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Do you like this book?

>> No.23781557

>>23781555
preferred oryx and crake

>> No.23781558

>>23781555
A classic in the annals of female rape fantasies. Hot stuff indeed.

>> No.23781691

The idea is good. What if women were stripped of their rights and (due to fertility issues) forced to be vessels for children at the behest of powerful men? Well, minus the fertility issues, this is actively happening in certain countries. I could forgive the fact that Atwood is attacking the culture which has done the most for women's rights because that's the only culture people are allowed to openly criticize nowadays. It's annoying, but this book still could still have been a masterpiece if the concept was executed well. What I can't forgive is the infuriating way this story is written. Constant sentence fragments, moving in and out of different times, trying to turn every other sentence into poetry... This story could have been good. The dystopia is realistic enough to touch on relevant moral issues, the character development is compelling, the side characters are interesting, and the history of the world is large enough to be expanded on.

>> No.23781721

>>23781555
No but it is a light read and it was so over the top and ridiculous it ended up being fun. It's just really depressing that an overwhelming majority of women see childbirth this way

>> No.23781832

>>23781721
It's also fun to remind people that it was actually inspired by strict Islam, not Christianity.

>> No.23781866

>>23781555
The book and its consequences have been a disaster for political discourse

>> No.23782086

>>23781866
How so?

>> No.23782127

>>23782086
Like 1984, people who have never read it constantly throw it around as fear propaganda, using it to demonize their opponents and shut down any actual meaningful conversation on real issues like abortion and secularism. It does nothing but serve to further trivialize American politics and dumb citizens down into children who can only see the world through pop culture "Good guys versus the bad guys" lenses.

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>>23781555

>> No.23782809

>>23782223
Perfect.

>> No.23782986

Feminism is a shit test

Feminists want to be raped

>> No.23783250

John Dolan's review remains unsurpassed
>Handmaid’s Tale is meant to reassure every wretched office-worker who goes home to a cat, a VCR, and Pizza-for-one that her life is noble and progressive. Handmaid’s Tale is fun horror-fiction for women who work in the American-style cubicle-world precisely because it’s so utterly unrelated to the miseries and terrors of their own lives. No one wants to force middle-class American women to have babies. In fact, it’s almost impossible for them to contemplate having kids, because they’re terrified that it might set them back in their careers, and their rivals in the adjacent cubicles would grab their parking spaces and health plans. Nobody wants to use their bodies. That’s precisely the horror with which they live: no one wants to mate with them because in their world, every single striver must fear every other, and the sort of joint action involved in mating and rearing one’s young is impossible—laughable, a thing which only those who have abandoned the hope of A Career can contemplate. So in their minds, mating and rearing children moves down in class, becoming a thing for rednecks and (though they’ll never say this part out loud) immigrants-of-color. The desire to have children gets bounced outside oneself, onto these lesser beings, and returns, courtesy of Atwood, in demonized form, as the tyranny of procreation, family values and the Patriarchy. It’s the horror they love to fear.
>And in the meantime, what has Atwood’s Utopia done, in real political terms? It has managed to distract a whole generation of Americanized women from the real fear and awful loneliness of their office lives. In this way, Atwood’s Canada of the Spirit is, like its real-world counterpart, the good-cop tool, the quaking valet of its Vampire master, America. Atwood’s Canada offers no answer to the Americanized women whose only family is Allie MacBeal and her friends. After all, they’re not rednecks, they’re not Fundamentalists. In fact, the horrible lives of every woman who tries to live out Allie MacBeal is rendered noble by reading Handmaid’s Tale.

>> No.23783515

>>23783250
What makes a review like this different from some femoid on Goodreads saying that Steppenwolf is a self-insert fantasy for incels?

>> No.23783522

>>23781555
haven't read it. is it hot?

>> No.23783532

>>23781691
>What is nature
Truly an absurd question to decadent bourgeois cumdumpsters.

Fortunately niggers won't care enough not to rape them.

>> No.23783537

>>23782986
The existence of women is a shit test

You pass by killing them

>> No.23783555

>>23783537
This but unironically
Kill all roasties (except mom)

>> No.23783562

>>23783515
Nothing, sis. If you think about it they're both totally just like words so like who's to say you know?

>> No.23783577

>>23783250
>No one wants to force middle-class American women to have babies.
False

>> No.23783612

to me it was obvious this was a sex fantasy book when i read the scene where the guy was fucking the woman while his wife was watching. is it not obvious to everyone else?

>> No.23783710

>>23781555
Atwood's poetry and short stories are much stronger than her novels.