Margaret Atwood Appreciation Thread! (She saw these guys coming a mile away...)

[artemisia1]

Author of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Alias Grace", she saw the militant Evangelical Christian Nutrider Fundies coming a mile away.

Can we get a cheer for this fine lady?

http://margaretatwood.ca/

[Mad_Dem_X]

1. She's a fantastic author

I've read The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Testaments" - both are excellent books. Yes, she did see this all coming!

[FarPoint]

2. Absolute magnificent insight

I am Impressed!

[Lil Liberal Laura]

3. A Lot of People Saw this Coming

Atwood is overrated.

[Celerity]

6. Disagree with your shade toss attempt. Welcome to DU btw. Enjoy your stay.

[artemisia1]

10. I saw it coming. I did NOT warn people as well as she has. It's one thing to see something, it is

another to do something about it. SHE DID and that is why I started this appreciation thread.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. This was my original intro to it

I do have Hulu and had started doing some binge watching of the series but took a break and need to get back to it. I know she was involved in that series.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. I could only get through one season

It was well done, but so grim.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. It was pretty depressing

but as I understand, Atwood wanted that level of detail in there to establish that dystopian grimness.

In comparison, the movie was more a distillation of the storyline and concepts, plus an intro to the characters, so I think it made it easier for me to start up with the series after having watched the film years earlier (although sometimes it was hard to not try to do a compare and contrast).

[artemisia1]

11. Natasha Richardson was very good in this. We lost her way too soon. /nt

[ItsjustMe]

8. Margaret Atwood claims atheism is a religion

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=214x89278

[Laha]

9. Maybe

But I'll bet she'd be happy to have a proper conversation with you about why she thinks that. And if presented with a good counter argument she may be persuaded to change her mind.

For all the good that has come from the insight provided by her writing, I won't hold that view against her even though I am an atheist and completely disagree.

I don't think I could hold my own in a debate with her though.

[womanofthehills]

12. Reader's on here might really love her earlier books too

She started writing in the 60’s and has been very prolific. Some of my favorites - Cat’s Eye, Surfacing, Bodily Harm, and Lady Oracle. I’ve read most of her early books 5 or 6 times over the last 40 or so yrs. Great short stories too - one is about all the young people killing the people in old folks homes for ruining the planet..

[artemisia1]

13. She's very prophetic. The one about young people blaming the old for ruining the planet was years

ahead of its time.

[mucifer]

14. Here's a warning from the past about that:

[artemisia1]

15. Kick for the 10 year old rape victim. /nt