[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’ve been reading Margaret Atwood since I was a teenager. Her writing is amazing. I love her stories. And they are just that: STORIES.

If anything you read ‘sways’ you to think in some way differently than how you were raised or what you’ve come to believe due to personal experiences in life, you are a weak person who has no moral compass!

I likened, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ to any other ‘cautionary’ tale of the time - ‘Farenheight 451’ ‘1984’ ‘Animal Farm’ ‘Atlas Shrugged’ ‘Catch 22’ etc. I’ve read everything. Ask me to name something I HAVEN’T read; I’ll have no answer for you, LOL!

Socialists and The Enemy Media. They destroy anything they touch with their fecking, ‘analysis’ of EVERYTHING, but they NEVER look into their own hearts of darkness.

[nickcarraway]

My favorite is her poem:

You Fit Into Me

You fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye

[nickcarraway]

Okay, did you read these two:

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. This was finished in 1921, so very early on in the Soviet experiment. If you read 1984, you have to read this, by someone who really experienced it. It inspired: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Ayn Rand's Anthem, George Orwell's 1884, Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano. and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed (1974, among others.

The Iron Heel by Jack London. Even though he mixes up some thing, this 1908 novel seems to predict World War I Stalin, and Hitler.

[nopardons]

I've read most of Atwood's books and her early ones are the best. They're good reads and many are actually funny.

OTOH...Atwood has given an interview about the new series and she's delighted that it is coming out, because she sees "women losing "rights" ( she's gung-ho PROABORTION and "FEMINAZI" crap )under President Trump.