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Handmaid's Tale
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Handmaid's Tale
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Released 7 yrs ago (3/2/2005 UTC) at Bookray in Bookray, A Bookray -- Controlled Releases WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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Received the book yesterday. I am looking forward very much to reading it, since the movie is one of my favourites. But it will take some time before I can start with this novel, because I've got 8 (eight!) bookrings and bookrays on my TBR-pile first.But I promise, this book will have the chance to continue its travel. Thank you very much, apapsa, for starting this ray. And thank you also, caffcaff, for sending it! |
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Wow! This book is probably one of the best and certainly one of the most important books I've been reading within years! It left me speechless!It's a MUST for everybody who cares about Human Rights. It's not only - as it may seem - a tale about men regaining power over women, but also a description of how discrimination generally works, may it be gender discrimination, because of race, religion or political attitude. The novel shows especially the power of vocabulary used, how a choice of words can create and manipulate our reality: "Fraternize means to behave like a brother. [...] there was no corresponding word that meant behave like a sister. Sororize, it would have to be." (p. 15) or "'Most of those old guys can't make it anymore,' he says. 'Or they're sterile.' I almost gasp: he's said a forbidden word. Sterile. There is no such thing as a sterile man anymore, not officially. There are only women who are fruitful and women who are barren, that's the law." (p. 79) Last, but not least, let me cite two wonderful quotations: "But this is wrong, nobody dies from a lack of sex. It's a lack of love we die from." (p. 131 f) and "I said there was more than one way of living with your head in the sand and that if Moira thought she could create Utopia by shutting herself up in a women-only enclave ahe was sadly mistaken. Men were not just going to go away, I said. You couldn't just ignore them. That's like saying you should go out and catch syphilis merely because it exists, Moira said." (p. 223) As for Utopia - wouldn't it be nice to think, we're far away from any state like the one described in 'A Handmaid's Tale'? But are we? Remember how the Gilead Regime achieved it's power: "It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time." (p. 225) That's not too far away from our time, or is it? We have to be aware that many countries in our so-called "Civilized World" have set up laws like the "Homeland Security Act" that would restrict people from travelling freely, would allow police to arrest you for several days just beacause you're suspected of anything, that would make data of your bank account or your telephone easily accessible to the authorities. It seems to be quite easy: - blame it on the Islamic terrorists! and "If you're not to hide anything, why not make your data accessible?!" This novel has motivated me to get in contact with the local group of an international Human Rights NGO. I recommend it. Find one, for example amnesty international, Human Rights Watch, FIAN international or any local group... p. s.: Did you know that Harold Pinter, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote the screenplay for the movie "The Handmaid's Tale"? |
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Released 6 yrs ago (10/15/2005 UTC) at by mail in To the next participant, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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Released 6 yrs ago (11/15/2005 UTC) at BookRing in controlled release, .---controlled release---. Switzerland WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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Released 6 yrs ago (4/8/2006 UTC) at Posted to another bookcrosser in Hamburg, Germany, By Post -- Controlled Releases WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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