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Deeply and profoundly beautiful and honest.

Revisado: 12-04-21

Sinead says in her book something along the lines of: If you want to know me, listen to my music. I have always known this to be true. There have been some dark times in my life when her music has saved me.

This book is her story. It is the map of her life filled with beauty, horror, joy, sorrow, love, loss, a whole lot of self realization and a massive quantity of humor to boot, the life that evoked the gorgeous music that we know and love. Sinead reads her own book with a voice that is so human, so heartbreaking and so hopeful.

This is one of the most beautiful memoirs I have ever read.

...and PS. Prince is a d*ck! (you'll know what I mean when you get there).

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Disappointing.

Revisado: 01-27-20

I have been a HUGE fan of Atwood for more than 25 years. Half my life. I have consumed every book she has ever written. She has a way of writing that is visceral... In the past when I have read her work, I could taste smell and see her descriptive prose. "The Handmaids Tale" rocked my world as a 21 year old feminist. I have NOT watched the television series and was saddened that a generation of young women have missed out on the nuances and subtleties that you can really only draw from reading a book (or listening to an audiobook) when the writing is so excellent.

You can imagine how excited I was when I heard that she was coming out with a sequel. So excited that I even pre-ordered it.

"The Testaments" wasn't bad. It just wasn't great, it wasn't even good. I've read Atwood books for which I haven't considered the content to be great... but that was always overridden by the gorgeousness of the way she weaves words together. This was not so with this book.

With the popularity of "The Handmaids Tale" Hulu series, I wonder how much pressure was put on her to squeeze out more material so that Hulu could cash in. I also wondered how much the editors of "The Testaments" pushed her to "dumb down" the content to appeal more to a mass market.

Perhaps sometimes a masterpiece should just be left as is. The power and the message was all right there in "The Handmaids Tale" and didn't need to be added to.

If you want to read an example of the perfection of Atwood's incredible writing beyond "The Handmaids Tale", I recommend reading "Oryx and Crake" and the the other two books in that series. Profoundly gorgeous writing with a powerful underlaying message.

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Mildly entertaining, but didn't knock my socks off

Revisado: 11-14-19

I found that this book was a fun dabble in mythology but somehow the story always teetered on the surface of events. I found that it didn't get to the heart of the characters. I wanted to care about the characters... to empathize with the protagonist. It just didn't seem to take me there.

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I tried to like it....

Revisado: 09-04-19

I found this book to be very dry until about the last hour or two... where it suddenly heats up and in fact becomes quite gruesome. I kept hoping that it was going to hook me earlier... so kept listening. I felt like the book was too focused on weaving the twists and lost site of really allowing us to get to the heart of the characters... and therefore, I just didn't care.

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Delightful

Revisado: 09-04-19

The imagery in this book has stuck with me... A successful story which allows you to fall in love with the protagonist from beginning to end. A highly entertaining and emotional read.

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Perfection!

Revisado: 02-07-19

If I could give this book six stars in every category I would. I would also recommend listening to this book as an audiobook as opposed to the paper version. It only makes sense when you consider that Amanda Palmer is a performer... so guess what you get in the audiobook that you don't get with paper?... Performance.

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Astounding!

Revisado: 02-07-19

I absolutely 100% highly recommend this book. It is intelligent, thoughtful, full of history and fact... and it might just change your mind. I have recommended this book so many times to people, I ought to get commission!

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Outright weird!

Revisado: 02-07-19

I wouldn't say don't listen... but then again I wouldn't say do... it is a quirky and bizarre story. A bit confusing in the beginning... but stick in there and you'll start to figure it all out. If weird is what the author was going for, she attained it. It's hard to say really what I felt about this book.. I didn't love it... but I found it curious.

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One of my favorite audiobooks to date...

Revisado: 02-01-19

This beautiful story was exquisitely read... The characters were captivating, the story engaging and I really loved the historical element of these early feminists. A beautiful narrative revealing an early example of how the fight for equality for both race and gender are closely woven.

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Lives up to expectations.

Revisado: 12-13-18

I was so enthralled with Middlesex which in my mind is a perfect book/audiobook. I don’t love this one as much as Middlesex, but it comes very close. I look forward to another book from this author.

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