/lit/ - Literature

I'm not even going to pretend to disguise my motives, and I suspect most of you will simply scroll past this post. But I'll ask anyway: anyone want to write me a 750 word essay on the portrayal of science, technology, medicine, and nature in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood? If not, maybe an outline? I'm lost right now.

/lit/, I just read this AMAZING book. It really made me think about my position in this corrupt country. I was going to sit at home, but now I'm going to sign back up for the Obama grassroots campaign and go back to Wall Street in September.

What are your thoughts on this masterpiece of modern literature?

I'm having a hard time suspending my belief in this book.

I think it's because it was written in the 80's.

I've read better dystopian novels that performed better than this.

All books written women. They're too superficial, irrational, too reactionary, and emotional to write anything serious, unbiased, and worth your time.

>mfw I realize most men class women as either "sluts" or "wife material"

>mfw I realize insitutitionalized sexism exists

>mfw I realize homosexuality is seen as aberrant and people who bully homosexuals are given a slap on the wrist or even encouraged by
modern society

>mfw I realize harems/polygamy are a male fantasy and actually exist in cultures like Mormon and Muslim culture

>mfw I realize most men look down upon women and see them as second class citizens

>mfw I realize male politicians try to control female reproductive rights

I feel like I'm living in the fucking Handmaid's Tale and I hate this. I FUCKING HATE IT.

Margaret Atwood is on Twitter.

Do you have any favorite authors that you follow on Twitter?

Been meaning to read this for years. Will start the year with it.

hey /lit/,

anyone else out there read this?

I'm 100 pages in, pretty good thus far.

Anyone else strangely turned on by the submissiveness? I feel a little guilty since its sad stuff but idk I'm kind of into it.

Red ranger reporting !

Can somebody please explain the ending of Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood to me? I recently read it, but I did not understand the ending at all.