The Heart Goes Last : A Novel (Paperback)

from bibleblaster

Atwood does her usual excellent job of extrapolating from current realities to create a troubling future. This is no Maddadam trilogy, though. The characters are rather shallow in the manner of too many black comedies. I generally love Atwood, but this wouldn't be my top recommendation.

from dwcofer

This is not one of Atwood's best books, but pretty good, nonetheless. The story was sufficiently engaging to keep me from DNFing it, but the story became slow as it bogged down in the middle, wandering about aimlessly and repetitively. The characters were developed well enough, but could have b...

from nivramkoorb

Margaret Atwood is one of my favorite authors. His Maddadam trilogy is one of the best series of books that I have ever read. She followed that up with 'The Stone Mattress" which was excellent. This book if it was not done by Margaret Atwood might have gotten a slightly higher rating. This is a d...

from TerriBooks

I never really "got" this book. Was it some sort of dystopian future? Or a comedy? The whole "Elvises" and "Marilyns" thing was just so weird. And maybe I missed something, but I never understood how putting half the population in prison makes an economy work. The whole thing just never made much...

from kalky

Imagine my excitement when I received an early reviewer copy of Margaret Atwood's new novel! Imagine how thrilled I was to read this description: "Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly ...