Topic: Handmaids Tale - Opinions

[WC]

Have to resurrect this thread. Just finished listening to the BBC audioplay/audiobook. Really good production. It does, however, leave a tremendous amount out. But the dramatization is rather commendable in its own right. I've read this twice before, way back, and it's still on a bookshelf somewhere in storage in SLC, 2,000 miles away and collecting dust. I'm going to go check out the latest publication from my library this week. I have a weakness for dystopian SF, but the thing is... This is chillingly and frighteningly prophetic, more so now than ever (i.e. the GOP's current war on women).

[Jolimont]

A great read in IMO, but it's been so long since I've read it, I can't really talk about it intelligently now. I never read anything by Atwood I didn't enjoy.

[WC]

I had a hard time getting through Oryx and Crake. But then I went back a few years later and devoured it.

[Johnny Slick]

Really... I am normally a pretty big fan of Atwood but The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake are pretty easily my least favorite works of hers. In fact, most Atwood hatas I know only know here from Handmaid and I have to convince them that she's not like Ayn Rand; no, really, not all of her writing is really like that. But to each their own I guess.

[WC]

Word.

Dystopian SF is a guilty pleasure of mine.