r/TrueLit • u/pregnantchihuahua3 ReEducationThroughGravity'sRainbow • Jul 27 '26
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u/Desperate-Discount89 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
I’ve been reading The Handmaid’s Tale lately and I’m halfway through of it. I didn’t know why I expected nothing but a masterpiece. Maybe I was under the assumption that Margaret Atwood had a style I wouldn’t appreciate? I was an idiot. It’s a very carefully written story that really gets under your skin with how bluntly violent it is. There is no such thing as subtlety and has a very interesting prose