Maybe it's just me, but outside of maybe, like, anon meme culture, isn't it really fuckin' weird to recommend porn to people? And yes, Handmaid Tale is shlick material for them, no matter its other literary merits.
If she also suggests 50 shades of grey, pretty sure it's signalling.
It actually is a really good book. Like it’s obviously a bit of a feminist story, but it’s told completely sincerely. No girl power shit, a lot of the villains are other sadistic women, and none of the ridiculously hard to believe elements from the tv show like her husband and old roommate running in to each other in Canada happen.
SPOILERS* ultimately a man saves her (probably, the book doesn’t make it clear) and in the epilogue we find out the whole story was like a lecture in a history class and the students kinda laugh off the crazy handmaid era. Super optimistic in a way, and really antithetical to the everything is the end of the world vibe in leftist Internet spaces
It should be read for leisure or not at all. It's been too long since I read it to tell you whether it's any good as a work of fiction, but anyone who tells you it's an Important Work needs another lobotomy.
Anyone read the book? I remember someone insisted the book was pretty good but it was adapted at the worst possible time.
It’s female subjugation fetish, that’s all.
Gotcha. Well it was a lady who recommended it
What part of this is rocket science?
Maybe it's just me, but outside of maybe, like, anon meme culture, isn't it really fuckin' weird to recommend porn to people? And yes, Handmaid Tale is shlick material for them, no matter its other literary merits.
If she also suggests 50 shades of grey, pretty sure it's signalling.
Female romance novels(IE, porn) outsells other literature by alot. Like, alot. So, I'm not really surprised.
It actually is a really good book. Like it’s obviously a bit of a feminist story, but it’s told completely sincerely. No girl power shit, a lot of the villains are other sadistic women, and none of the ridiculously hard to believe elements from the tv show like her husband and old roommate running in to each other in Canada happen.
SPOILERS* ultimately a man saves her (probably, the book doesn’t make it clear) and in the epilogue we find out the whole story was like a lecture in a history class and the students kinda laugh off the crazy handmaid era. Super optimistic in a way, and really antithetical to the everything is the end of the world vibe in leftist Internet spaces
Thanks! I’ve heard the book wasn’t bad but this was the worst time to adapt it. I’ll read it one day.
It should be read for leisure or not at all. It's been too long since I read it to tell you whether it's any good as a work of fiction, but anyone who tells you it's an Important Work needs another lobotomy.