@hueypriest have you read more Atwood? I've really wanted to get into her but I've been unable to. I'm going to give this a try.
@annewootton is a big Atwood fan!
@epicalex torturously long, decadent poetry, hymns, songs and mostly focused on a dull, naive character. Then again, I'm not a LotR guy either (same reasons), so maybe it's just not in my wheelhouse! Did you like LotR?
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@tymrtn funnily enough I'm not a LotR guy for exactly those reasons you list!
@epicalex haha, well did you just skip over the boring parts of Year of the Flood then?
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@tymrtn I actually found them (the hymns) quite interesting as a kind of alternative reading of a Christian religion. As an atheist I enjoyed how they almost felt like a parody. That and I can never bring myself to skip anything in a book ;)
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