'Objects In Space'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I think Handmaid's Tale is her worst effort.
Surfacing, which actually touches in some ways on the same sorts of issues, is a deeper, more complex, more real way of forming art from them.
Damn, that sounds wanky. I should go talk about comics or something.
The library had The Robber Bride and Cat's Eye on the shelf. Ima give Robber Bride a try.
I was willing to go along into The Haidmaid's Tale's reality completely, hence the being disturbed by it; I felt like I lived it, a tiny bit.
I enjoyed Oryx and Crake because I liked the message that Atwood was trying to highlight - the dangers of genetic modification of animals. I think she pulled off the intermixing of the different periods of time well, but not as well as in The Blind Assassin. Then again, TBA is my most favourite Atwood, and on my top 10 favourite books.
Has anyone here read anything by Robin Jarvis? She a british YA author. Right now I'm reading book 2 of the Wyrd Museum trilogy (I think you'd like these Ouise) and I'm wondering if her other trilogies are good as well.
I found Handmaid's Tale quiet in tone, but took that to mean that the disaster in civil rights had already happened, outrage was exhausted, and resignation was all Ofglen had left. The atmosphere was creepy and insidious, like Hill House.
I have a question about Handmaid's Tale. (I haven't read it - saw the movie a long time ago. I liked it a lot, actually. Kinda strange for me.)
Anyway...why weren't the men sterile? Why just the women?
(I think you'd like these Ouise)I've noticed some of her books - I'll have to try some. Thanks for the recommendation.
Anyway...why weren't the men sterile? Why just the women?Because their culture insisted that that was the case. Rather like a lot of history, really. (Like Henry VIII divorcing/executing all those wives, never considering that he might be the problem.)
Re: Handmaid's Tale: Not everybody was sterile, there were widespread infertility problems due to the toxic environment. So powerful men wishing to reproduce were assigned Handmaids of previous, proven fertility to try their luck at planting their little wigglers.
OK, so on a whim I took Live and Let Die out of the library. I don't think I can finish it. Beside the incongruity of having a Guns-n-Roses remake of a Wings song in my head while I read this book set in the 50s, I just finished the chapter called "Nigger Heaven." I shit you not. Will it continue to be this bad?
Thanks, Ouise and KB. Makes sense.
Well, not real sense. Dystopic society sense. Effed up royal family sense.
IOW, no sense at all, but there ya go.