The TV show was about freedom and the willpower of people who want to gain back their loved ones at all costs, confined in a theocratic dystopia. I was expecting the same here.
Instead. The book does not talk about freedom in an oppressive society, it talks about seeking desires in a world where they are prevented. Offred wants sex, love, a child. She is haunted by memories of the time when she was independent, but she doesn't believe it is possible to escape from Gilead. Even Ofglen isn't able to make a dissident out of her, Offred just turns her back to politics innuendo once she is satisfied with staying with Nick. Even when she is arrested at the end, it is clear that it has nothing to do with politics and subversives.
I probably prefer the Offred shown in the series, committed to find her daughter and to …
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cape_taun ha recensito The Handmaid's Tale di Margaret Atwood
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of …
Review of "The Handmaid's Tale" on 'Goodreads'
5 stelle
The TV show was about freedom and the willpower of people who want to gain back their loved ones at all costs, confined in a theocratic dystopia. I was expecting the same here.
Instead. The book does not talk about freedom in an oppressive society, it talks about seeking desires in a world where they are prevented. Offred wants sex, love, a child. She is haunted by memories of the time when she was independent, but she doesn't believe it is possible to escape from Gilead. Even Ofglen isn't able to make a dissident out of her, Offred just turns her back to politics innuendo once she is satisfied with staying with Nick. Even when she is arrested at the end, it is clear that it has nothing to do with politics and subversives.
I probably prefer the Offred shown in the series, committed to find her daughter and to save her more than to find pleasure, which still I find perfectly justifiable.
The historical notes are just genius, a self-analysis by the book, utterly consistent.
People complaining about the absence of quotation marks: fuck you.
cape_taun ha recensito Princeless - Raven, the pirate princess di Jeremy Whitley (Princeless - Raven, the pirate princess -- Book one)
Fresh off her adventures in the pages of Princeless, Raven is ready to set out …
Review of 'Princeless - Raven, the pirate princess' on 'Goodreads'
1 stella
This is bad. Art just in the average, story uninteresting and utterly not credible even in this non-historical mid-fantasy world, characters whose only personality trait is their sexuality.
I cant see why people here love it so much. Not true, I see it. Every line is a joke about men or patriarchy. I'm usually the one who's mocked for being too feminist, I'm so inclined to meme and stuff. But this is not funny, this is not subtle or sagacious, this is blatant and stupid. Also inclusion at every cost, even at the cost of consistency.
Why do I always waste my time with garbage once in three serious readings? Don't judge me, my friends, it is just a slip
cape_taun ha recensito Alias Vol. 1 di Brian Michael Bendis
Review of 'Alias Vol. 1' on 'Goodreads'
2 stelle
She is a good character, but what the fuck the copy-and-pasted panels? Same facial expression in a whole scene, kinda boring... Also, clients never stop talking... why? I'm not willing to read four pages of background of characters that in twelve pages are gone.
cape_taun ha recensito My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness di Kabi Nagata
The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness …
Review of 'My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness' on 'Goodreads'
4 stelle
A knife between my ribs would be less painful than reading this utterly fragile and heart-breaking manga
Io, Robot di Isaac Asimov
Le Tre Leggi della Robotica:
1.Un robot non può recar danno a un essere umano, né permettere che, a causa …
cape_taun ha valutato Gran bola de helado: 4 stelle
cape_taun ha recensito La perla di John Steinbeck (Aula de literatura No. 18)
A novel.
Review of 'La perla' on 'Goodreads'
4 stelle
Not my kind of short novel, I hated the pessimistic moral of the story, I hated the machismo and the useless Juana.
But there are a few scenes that are magic. In particular the first chapter and the two parts where Kino looks in the pearl and sees the future his family could have if he sold it. When his dreams dissolve, it broke my heart
cape_taun ha recensito Hobo Mom di Charles Forsman
Review of 'Hobo Mom' on 'Goodreads'
5 stelle
Forsman and de Radiguès, what a team (to make me cry)
A wonderful and humble story, full of silences, with an ineluctable end that still stroke me like an hammer, about the constraint of certain roles that goes with adulthood
cape_taun ha valutato The Little World of Liz Climo: 3 stelle
cape_taun ha valutato Bartleby lo scrivano: 5 stelle
Bartleby lo scrivano di Herman Melville
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized …
cape_taun ha recensito SQ cong ni de ming zi kai shi = di Tanjiu
Review of 'SQ cong ni de ming zi kai shi =' on 'Goodreads'
3 stelle
I have kind of a problem with a lot of manga series I randomly pick up and read.
At first I think their essential design is awesome and so unlike all the popular manga I've read, few lines, few colours, absence of background...
Then after a bunch of episodes I begin to notice that the comic is becoming more complex and detailed. BUT I LIKED IT THE WAY IT WAS BEFORE.
Man... I've come to the conclusion that when they have a little success and they also gain a studio with slave-artists that do the job of the author, it's time to drop the series. I'm so hipster that I read only the first few issues and then I toss the comic off the window