The Handmaid's Tale

What can I say about this book?... It's a classic. It's something I would like to reread. It's something I wish I read in high school. Offred is such an engaging and interesting narrator. Her voice is what really captured me throughout the book. Seriously, there are so many discussions that can be sparked from this book, so I'll just leave you with this quote from Valerie Martin's introduction to the Everyman's Library edition of this novel. It pretty much sums up a lot of my thoughts about The Handmaid's Tale:

“It is not an exculpatory tone; the thin light it sheds will not illuminate much. It won't tell us why people were so cruel and unjust then, but it can remind us of the way we would, the way we do, on any given day, explain our participation in the injustices we accept and perpetuate. It is what we do.

...Offred's voice speaks clearly, and this is what it says: History will catch up with us, it isn't dead any more than we are, it lives in and upon us, parasitically, like the bacteria in our intestines, without which we would die. If you want to see the future, keep looking steadily behind you, because the future, no matter how much we may pretend we don't know it, is history.”

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.