Comments on: Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood

By: Don

Don — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:13:59 +0000

Margret Atwood is one of the best Canadian writers ever! Her writing and choice of words paints compelling pictures of her stories.

By: oVera

oVera — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:46:51 +0000

I absolutely agree with Dick..

By: Dick

Dick — Mon, 14 May 2007 05:26:24 +0000

As one of those strange people who struggles with the short story (I clamber in & then suddenly, just as I’ve got comfortable, I’m out the other side), I’m intrigued by these two extracts, particularly the second. Thanks for the tip, John. Off to Amamzon…

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sat, 12 May 2007 01:43:22 +0000

Atwood is amazing and Wilderness Tips is one of her best short story collections. If you haven’t read one of her novels, let me suggest “The Blind Assassin” for which she won a richly deserved Booker prize.

Here’s a nice Atwood video retrospective on the CBC website:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-68-1494/arts_entertainment/margaret_atwood/

The best clip from the page above is this one:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-68-1494-10063/arts_entertainment/margaret_atwood/clip10

Shawn

jb says: Fascinating stuff, Shawn. Thanks for this. I’ve read some of the novels, and the The Blind Assassin will now be next.

By: Minx

Minx — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:06:30 +0000

I like Atwood because you never know what genre she is going to tackle next. I have enjoyed all I have read so far. Thanks for this – I am always looking for a short story collection to fill those ‘attention span of a stapler’ days.

jb says: Hi Minx. You’ll enjoy it.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 11 May 2007 08:52:56 +0000

That’s damn good writing. I confess that I’ve never read Margaret Atwood, but I will.
She leaves “man” like a dead insect, pinned in a glass case, with a few well chosen phrases and words.
She leaves me wishing that I could write like that.
Thanks John.

jb says: She’s good. Not always, of course, but it would be a mistake to discount her.