Handmaid's Tale review

Sometimes, you just have to ignore the hype. A book comes out and all the Beautiful People talk about how much they love it, but when you read why they love it, you think the book must just be awful, so you never read it. Then 35 years later you pick it up and discover not only is it a decent book, but all the hype about it was just wrong.Example: The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood. When the book was published in 1986, it was widely and very loudly praised as a giant hit piece on the … [Read more...] about A Tale of Reading About Handmaids