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Originally Posted by CharredScribe
I've met her once, very briefly, and she seemed nice but that's all I can say about her personally.
I like most of her books (although I struggle to enjoy Surfacing, which was a very odd text). I find that her books can be quite different from each other, so hard to pin them down. For example, Alias Grace is historical fiction, and you are left to draw some of your own conclusions - it is sort of a murder mystery. I like her MaddAddam trilogy, which is a mix of sci-fi and dystopian / speculative fiction. My favourite may be The Handmaid's Tale, which is also dystopian, and a little frightening when you see how attempts to control women's fertility is still such a big deal 30 years after the book was written. |
I'll have to try something some time. It sounds a bit "heavy" (not sure of the word) but maybe I'll try a preview sometime.