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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: As an avid reader of historically based fiction, and an advocate for victims of gender based violence, this book did a marvelous job of telling an interesting story, doing justice to the experience of violence, and enthralling the reader! I have recommended it to many!
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I'VE EVER READ!!
Review: Margaret Atwood is truely one of the most gifted writers of all time. This book is so incredibly wonderful - it's like word candy in your mouth. I would recommend this book to anyone, appropriate for all ages.
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Summary: remarkably strange
Review: it was boring at the beginning but it got really interesting as I read on. I recomend this book to any one.
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Summary: One of the best books I've read in a long time
Review: Alias Grace is a very serious but wonderfull book. Grace is as real as a character can get. Ms. Atwood has written many fine books but this one is the best so far. I haven't read all of them yet. Lady Oracle was given to me by a friend and since then I've read six more books by Margaret Atwood. Buy this book.
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Summary: One of my favourite books ever!
Review: As a teenager I use to enjoy reading the books imensely and very passionately.It was at that late-night hours that I felt the magic of good storytelling.For many years I didnt have that good old feeling and thanks to Margaret Atwood,my cheeks were burning with excitment again - this book is so masterfully written, that I bought it as a present to many of my friends.
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Summary: One of the best books I have read in a long time
Review: I have read Atwood before, but I had forgotten what an excellent writer she is. This book captures your attention from the start, and you just want to keep reading. The combination of fact and fiction makes the story even more interesting. All the characters come to life, especially Grace, and the sub-plot of the Doctor is wonderful as well. If you love Atwood, True Crime stories, or just want to read a good book for a change, this book is for you!
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Summary: An enthralling story
Review: Through the central character Atwood has created a beautiful, compelling book. Grace is one of my favourite fictional characters (albeit loosely based on a real person). The author has taken a lot of licence with her heroine - her words are those of a better educated, more experienced woman than Grace could have been given her impoverished history - but the book is better for it. Grace is sly, witty (in a very dry way) and far too clever for the feeble Doctor Simon, her co-accused McDermott and the legions of do-gooders around her. Is she guilty? Does it matter? Sometimes it seems that Grace is looking back with a twentieth century perspective: "who knows where we will all be in a hundred years?" she asks. One suspects that she does know. The detailed re-creation of the smells and sights of 1850s Canada adds a lot to what is - with hindsight - rather a thin plot. Atwood gives us most of the plot early on and then (like her heroine) teases us into thinking we are going to get a lot more, that the holes will be filled in. One might say it has too much of the airport bookshop historical thriller - the inevitable brutal drunken father, backstreet abortions, roguish men, hysterical women, extreme poverty, etc - but the book offers a lot more than these standard ingredients.It lacks the intensity and depth of character of Cat's Eye, but it is an exciting read and the pages turn very quickly as we wonder what will happen. Given the slightness of plot, this sense of excitement says a lot about Atwood's great skill as a storyteller. Free the Richmonmg Hill One!
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Summary: Can enough good things be said?
Review: Margaret Atwood is simply awesome! Pretty much anything by her is great, and this was superb. Other great Atwood reads: The Handmaid's Tale, or the more obscure Good Bones and Simple Murders. Both are excellent. Alias Grace is fabulous.
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Summary: Absolutely Fantastic
Review: It is a really good book, once u pick it up u cant drop it!!!
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Summary: The best STORY Atwood has written
Review: Although I've been a fan of Margaret Atwood's for many years (as any good Canadian woman should be!), I usually enjoyed her actual writing--her poetic turn of a phrase, her quirky descriptions--more than the plots of her novels. Alias Grace shows her as a masterful storyteller. The first time I read it I could hardly put it down, so anxious was I to learn the ultimate fate of Grace Marks, but forced myself to read it more slowly to savour living in the Victorian times Atwood re-created in palpable detail. As soon as I finished, all I wanted to do was go back to the beginning and start over. For a month I resisted, and then re-read it slowly, studying her art of writing. A couple of years later now, I have re-read it for a third time, and am still in awe of the multiple layers of this story, the painstaking research into the life of Grace Marks, the simple language used by the uneducated Grace that yet reveals her very clever mind, the delightful overlay of quilting patterns, the details of domestic work in Victorian Canada, the emergent state of psychiatry, and the skillful unfolding of an unpredictable plot. The variety of forms of writing is also intriguing, the monologues of Grace and the correspondence between Dr. Jordan and his friends and family. Alias Grace is a true masterpiece, the most brilliant Canadian novel ever, I would say.
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