I'm curious what you thought of "The Handmaid's Tale," given that so much of it is based on specifically American social and political trends (though you only have to look at places like Afghanistan and Iran to see how quickly any society can go backwards on women's rights). Also, have you seen any of the new TV series based on it? I haven't, but I'm tempted to subscribe to the streaming service Hulu just to watch it.
Back to high school, we had a project to prepare during the year, in group or not. It had to be in one of the four themes given for the year, and to involve two of our classes. I'll always remember the look of the other students when they learnt on what I was working ^^ ("Totalitarian societies in science-fiction literature")
So
The Handmaid's Tale could have been one of the books I would have used to prepare this project if I've known it before
That's probably why I read it so fast
(That, and maybe a serious lack of reading recently.) I haven't felt it "so american", it... it's clearly a story that could take place in a lot of various countries. We have politicians (and simple persons too) here who still think that a woman's place is at home, and if you listen to Le Pen's niece women rights aren't clearly a priority (Her talking about abortion was... huuu... -__-) This book is powerful. Nothing is as horrible as
Brave New World, to date, for me. I chose to see a little light of hope in
The Handmaid's Tale, as I've done reading
The Giver when I was a teenager. And I'll probably try to read an other Margaret Atwood's book because I enjoyed her writing.
And for the serie, it's because one person of fb talked about it that I decided that I had to read the book
I'll maybe try to watch it.
I'm still in
The long way to a small, angry planet, and think to the forum sometimes because the characters are very different and there are questions about gender/species (It's SF) well written, to my mind. If it's good until the end it will definitively be a book I'll recommend to friends
