The Handmaid's Tale

Darth Brutus's Bigger & Badder Book Diary 2022 (13 books items)

"12.1. Some people will hate me for this, but I didn't really enjoy this novel, I don't think it's nearly as good as some folk make it out to be. I think Margaret Atwood is a great writer, but the content is very flat and empty. You know the thrill: some fundamental christian cult has taken over America and all fertile women are being persecuted, they're kept as slaves and regularly raped and stuff. My first issue is that the thing is so extreme it doesn't really represent even the smallest o"

Esquire's 80 Books Every Person Should Read (80 books items)

"Margaret Atwood's classic of dystopian fiction may be some 30 years old but its depiction of a society driven apart by terrorism and reconstituted as an ultra-conservative Christian theocracy where women have little to no rights at all feels as relevant today as it did when it was published back in 1985, and a sobering reminder that the war on women is as characteristic of the future as the past and present."

1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1001 books items)

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