Well aren't you the clever girl?
Of course the book shouldn't be banned. It should be used in classrooms as an example of shitty feminist polemic selling itself as high-minded literature.
Even as a mere sci-fi dystopia, it still sucks. It's just not good.
I just love what you said. I had to do an independent feminist study in college and one of her books was on the list...forgot the name of it...maybe the one I'm thinking of was Lessing's.
Anyway, the main character had no name, and she was the only one without a name. The whole time I suffered through it, not able to put my finger on what was wrong with it. When I realized everyone else had a name, I felt like a total Schmoe for reading it!
I keep getting this book confused in my mind with P.D. James, "The Children of Men," which also sucked, but not as bad as Atwood's Oreck of a novel.
I liked it quite a bit. It's a critique of PostModernism among other things.
I can't believe Robert Duvall agreed to be in it.
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