I liked it.

>>9833490
I'm glad someone did.

Clap yourself on the back.

I liked the worldbuilding, I thought some of the characters were surprisingly nuanced in their views and reactions to the society they inhabited and get that it must have had more political significance in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, but my main issue with the novel is the prose. It's alright for the most part but at times it gets to feeling like a bad Virginia Woolf impression that's hard to bear reading.

>>9833554
Also I forgot to mention the ending and especially the epilogue were very weak.

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t. high schooler who just finished his summer reading list

Enjoy your jewish feminist brainwashing cuck

>>9833565
I thought it was very satisfying. You go through the whole novel basically in the dark, not knowing jack shit, and finally have it revealed at the end that the whole regime was a bunch of bullshit.

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>>9833572
Next I'm going to read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.

>>9833576
I see the appeal of wanting to know more about the society itself and the world at large. but I felt it contributed nothing to the rest of the book. If anything, it diminishes it because it voids the suspense of whether or not Offred escapes at the end of the plot; we know it wasn't the Eyes waiting for her or she couldn't have recorded the tapes that held her story. It also beats you over the head drawing parallels between Gilead and real-world societies that were already pretty obvious and didn't need explaining. There's such a thing as being too explicit, you know?