From: JasonLee@yabbs
To: Xela@yabbs
Subject: re: good book...
Date: Sat Apr  2 01:20:45 1994

Xela said:
I picked this book up last night and I stayed until 4 in the morning to 
finish it... It's called _The Handmaid's Tale_ by Margaret Atwood, and 
it's about this woman who is turned into a baby machine by the 
totalitarian monotheist State which used to be the United States.  Very 
weird and enthralling book.  Very feminist too, which was a twist from the 
other books about totalitiarianism, which take power from the man's POV... 
very interesting. 
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I think it is made even more scary by how extremely possible that future 
is.  While 1984 and others show worlds that are strange to our eyes, The 
Handmaid's Tale is immediate and familiar, so it's more dangerous.
Oh, I think it's actually supposed to be Canada, not the US.  Atwood is 
Canadian.  The book was also made into a fairly good movie, too.

JasonLee