Is her stuff any good?

What's her best?

hairball. i forget the collection, but its amazing.

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Almost all of her work is brilliant. Well, in my opinion at any rate, for what it's worth.
I'd say the best work to read to get into her is Surfacing, but I'd put The Handmaid's Tale as her best (and "most important", whatever that means) work, and The Blind Assassin as a close second. Some of her most recent stuff can veer close to "chick lit", but it's better than that.

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I've read the Edible Woman (obviously) it's her first novel ... and its rolling on the floor hilarious. I've also read the Handmaid's Tale and Cat's Eye. The Handmaid's tale is good, but I not nearly is entertaining as the Edible Woman. Cat Eye's could be really funny but really melancholic, but still a really good book. I would probably read Edible Woman first, because its a really great book and its her first book. I've also heard good things about Alias Grace and the Blind Assassin and Oryx & Crake. My partner has read Surfacing, and he said it was "ungodly and depressing", so it's probably a chick book...(i still plan on reading it). So Atwood is great, I'm sure you'll enjoy her work.

Oh, well I'm going to be controversial and say I hate her.
Everyone I know and trust likes her, so I've tried reading a few of her books, but she irritates me. I read her short story Bluebeard's Egg by accident while doing some research on the different versions of Bluebeard, and places in which it is alluded to, and I loathed it.

I find her constant use of the present tense quite tiresome too.

I could probably explain myself properly if I had some examples... I'm going to try and find Bluebeard's Egg and get back to you.

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my favorite book of all time is cat's eye. it is very sad but i like that kind of stuff.

i also recommend wilderness tips and bodily harm.

Of the ones i've read, "Blind Assassin" is the best. "Alias Grace" is also wonderful.

She is fucking mind blowing.
Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride and Alias Grace are all favourites of mine.

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Ive read and liked: The Blind Assasin, The Robber Bride, Cat's Eye, Alias Grace and Oryx and Crake (that one's an achievement because I hate books of that genre)

I'm ambivalent about: Lady Oracle and Surfacing

I loathed: The Handmaid's Tale and The Edible Woman

My mum made me read Cat's Eye when I was about 11/12 because she said it reminded her of her childhood in Canada (the background descriptions, not the bullying!) and I loved that so moved on. Now I'm a bit older I find some of her stuff a bit monotonously feminist (not that I hate feminist literature, just that this is sometimes a bit repetitive and some of her characters are so weedy I want to slap them) but I still think they are good books and worth reading.

Insominia:

Question for you: What do you hate about the Edible Woman?

Please digress!

it's from wilderness tips, and cat's eye is also excellent.

Well I might have just been a bit young for it, I read it when I was about 14, but I can just remember hating all the characters and thinking "nothing happens in this book". I was so disappointed, I'd loved all her previous stuff so much and then this book was just so pointless, unfunny and annoying.

every couple months or so, I check Blind Assassin out from the library because I love the beginning...and then i try to read it and never get past the first couple chapters =(

Blind Assassin, Oryx & Crake and Handmaid's Tale all 5 stars.

Meh on the rest. But I adore her style.

My flatmate found Oryx and Crake the other day for 5 bucks. She bought it for me. I really ought to have read it already, but hey I'm still happy. Damn her for making me wait until christmas.

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actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

Atwood!

I am in love The Handmaid's Tale. I hate the language (however necessary it was), but the overall literature aspect is great.

I've read Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin. Right now I'm in the middle of The Wilderness Tips which I absolutely LOVE. I'm definately going to read her other books when I have the time to do so.

I love her. I first got into her when we had to study The Handmaid's Tale at school. It was actually one of the few books I did at school that I didn't end up loathing after studying and analysing them for months on end. The Blind Assassin is my favourite so far, and I also really loved Alias Grace.

To be honest I'm not sure how I feel about Cat's Eye. I read it when I was in a very strange frame of mind, and all I can remember now is that it just made me sadder. That's not necessarily a crticism of the book though; I think I need to read it again now and make my mind up.

alias grace.

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oh man it's really good. i forgot about this. YES. read it!

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