Peter

Many (not only work-related) phenomena described by Graeber are imo crucial glitches of our current society which tend to be absent from a public discourse.
I think that it's not because we are not aware of them - on the contrary, we know very well that there is a problem but have no idea how to deal w/ it. Therefore even discussion is difficult & painful (the same can be said about the climate change).

Finished it and afterwards gave a try to Tarkovsky's adaptation just out of curiosity. My first book which was totally outshined by movie! However movie's a different beast in some sense; arguably more lyrical and focused.

• Realistic dystopia when it comes to physical world of Gilead. No futuristic weapons, aliens, natural disasters, mutants, etc. None of that baloney, thank GOD!
  
  + Questions asked and problems described by Atwood are crucial. Book can greatly serve as a starting point for such a discussion regardless of your gender, religious belief or current year.
  
  + Masochistic (that itch was scratched well).
  
  - Narrative style is really incoherent ( anyone else? just me?). It's a pity because the story had a huge potential.
  
  - I wish I've read this earlier before TV series was a thing (didn't watch it though). Maybe my expectations were too high because of all the hype. I tend to avoid such a hot novels. Now I remembered why.
  
  I feel as I should give this another try later on.

If you have a background in computer science and/or biology, you'll be familiar with many topics and concepts presented here. Dr. Mitchell nonetheless succeeded in creating an introduction to complex systems understandable to wider public.
Big plus: she described actual experiments and didn't waste time with history lessons.

My first Rooney. I intentionally avoided her back in the day - hyped, relationship-focused, often described as Austen for millennials - eeeh, maybe I'm not the target audience, tv series passed me by as well