The book itself wasn't very good. Some of the features of Gilead (the totalitarian regime the MC lived under) were half-baked, but the author did understand totalitarian regimes better than the average person would, which made it somewhat interesting to read. You can get the same insight about totalitarian regimes from other dystopian novels like Brave New World and 1984 though. Don't bother with A Handmaid's Tale honestly.
I'll second that. If it hadn't been on the required list, I wouldn't have read it. There were some massive plot holes that made absolutely no sense, chiefly, how do you get the first generation of handmaids from an educated populace? No reasonable person would have volunteered for that or allowed their wife, sister, or daughter to be taken.
Still sounds like tripe.
Well, it was written by a RadFem lol
The book itself wasn't very good. Some of the features of Gilead (the totalitarian regime the MC lived under) were half-baked, but the author did understand totalitarian regimes better than the average person would, which made it somewhat interesting to read. You can get the same insight about totalitarian regimes from other dystopian novels like Brave New World and 1984 though. Don't bother with A Handmaid's Tale honestly.
I'll second that. If it hadn't been on the required list, I wouldn't have read it. There were some massive plot holes that made absolutely no sense, chiefly, how do you get the first generation of handmaids from an educated populace? No reasonable person would have volunteered for that or allowed their wife, sister, or daughter to be taken.