So you can discuss your weekly readings.
I’m still reading Moby Dic, currently halfway through, so far is great, though as English is not my native language It means I have to look up quite a bit in the dictionary to learn the “old timey” words, but I’m using it less now the more I learn, it also made me check up the Bible to find the biblical counterparts of the characters with biblical names, which is interesting.
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I read Adrian Tchaikovsky novela One Day All This Will be Yours, which is decently fun time travel story. I'm currently reading Margret Atwoods's Cat's Eye which some dramatard recommended to me a while ago
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Speaking of Atwood, have you ever read Reddit’s favorite foid dystopia “The Handmaid’s Tale”?
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Yep
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Thoughts?
Overrated or actually good dystopia?
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I think it's a book of it's time. It's easy to look back at it now, in a time were women are more empowered then any point in human history, and snicker at it.
In was written during the start of Reagan's presidency, when it looked like christian conservatism may have been the dominant cultural force going forward.
Ofc she was wrong about all of that, but not really any more wrong then any other dystopian writer.
I think if u don't hate women it's worth reading
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Oh, come on, the book was out of touch even in its own time.
Atwood took inspiration from the Islamic revolution in Iran and tastelessly applied it to the west, regardless of the radically different social, religious, and political circumstances of the two. Most of the book's shock value derives from its specific lack of prescience, in contrast to other dystopian fiction, and it's actually more of a horror/fetish novel than anything else. Only pearl-clutchers ever took it seriously.
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That's like half of rdrama
I watched the Hulu show and unironically thought season 1 was very good, I think it covers the entire book. Season 2 was mediocre and season 3 was terrible filled with #resist level cringe so I just gave up.
You make a good point here, all dystopian writers are hyperbolic, I you want a realistic dictatorship novel Mario Vargas Llosa is great. I’ll give the
a try someday.
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