3-29-09 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - Fiction

3 - The story was interesting but Atwood's writing style killed me. Using a first person narrative can be tricky and in this case, although it did make the story more personal, it was a very flighty (not ditzy) and disjointed narrator. That made finishing this book a trial of determination. However, the story itself of a patriarchal monotheocracy set after present day was interesting and not altogether improbable. Well thought out, this was a good book but not one I would read again.