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I think the audience the writer hopes for is the one that will get the message, take heed, be warned... No one wanted to hear Cassandra, I don't suppose she got invited to parties much, because she spoke and predicted true things no one liked to hear.
I have chosen not to read this one because I resist being depressed and angered by injustice and stupidity with power, because I feel essentially powerless to change these things.
posted by
Ciel
on April 30, 2017 at 10:05 AM
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Dystopian - not a good place. I think more people need to live in the bush.
posted by
adnohr
on April 28, 2017 at 10:11 PM
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Not sure.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on April 28, 2017 at 9:09 PM
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There is a book out there for every reader 
posted by
Chuck_E_Ibrahim
on April 28, 2017 at 9:03 PM
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PatB
Wiley was here
posted by
WileyJohn
on April 28, 2017 at 2:13 PM
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and that of course is why I will never be a famous writer.
I don't follow a trend. I am not a clever joker, I think our Strat is one of the best entertaining writers that I read, I can't write dark and evil, I can't really read much dark and evil anymore. I have just finished reading the History of the battle of Blenheim, John Churchill the Duke of Marlborough's famous battle. now I am starting one called walking the line. Following the Western front of WW1. I love reading and studying history and I learned heaps about how Europe began to take shape into it's more modern countries after that battle.
100 years agho I would have been called a blue stocking which was the end of any chance of making a 'good' marriage. it was better to be known as Horsey than to be Bookish.
posted by
Kabu
on April 28, 2017 at 12:13 PM
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Pat
I know Margaret Atwood is a 'Canadian Icon'. But, like TAPS, I'm no longer interested in dystopian lit and haven't read the 'Handmaiden's Tale' either...I'm actually more interested in understanding the 'Dystopia' we're in the process of creating ourselves at this time...
posted by
Nautikos
on April 28, 2017 at 11:59 AM
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Well I did not know what it meant Pat. Anyway I would not like to write about cruel things of any kind some I have read still lie bleeding in my mind. Of course if folk like to revel in horror that is their choice. At least when it is in history it is not so vivid, so that is a different ball game.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 28, 2017 at 10:37 AM
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My audience here is generally people who I read and vice versa.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on April 28, 2017 at 5:31 AM
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By the time that "The Handmaid's Tale" had come along, I had lost interest in dystopian books. As a teen I read "The Time Machine" and "Brave New World" and "Nineteen Eighty Four" and decided that was enough. Not very fond of "dark" stuff.
posted by
TAPS.
on April 28, 2017 at 5:14 AM
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