That could happen here! It could happen today! I'm looking forward to reading The Testaments. People talk about this kind of thing a lot, but how many actually believe it deep down? The day the protagonist was not allowed to buy cigarettes was a highlight of the book. This book is a wake up call to those who take things for granted. People tend to have the delusion that the way things are are how they will always be. The whole time you're in one time period, you have the suspense of what happens next in the other. One thing that made this such a page-turner was the chapters alternating between the present situation and the past, before everything changed. 'The Handmaids Tale' depicts a quiet underground rebellion among some of the women of Gilead, known as the Mayday resistance. Although written fairly recently by literary standards, I think it's earned its place alongside 1984 and others as one of the great dystopian novels. I guess I haven't read many dystopian novels (1984 is one that I've read), so maybe that's why The Handmaid's Tale seems so different from anything else I've ever read. It's uniqueness is what really earns it a perfect score. It was quite riveting, though probably not riveting enough to earn five stars on that merit alone. I'm giving this 4 1/2 stars, rounded up to 5.
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