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Dec 05, 2013
Ashley
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it was amazing
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I reread this after maybe 10-12 years. Not only does it hold up, I now find the "conference" transcript at the end so much more pointed a critique.
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I can't believe it took me this long to read it! Remarkable dystopian novel that really hits a little too close to home in our current climate.
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Finished the listen just before the new show. It gutted me and I could listen in small spurts. Classic and necessary.
Quick read. Glad I read it back in 2014 so I have some idea what people are referencing, but there's no way in hell I'm ever revisiting this or its adaptations.
One of the more interesting takeaways from this book is that cashless economies become a dangerous tool for social control under fascism. That's an aside, though, like everything else that queer women and men do to resist. It's certainly useful to explore the particular convoluted and contradictory misogyny and reproductive injustice that ...more
One of the more interesting takeaways from this book is that cashless economies become a dangerous tool for social control under fascism. That's an aside, though, like everything else that queer women and men do to resist. It's certainly useful to explore the particular convoluted and contradictory misogyny and reproductive injustice that ...more
*sigh*
I know I read this at some point in my adolescence but MAN did I enjoy re-reading it. I loved everything about this book.
We are not each other's anymore. Instead, I am his. ~ Margaret Atwood
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Dec 10, 2011
martha
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really liked it
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