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Wilderness Tips
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I checked this out of the local library and downed it very quickly, more to be done with it that from extreme enjoyment.
While I think Atwood is a terrific stylist, her works leave me cold, and her endings invariably disappoint. I didn't care a whit for anyone or anything in these stories, which I don't think even merit the appellation "story." Rather they should be called depressing vignettes of depressing people.
Although Lois in "Death by Landscape" merited a bit of pity, Atwood did not do anything to make me feel it. Selena in "Isis of the Underworld" (or something similar; I can't be bothered to go downstairs and look up the correct title) was potentially interesting, I could have engaged with her, yet that wasn't the point of the story. Engaging rarely seems to be the point, so I guess I'll have a permanent disconnect with the sad, pathetic, ambitious, ruthless inhabitants of Atwood's fiction.
Atwood may be trying to show a slice of Real Life, but it's not my slice. Thanks, but no thanks.
While I think Atwood is a terrific stylist, her works leave me cold, and her endings invariably disappoint. I didn't care a whit for anyone or anything in these stories, which I don't think even merit the appellation "story." Rather they should be called depressing vignettes of depressing people.
Although Lois in "Death by Landscape" merited a bit of pity, Atwood did not do anything to make me feel it. Selena in "Isis of the Underworld" (or something similar; I can't be bothered to go downstairs and look up the correct title) was potentially interesting, I could have engaged with her, yet that wasn't the point of the story. Engaging rarely seems to be the point, so I guess I'll have a permanent disconnect with the sad, pathetic, ambitious, ruthless inhabitants of Atwood's fiction.
Atwood may be trying to show a slice of Real Life, but it's not my slice. Thanks, but no thanks.
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PJ Who Once Was Peejay
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Sep 25, 2008 11:28AM
I'm with you on Atwood. I rarely care what happens to the people in her stories because it's all such a bunch of posing and posturing. And, as you say, any time she does give you a character you can care about she consistently undercuts them until you lose patience. I no longer bother with her.
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