[ SECRET POST #2651 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2651 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, no? I don't know about the latter two, but I'll put my anti-rec in for Margaret Atwood any day. What a shitty fucking writer. Look at the main female character in The Handmaid's Tale? What did she do but wander around, mope, go to a club, and get fucked? Does that sound like a good female character?

[merkuria]

So you don't like a book I enjoy. No need to be so bloody obnoxious about it. Go away.

[(Anonymous)]

Why don't you go away if you don't like it? You gave your opinion of it, and I gave mine. Wow, imagine that, people being allowed to disagree with your opinion of a shitty book.

[(Anonymous)]

you sound an awful lot like the troll anon upthread

either that or you are very very angry about literature

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Isn't it good to be passionate about books? Don't know why the above anon is so annoyed that someone doesn't share their opinion.

[(Anonymous)]

well there's passionate and then there's just wasting your time

what are the chances either of you is going to change your opinion?

[(Anonymous)]

Why does it have to be about changing the other person's opinion? Why does it have to be a battle?

It's possible to have a discussion without that adversarial expectation. Just acknowledging there are different viewpoints and talking about them is a valid goal.

[lunabee34]

100% yes.

Of course Atwood has written loads of other books beyond that one.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, and I've read them. In Cat's Eye there was that lovely part where the protagonist described ripping the skin off of her feet in detail. No thanks. It was better than The Handmaid's Tale but was still shockingly mediocre.

[lunabee34]

Aw. We just have different tastes. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE.

no but seriously, even if you just don't like her stuff - Margaret Atwood is not a shitty writer.

[(Anonymous)]

And your proof for that is...?

[tabaqui]

'Mopes' and 'goes to a club'? She's basically a slave who will be killed if she doesn't behave and *have babies*. You are very, very confused.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, and you would expect some real anger or feeling over that. Instead, we're given an emotional depth that is akin to teenage moping. No real action, thought, or feeling is portrayed at such a situation. It made the whole premise decidedly unbelievable, almost like breaking the fourth wall. We're really supposed to believe that's she some oppressed slave? She doesn't even seem to believe it, so why should we?

[tabaqui]

Oh, i dunno, 'cause she has no other options, she's suicidally depressed and has no way to escape or change her life?

If you hated the book, that's fine, but trivializing what the character faced is kinda dumb.

[(Anonymous)]

The Bell Jar shows depression well. The Handmaid's Tale does not. She's suicidally depressed? News to me. Atwood couldn't even get that across. Sylvia Plath's protaganist was faced with less obstacles and she still managed to get the reader to give a fuck about her and understand how she was feeling.

[tabaqui]

You're aware that 'The Bell Jar' is based heavily on Ms Plath's own life, right? And that the main character is basically her?

And you're also aware that the simple fact that your dislike of 'The Handmaid's Tale' doesn't *actually* make it as horrible as you think it does?

Maybe your reading comprehension is bad, as I didn't have to struggle to understand what was going on with THT's main character.

Frankly, i'm quite tired of this conversation - you hated THT - go you. I didn't. Feel free to get in the last snarky word, i'm done.