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This look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.
sparemethecensor: The Handmaid's Tale is the classic forerunner to dystopic fiction of sexist futures. When She Woke picks up the mantel with a more modern version of a misogynistic theocracy taking over government. Both show terrifying futures for the state of women in society.… (mer)
Kaelkivial: Both stories of strong women who resist (in one form or another) the system that holds them down. Both books fairly fast paced and gripping; acts of violence and loss scattered throughout.
My personal reading challenge 2019: A dsytopian novel.
Abandoned on 23.6.2019.
The concepts of this novel are intriguing, haunting and creepy and the dystopian society created by Atwood terrifyingly realistic. But this new audiobook version simply didn't do it for me. It's read by Elisabeth Moss, who stars in the TV series, but she reads with very little emotion and way too fast. I found it difficult to truly grasp the concepts of the book and just enjoy the story when Moss' reading was so frustrating. This is a book that requires time and thought to fully enjoy. I had to regrettably abandon this for the time being. I might return to it one day. ( )
En skrämmande och välskriven dystopi om ett framtida USA där någon religiös sekt tagit makten (låter som Tea party rörelsen för mig.) Det som för mig är mest skrämmande är att scenariot utspelar sig i många länder idag.
Jag läste denna när den kom ut, utan att tidigare känna till författaren. För mig var det en stor läsupplevelse då. Atwood har blivit en av mina favoritförfattare ( )
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And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
And she said, Behold my maid Bihah, go in unto her, and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. — Genesis 30:1–3
But as to myself, having been wearied out for many years with offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length utterly despairing of success, I fortunately fell upon this proposal . . . — Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones. — Sufi proverb
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We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.
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As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.
Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I’m nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.
The shell of the egg is smooth but also grained; small pebbles of calcium are defined by the sunlight, like craters on the moon. It’s a barren landscape, yet perfect; it’s the sort of desert the saints went into, so their minds would not be distracted by profusions. I think that this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside.
But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe none of this is about control ... Maybe it’s about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.
There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia, freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.
I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife. When there’s meat they cut it up for me ahead of time, as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife.
To go through all that [childbirth] and give birth to a shredder: it wasn’t a fine thought. We didn’t know exactly what would happen to the babies that didn’t get passed, that were declared Unbabies. But we knew they were put somewhere, quickly, away.
Since the paper famine there have been no newspapers ... At the corner is the store know as Soul Scrolls .... Behind the shatter-proof window are print-out machines ... they are known as Holy Rollers. They print prayers, roll upon roll, prayers going out endlessly. ... There are five different prayers ...You pick the one you want, punch in the number, then punch in your own number so your account will be debited, and punch in the number of times you want the prayer repeated. The machines talk as they print out the prayers ... Once the prayers have been printed out and said, the paper rolls back through another slot and is recycled into fresh paper again.
Whenever there is butter or even margarine, I save some ... There’s no longer any hand lotion or face cream ... [Our] outside can become hard and wrinkled, like the shell of a nut .... The butter is a trick ... we all do it .... butter our skin to keep it soft.
I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed.
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And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.
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The Reading Guide Edition is the substantial equivalent the main Handmaid's Tale work, with a few additional pages of questions for groups to consider at the back. Please therefore leave these works combined together. Thank you
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This look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.
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Abandoned on 23.6.2019.
The concepts of this novel are intriguing, haunting and creepy and the dystopian society created by Atwood terrifyingly realistic. But this new audiobook version simply didn't do it for me. It's read by Elisabeth Moss, who stars in the TV series, but she reads with very little emotion and way too fast. I found it difficult to truly grasp the concepts of the book and just enjoy the story when Moss' reading was so frustrating. This is a book that requires time and thought to fully enjoy. I had to regrettably abandon this for the time being. I might return to it one day. (