as middle ground as they come, I think. I didn't like it. I didn't hate it. It just was.
It's got every offensive thing you can dare to think of, including bestiality. (It's Atwood, please, did you expect anything else?) It's full of cliche tropes, from Blond Bimbo to Sex Starved Man. It's got sex robots and evil corporations. It's got a generic dystopia economic crash and all the events that go with it, including probably bio diesel biker gangs.
It could have been so much shorter, so much tighter. Maybe even novella length, if we wanted to be real precise. So much of the book seems to be wandering, repetitive inner monologues from the protags. Even a little less of that would have made it stronger in my eyes.
But, "darn it all to heck," it's /fun/.
I almost want to shelve it as a comedy, that's how over the top it gets.
It's Margaret Atwood writes Stepford Wives. The characters are all complete tropes, but that's entertaining in its own way. Especially in the audiobook, which is read to PERFECTION. The two actors are so into the roles, especially Charmaine who is just hilarious to listen to while she plays up the Bimbo Blond to astonishingly glorious levels.
4 stars for the audiobook work. 2 stars for the rambling story. A solid 3, and I am content.
This book is as middle ground as they come, I think. I didn't like it. I didn't hate it. It just was.
It's got every offensive thing you can dare to think of, including bestiality. (It's Atwood, please, did you expect anything else?) It's full of cliche tropes, from Blond Bimbo to Sex Starved Man. It's got sex robots and evil corporations. It's got a generic dystopia economic crash and all the events that go with it, including probably bio diesel biker gangs.
It could have been so much shorter, so much tighter. Maybe even novella length, if we wanted to be real precise. So much of the book seems to be wandering, repetitive inner monologues from the protags. Even a little less of that would have made it stronger in my eyes.
But, "darn it all to heck," it's /fun/.
I almost want to shelve it as a comedy, that's how over the top it gets.
It's Margaret Atwood writes Stepford Wives. The characters are all complete tropes, but that's entertaining in its own way. Especially in the audiobook, which is read to PERFECTION. The two actors are so into the roles, especially Charmaine who is just hilarious to listen to while she plays up the Bimbo Blond to astonishingly glorious levels.
4 stars for the audiobook work. 2 stars for the rambling story. A solid 3, and I am content.