Comments on: The Handmaid’s Tale

By: Doctress Ju'ulia

Doctress Ju'ulia — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:23:49 +0000

Hey, All-Day: get your ass back there. It’s a good book, a good author, and Ayn Rand is NO Margaret Atwood.

By: Garland Grey

Garland Grey — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:08:25 +0000

I just finished “The Year of the Flood,” Atwood’s follow up to “Oryx and Crake.” Whatever you call it (Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopian Fiction, Post Apocalyptic Fiction) Atwood is writing amazing things about the future.

By: All_Day_SCI-fi

All_Day_SCI-fi — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:08:39 +0000

I started Hanmaid’s Tale. It bored me just like Ayn Rand’s Anthem.Not sure if I’ll ever get back to it. Not looking forward to it.

By: evan

evan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:45:49 +0000

is there actually a book about talking squids in outer space? I kind of want to read that…

By: ritchey

ritchey — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:48:21 +0000

I was just reading about how utopianism is just another kind of totalitarianism, because in order to make a perfect world you have to cleanse it of all the things that are WRONG.Anyway, this is a great exploration of generic distinctions, and of the Handmaid’s Tale, which as I’m sure you realize I am a psychotically fanatical fan of. Atwood’s other “speculative fiction” is cool, but doesn’t slay me like the HT. Giant super-intelligent murderous pigs (à la Oryx and Crake) gets kind of close to talking squids in outer space! Which isn’t a bad thing, but I’m just saying.