The Handmaid's Tale

The following is my personal and highly subjective response. A very worthy work, with a very significant warning highly relevant for today, but written in a (for me) very annoying and hard to follow style. The narrative jumped around in such a way that it threw me off entirely. I get that the author was writing in an associative manner, however the result was that I was constantly being thrown out of the story, was unable to suspend disbelief and therefore did not engage with the character as a person, making this a very intellectual read, when the subject matter is clearly intended to be gut-punchingly emotional.So, as a novel: not good, 1 starAs a thought experiment: very worthy, good message +1 star.It is possible to be good at both - see the works of [a:Ursula K. Le Guin 874602 Ursula K. Le Guin https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1244291425p2/874602.jpg]