tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post1859539496160652758..comments2024-03-27T22:54:47.270+01:00Comments on Let's read: Atwood, Margaret "The Handmaid's Tale"Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-13096516435243585662017-11-29T11:16:23.082+01:002017-11-29T11:16:23.082+01:00Thank you, Shirley,
I know how hard it is to read...Thank you, Shirley,<br /><br />I know how hard it is to read a book outside your comfort zone. I'm not into science fiction, either, but dystopian is a genre I like a lot because it shows us our fears, what could happen if something goes wrong.<br /><br />You can always tell the time when a dystopian novel was written. One of the best known dystopian novels, <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/orwell-george-animal-farm.html" rel="nofollow">Animal Farm</a> shows the fear of the people that we would all become communists, for example.<br /><br />I am pleased that you got to see what the author wanted to show with her book. Another good one in that direction is a true story but it rings very dystopian ... How could the Germans follow Hitler? It is explained so well in Morton Rhue's <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/rhue-morton-wave.html" rel="nofollow">The Wave</a> and is as important today as it has been in its day.<br /><br />Happy Reading,<br />Marianne<br />Marianne https://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-35200066755381467342017-11-29T04:03:20.336+01:002017-11-29T04:03:20.336+01:00I had never enjoyed science fiction because the se...I had never enjoyed science fiction because the settings in these books always seemed to be pretty sterile and that I didn't need in my life. When Marianne first mentioned Margaret Atwood as a writer she liked, I was impressed with Atwood's body of work. Thus, I made 'The Handmaid's Tale' my first read. I entered it as a blank slate determined to see it through to the end. When I finally got a sense of the story I disliked it! Appalling idea but very slowly I began to see the possibilities of a government gone mad. How easily a plan to go one way slowly twists and turns until it is something else entirely. I had also never heard the term 'dystopian' so I find that I may not be that comfortable, but I am certainly not bored with my current reading plan. Silver Springs Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00862970583216303944noreply@blogger.com