Margaret Atwood should fucking die

I have now read the first half dozen pages of The Blind Assassin. It's pretty good, actually.

her poetry is lovely

haha @ i h8 thinking about things i shouldnt post so um i just remember thinking

a) lol one dude basically killed everyone on earth
b) wolvogs really?
c) the pre-disaster world seemed too outlandish and EVERY ONE OF YOUR FEARS IS REAL too be credible
d) i didnt really "get" oryx's character and then she ended up being an actual symbol lol

there was probably more so much just struck me as ridiculous and oftentimes she would describe things (porn, videogames, asian ppl) like her only experience w/ them was through disdainful mentions @ dinner parties

but i mean i kind of liked the book and read it really avidly and will def read the recently published novel in the same world so

i liked the year of the flood book a lot, axully. lots of sexuality, period. not just 'musty female sexaulity' except for old toby and the mushroom lady.

yeah, in fact, the sexuality in blind assassin was not particularly musty, either. maybe i am misremembering and being overly harsh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkkwEXi-zZI

search:

surfacing, lady oracle, cat's eye, alias grace, survival, half of her essays

destroy:

her public persona (see above, and i never want to hear another cbc radio interview about her "longpen" or about how she's "blogging," go away), her last three books, the other half of her essays and nonfiction writing (incl recent "on debt" thing)

when did she say she wasn't a feminist; that is a baldfaced lie and totally lol!

Pretty sure she's just trying to say she disagrees with some elements of the feminist movement... I think she's known some very strident practitioners. This dates way back to interviews for Cat's Eye, but I remember her talking about being criticized by feminists for that book -- mostly for the negative female characters, iirc.

It's good to see the Edible Woman appreciation here. I love it, but thought it had been largely forgotten. It's my second favorite Atwood after Cat's Eye.

Surprising thing I learned today: Claude Jutra (director of Mon oncle Antoine) made a movie of Surfacing in 1981.

Anyone else looking forward to the TV adaptation of Handmaid's Tale?

Me!

really? you had to revive this thread to ask that !?

WTF with this thread title

And the first post! Can we possibly drop this thread, and revive something a little less grossly misogynistic and threatening? :|

for Handmaid's Tale talk I suggest:

Best Album from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale from the mixtapes the story is supposedly reconstructed from according to the Historical Notes in the back

for general Atwood I propose:

taking sides: munro vs atwood

yeah it's gross, lock thread

i'm sorry..didn't do it with bad intentions..

jesus christ.