Lady Oracle Novel Review

Lady Oracle: An Awesome Reading Given By Margeret Attwood : A wonderfully unpretentious comic romp. A fine novel: inventive, funny, and a pleasure to read.

Lady Oracle by Margerett Attwood seems to be one of the hottest selling fiction novel for the year 2007. So far 1000′s of copies have sold and the book is getting rave reviews from readers.

Below you’ll find some great review from Amazon’s customers.

Review By:K.Melissa Galyon “melreads” (Rockwall, Texas)

I read Margaret Atwood’s *Lady Oracle* with a book group at the office, and I am anxious to find out what my co-workers think of it. I’ve read several of Atwood’s novels previously and am used to her unusual plots and characters, and *Lady Oracle* is no exception. If you enjoyed *The Robber Bride*, I think you’ll find *Lady Oracle* right up your alley.

Joan Foster might be categorized as having multiple personality disorder except for the fact that all her personalities co-exist rather happily. When the novel opens, Joan has escaped to Italy, reasons unknown as yet to the reader, and she catalogues her various lives chapter by chapter. Her childhood self, an overweight doormat, must reconcile with her adult self, a beautiful, thin redhead. And then Joan has her writer self, a gothic romance novelist writing under a pen name. Unfortunately, her husband Arthur only knows the adult Joan, and she has a devil of a time keeping them separate from her home with Arthur.

As the novel expands to reveal the how’s and why’s of Joan’s disappearance, readers are treated to various anecdotes of Joan’s upbringing and married life. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes moving, Atwood shows once again that she is a must-read author in contemporary fiction.

Review By:Usuallee (Tampa, Fl)

I randomly stumbled across this book and I’m so glad. I’d never read any of Atwood’s books before this, and was extremely impressed. Her book is a truly inspired blend of hilarious farcical elements combined with haunting, melancholy passages. Joan is an extremely well drawn and three dimensional character, easy to empathize with in spite of, and because of, her numerous quirks, neuroses, and personalities. Combined with Atwood’s fluid, flawless writing style, it made for a unique and highly entertaining experience I will not soon forget. Looking forward to reading more from this author.

Review By: Melissa Solomon (Victoria, TX United States) -

This is the third Atwood book I’ve read, and I really enjoy her work. Her stories tend to suck you in, and by the middle of the book you’re having trouble putting it down because you want to finish it. It’s as if some of her stories are so implausible that you can’t imagine what could happen next, so you have to keep reading.

In Lady Oracle Atwood describes the life of Joan, a woman who has had many negative experiences as a child and makes some bad choices as an adult. The story goes back and forth from her present life to her childhood, and the flashbacks continue through the story to bring you up to speed on her life. This is the same form that Atwood’s two other books that I have read have taken as well. Joan becomes a celebrated author, but her husband, the impetuous Arthur, has negative things to say about her and her work. She becomes involved in scandals and finds that the only way out may be to fake her own death (which continues her pattern of placating others and not being able to do for herself).

In all this is another great book, but I personally felt that the ending was anti-climactic, leaving the reader with no sense of closure.

The cover image is itself very hot as the book! You got to read Lady Oracle at the earliest!

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