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Has anyone read this? I know not much literature gets discussed on the board lately but i've just finished reading it. Im confused to how i feel about the ending. But i feel sad |
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anyone? |
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I bought it three years ago. still haven't read it. I have a HUUUUUGE "to read"-pile.. |
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It's good...well i think it is. It makes me want to read other literature. Could you recomend anything else like that qrter. Or perhaps just another good read? |
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well, "Handmaid's tale" fits into the line of anti-utopian novels. besides obvious greats like Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and Huxley's "Brave new world", you could try Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" - about a future society in which special police burn all books and documents (which is seen as dangerous and subversive). stranger is Thomas M. Disch's "433" - a collection of short stories all set in the near-future in a building (called 433) in New York. only slowly do you get to know the background world, how totalitarian it is (for example, everybody has a kind of rating, based on all kinds of intelligence tests, which determines what kind of future you can have - you get a penalty if theres a genetic disease in your family, you get a bonus if your black etc.). |
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OH shit its called "334".. ha ha.. you can have a look inside.. another book by Disch is also interesting.. called "Camp Concentration". in which the US has become this totalitarian empire thats continually at war with the rest of the world (hey..).. a poet refuses to fight in the army, so he goes to jail and has to take part in a genetic experiment. the whole book is written in the form of the diary of the main character. I thought the ending was crap, but the rest was great. both of these books were written in the early sixties, btw.. :) |
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Wow, they sound great :) I liked how everyone in Handmaid's tale is literally and mentally uniformed and the whole idea of whether or not women should be respected comes down to whether they can bear children. I love it. I have heard alot about Nineteen Eighty Four, i will have to buy it Margret Atwood kinda plays around with the reader though. Sometimes you are unsure whether it is the main character (Offred) speaking or whether it is Atwood commenting on the styule of writing a book. |
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Thank you so much qrter |
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i saw the movie. it made me not like robert duvall :) |
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Shit it's about time I got back into reading. I'm looking for a kind of futuristic thriller...with kind of a Blade Runner feel to it. Any recommendations? |
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reedeen iz yuk no pikchurs? me no liky |
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Not sure DJ :( sowwy I will ask around my mates for you if you want |
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Oh if you wouldn't mind Muz ;) |
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actually, yeah, a good story that is kinda sci-fi (more like matrix than blade runner though) is the short story The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. Its about a society in the future where everyone lives under ground and all everyday activities revolve around a machine that kinda controls everything. its good. and its short. also, that farenheit 451 mentioned above is a quick read if you hadn't read it already in high school or something. |
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Thanks for those suggestions. |
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blech i didn't like this at all. then again, i had to read it for english so that sort of happens. |
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I'm reading it for English Lit A level and i love it loads |
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loved the book, found the movie to be quite interesting....but not as satisfying! Evil Q has some good ideas, with 1984, Brave New World and Farenheit 451 being the BEST of the bunch IMO. |
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Just finished re-reading this. Very powerful, i paid alot more attention to it this time round. I love it, one of my faves. |
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shit. STILL haven't read it. :( |
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That's almost a year you dang blasted fool. I'd like to be on your new quotes avatar. Do i have to say something witty or strange? Bob Dole says "Bob dole" |
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just be your lovely self and maybe, just maybe, you'll be featured one of these days... the excitement!! |
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oh :( i hate my lovely self |
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you're fucked then. |
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I've seen the film, which I enjoyed and I've been told that "Implosion" is a similar sort of book. |
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