/lit/ - Literature

>>1013376
But she didn't win, did she.

I'm not saying it's a downright terrible book, some parts of the middle had promise- But the plot was irritating.

Take the mother character. Her only purpose in the entire novel was to become a martyr with little relation to the actual plot. She was created for the sole purpose of showcasing Atwood's political beliefs in a sympathetic political light

Or, take Oryx Atwood goes off on a multiple-chapter tangent with zero plot relevance in order to highlight third-world child slavery which would be GREAT IF IT WAS GOING TO HAVE SOME REAL IMPACT ON THE PLOT WHICH IT DOES NOT

And then we have Jimmy's university sequence: where Atwood feels compelled to make us read through multiple chapters of irrelevant harlequin romance with no plot value.

And the ending which is not an ending at all but an inconclusive irritation

Refuted. It was not that great

>>839063
you must be new here.

Been here as an anon since day one, kiddo. And let me tello you, I fucking hate /lit/ 70% of the time. It's typically a shithole of sage and psuedointellectual hacks who generally can't stand anything and systematically destroy anything good in the world.
/opinion