... and while we're on it, I'm currently 54 pages into The Handmaid's Tale.
Why did no-one tell me how beautifully and elegantly written The Handmaid's Tale was before now? It's been out since I was eight!
(Ignore for now the decades for which it, and Margaret Atwood have been critically lauded, awarded prizes, recommend by hundreds of thousands of people - I'm talking specifically here about you lot).
It's, and remember I'm only fifty-four pages in, the most subtle work of show-don't-tell world building I can remember ever reading. It's literally more menacing than the start of Nineteen Eighty Four, the way she's detailing the lives of people in her world, and just every now and then hinting at the terror, horror and oppression that has lead up to the events being described. It's majestic.
I mean, maybe, page 55 onwards is a pile of s**t, but I'm not betting a lot on that regardless of the odds you give me.
Posted By: Arizona Bay on August 30th 2017 at 22:09:03
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- Worz. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Aug 30, 21:42:59
- chairs for that, sounds like the right stuff to me (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Aug 30, 21:56:06
- ... and if you want new sci-fi, try The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Aug 30, 22:00:32
- thanks again, I'll do some perusing of reviews and then possibly do a buy (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Aug 30, 22:25:47
- ... and while we're on it, I'm currently 54 pages into The Handmaid's Tale. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Aug 30, 22:09:03
- Well, I can't fucking stand marmite, so steady as you go. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Aug 30, 21:57:27
- I can take it or leave it (General Chat) - Tombs, Aug 30, 22:00:13
- What about bovrils? (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Aug 30, 22:10:33
- I love the bovrils properly. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Aug 30, 22:15:58
- Can't renember tbh (General Chat) - Tombs, Aug 30, 22:14:44
- What about bovrils? (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Aug 30, 22:10:33
- I can take it or leave it (General Chat) - Tombs, Aug 30, 22:00:13
- ... and if you want new sci-fi, try The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Aug 30, 22:00:32
- Huh, what is it good for (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Aug 30, 21:48:12
- chairs for that, sounds like the right stuff to me (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Aug 30, 21:56:06
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