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Fitri Hariyuda fitri_hariyuda — ** spoiler alert ** Having read this in the same year as hearing about the "Quiverfull Movement" and watching the documentary "Jesus Camp", I'm more than a little shaken. I am as disturbed and fearful as when I read 1984. Read this article from NPR (or listen to it, link provided): In Quiverfull Movement, Birth Control Is Shunned by Barbara Bradley Hagerty http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st... 'Womb Is A Powerful Weapon' That's also the hope of Nancy Campbell, a leader of the Quiverfull movement and author of Be Fruitful and Multiply. "The womb is such a powerful weapon; it's a weapon against the enemy," Campbell says. Campbell has 35 grandchildren. She and her husband stopped at six kids, and it is her great regret. "I think, help! Imagine if we had had more of these children!" Campbell says, adding, "My greatest impact is through my children. The more children I have, the more ability I have to impact the world for God." A Christian God, that is. Campbell says if believers don't starting reproducing in large numbers, biblical Christianity will lose its voice. "We look across the Islamic world and we see that they are outnumbering us in their family size, and they are in many places and many countries taking over those nations, without a jihad, just by multiplication," Campbell says. Still, Quiverfull is a small group, probably 10,000 fast-growing families, mainly in the Midwest and South. But they have large ambitions, says Kathryn Joyce, who has written about the movement in her book Quiverfull: Inside The Christian Patriarchy Movement. "They speak about, 'If everyone starts having eight children or 12 children, imagine in three generations what we'll be able to do,' " Joyce says. " 'We'll be able to take over both halls of Congress, we'll be able to reclaim sinful cities like San Francisco for the faithful, and we'll be able to wage very effective massive boycotts against companies that are going against God's will.' " This is actually happening! This is not fiction, while Atwood's handmaid is fictional. Her novel is hauntingly prescient. I thoroughly enjoyed reading something so well written, so lush with metaphor and symbolism, so many ideas to explore, so many levels of meaning to contemplate. Even the protagonist's name is loaded. The ideas I'm fixating on presently, immediately after finishing, include: a) Suicide--I kept seeing it as a more noble means of coping with her situation, but in the end the message was clear that it would have been stupid, stupid, stupid. Ofglen's life and suffering for naught--she hanged herself when she saw the van, but we now know that the van was clandestinely her salvation! I'm wondering about our ability to cope, adapt, accept, change perspective, survive, revolt, sacrifice, persevere. What would I have done in her shoes? b) The possibility of us all standing by and allowing our society to become totalitarian right under our noses (so probable). Just look at the Patriot Act and other violations of civil rights in the name of safety/security. I loved the new way of phrasing the whole freedom vs. security conflict: the government was able to sell oppression as simply a change from "freedom to" to "freedom from". It doesn't seem so bad that way...I could buy that slogan for a minute, and that terrifies me. c) My adjustment into a cash-free lifestyle. I love the fact that I don't have to carry cash anymore, everything being electronic. When she went to buy cigarettes and all of a sudden was told that her card was denied and she tried to deal with it by calling the bank only to get a recording for days on end, I felt nauseous. How easy would it be for me to lose everything if the government wanted to take it? I'm so vulnerable...I'm back to cash (Thanks, Atwood!) I realize that I'm too comfortable and take too much for granted. If nothing else, this novel helps remind you to pay attention and cherish every freedom we still have. An old tee-shirt slogan comes to mind: "If you're not horrified, you're not paying attention!" I couldn't have agreed more in college. Now, I try to focus on the positive and as a result, I have tunnel vision and am less and less horrified. Maybe I'll remember to be horrified when I'm bound within a red dress. The novel screams, "Wake Up! Pay attention!" Although, what good did it do her mother and Moira? See? This novel is going to have me awake all night, thinking!

Ole Magnus olemagnuskristiansen — My all-time favourite book series.

Julien Rasir julienrasir — There is a part of my brain that recognizes this as a brilliant book, perhaps one of my favorites of the Updike novels I've read so far, in terms of language, style, ans skill of characterizations, but another part of my brain so thoroughly despises the protagonist, Rabbit, that I need to put it aside and finish it at another time, because I'm just not enjoying it. I'm sure, or at least, I'm hoping, that Rabbit grows, changes, matures, blah, blah, blah somewhere down the road, but right now, I'm not willing to accompany his self-centered, immature ass on that journey.