adastrame's reviews
263 reviews

Usually I'm apprehensive to anything that remotely resembles "chick lit", but as I soon learned, Margaret Atwood is something completely different. I have already read "The Handmaid's Tale", which I thought was brilliant - another reason why I chose to check out more stuff by Ms. Atwood.

This is a very ruminative story in a Mad Men-esque setting about how women are consumed by men back in the day (very much a product of its time).

I personally enjoyed the Toronto setting, even though the name of the city is never mentioned.

Wow, another one of those clear cases where the movies have pretty much nothing to do with the book! There's some wicked storytelling going on here (quite literally), considering this book has 4 (or possibly 5) layers to it. In places it was a bit tedious, in other places completely enthralling. I wouldn't really categorize it as a horror story, but rather as a story of grave misunderstandings.

Dafuq did I just read? (A typical Atwood book)

Meh. Meh meh, meh meh meh, meh.

Full of lengthy descriptions of scenes in films and TV shows, and very little analysis on the topic. Not really what I hoped for.

What a horrible, horrible way to desecrate the corpse of a long-dead story. The TV series was without a doubt one of the best ones out there and it had the best ending one could have hoped for.

These comics are a desperate attempt to create a new cash cow (which probably worked) out of it by inventing terrible and ridiculous story lines which don't even make sense and in some cases completely ruin the show.