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At least, I thought it was great. It was "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. Sort of a sci fi type of thing. Set in a society where the birth rate has plummeted and they've taken extreme measures. Check it out!
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I just may. I read Surfacing by her in a lit. class last year. It was interesting, well-written.
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Margret Atwood! Yeah! one of our only great canadian authors. Although I've only red "Alias Grace". It wasn't too bad, and she is canadian so yeah! Posts: 197 | Registered: Feb 2004
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I've never heard of Louise Erdrich... *waits to get slugged for her ignorance* But I just was proud to have Margret atwood as a fellow canadian. There aren't many TALENTED well-known authors form canada.
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Gwan, I took a Canadian Lit. course in college. I was also introduced to Jefferson Davies, whose books I find extremely challenging and interesting. Go Canada!
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There are alot of really funny comedians though. Aparrently being confined to the indoors for 7 months out of the year really hones your ability to entertain.
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If you haven't read Louise Erdich, start with Tracks. It's by far my favorite of her many excellent books.
I'm not a huge Margaret Atwood fan, but I admit that it has less to do with the quality of her writing (while I haven't read The Handmaid's Tale in 10 or 12 years, I liked it well enough when I read it), and more to do with her insufferable snobbery when it comes to Science Fiction. Seriously, I have rarely read an interview with her in which she failed to say something disparaging about the genre, and emphasize that she didn't write such tripe. Instead, she says, she writes fiction with science in it.
If you'd like, I'll go looking for some of her more absurd comments.
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I was under the impression that Louise Erdich was an American who has written stories that take place in Canada.
And I can't believe that we're over 10 posts into a thread that started off being about Margaret Atwood and nobody has complained about her being anti man yet. That's usually one of the first things that's said about her!
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Erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota (if my memory of english classes serves me correctly)
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I think Canada produces superior musicians too. I mean - Sarah McLachlan, Barnaked Ladies and Alanis? Who can argue?
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I'm an Atwood fan. Apart from "The Handmaid's Tale" she doesn't really write SF, it's more magic realism, I think. My particular favourite is "Cat's Eye" but I also liked "The Edible Woman." I wasn't so keen on "The Blind Assassin" for some reason... not sure why, just couldn't get into it so easily.
Robertson Davies is great as well. I read the Deptford Trilogy waaaay back when I was 14 or so and loved it then, and I'm sure I'd get still more out of it now.
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I have loved everything I have ever read by Atwood. I was especially fond of her latest, Oryx & Crake. Very futuristic and apocolyptic. And a little twisted which I always find a treat. It just came out in paperback last month so go try it! Posts: 601 | Registered: Sep 2002
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He was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) but he's been here long enough for us to claim him as our own.
One of the few authors out there whose works are better when read aloud than to read them yourself. In my humble opinion that is.
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