“A Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Attwood has announced that she is working on a sequel to her 30 year old dystopian novel titled, “The Testaments.”
The Los Angeles Times asks,
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a perfect mirror of modern times. Do we really need a sequel?
Haven’t read the book. Haven’t seen the show.
Am I missing anything important? Significant?
I am with Al on this as well…. Do not know anything about it…
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Yeah I read this in a library book club back in the 80’s and it was too creepy–wouldn’t recommend it at all. I seem to recall in one part sexual intercourse was so rare that it became a big public event, though participants were mostly fully clothed. And the language was not sexy in any way. I don’t remember how procreation occurred but it was no doubt sinister. See, how awful is that??? Now she is milking it for all its worth as the libs love this crap.
If it happens hopefully HBO will hire Amy Schumer to replace Elizabeth Moss. Amy is much more frumpy and connected than Elizabeth ever was, even though she did her best in the attempt.
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a perfect mirror of modern times.’
Right,,, sure it is, if your a liberal living in delusion and fiction.
Cash in while you can, I guess.
I’m with Uncle Al. Until this play acting was injected into political theater during the Trump Derangement years it was unknown to me.
My all guys book club for some reason or another picked the Handmaiden’s Tale to read as our next book in January. I’m going to pass on reading it, I’d almost rather read Battlefield Earth by L Ron Hubbard and I didn’t get thru pg. 1 of that piece of literary crap. I’d rather reread The Brothers Karamazov or Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky than this crap. Fortunately poetry night is next month which is our annual get together of reading poems and limericks and generally having a good time at one of our local Irish pubs. They don’t call it Tiger Ray’s Book and Wine Club for nothing.
I’d rather read an IBM manual.
Often misquoted, what Rick James actually said was “dystopia is a hell of a drug”.
Actually, Crime and Punishment is one of the great masterpieces.
I despise female dystopian drivel.
So what? She will read the NY Times, Wash. Post – every lib crap SJW sheet and it effin writes itself. Then she gets the SJWs to pay her for this? She might be giggling all the way to the bank.
The gall of it all…
Fertile woman are being forced into birthing slavery for a Catholic run rich government?
Gay people and retarded people are being forcibly ‘bred’ out?
80+ of the world population is sterile and unable to have children no matter what?
Men who are fertile are also being used as breeding stock???
Really???
…I must be not living on the right planet or on the SAME planet as these people, huh?
Either that or none of these liberal idiots actually read the handmaiden book and just base this shit off of minimal knowledge of a show they didn’t even watch but it ‘haz lesbians and evbl chrisitianz so it refkects lyfe now!1!’
…half of our country shouldn’t be allowed to vote anymore. Ffs.
A perfect mirror of modern times? The LA Times writer watches too much TV, probably that particular TV show. It’s totally ridiculous to portray America like that, but accurate to describe the muslim world that way. They paint America with the Harvey Weinstein brush, but let the muzzies off the hook for what they do to women, which ranges from forcing them to wear headdresses to genital mutilation and stoning to death.
Now why is it that I think journalists and writers are so damned stupid?
I’m going with the following interpretation. The so called visionary author? A messed up, dysfunctional, bitter shrew who can’t have a normal relationship because she’s got nothing to bring to said relationship, it’s the Patriarchy’s fault, not that she’s an angry loser. Decides to paint those that are normal as really being tortured, contrived, controlled. This book and TV series is the end-all be-all for fat lesbians with matching kool-aid dyed hair, crotch and armpit hair. I had the distasteful burden of listening to one of them vomiting the rhetoric about the show a few weeks ago. She sat there preening over how “woke” she has become, glaring at all the guys in the group with a smug “come hither so I can neuter you” expression.
Also known as sour grapes, because God forbid you would want to better yourself so that someone else might want to get to know you better, rather than making yourself more repulsively abnormal thereby proving yourself right. Like attracts like, their rage is the only foundation for their relationships.