Maybe that would help people see that it really is a genre, not some sort of transcendent uncategorizable mark of excellence...
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mid-life crisis, marriage failure, unspoken emotions, plot inertia. Rinse, repeat.
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I even like some literary fiction. Ian McEwan is uneven, but can be great (imo.)
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It's not my favorite, but if it's your fandom, it's your fandom...
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I just really resent the meme that it's somehow automatically better and more serious than everything else.
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anyway. just to annoy everyone, the lit fic touches are kind of why I'm not really into Handmaid's Tale (or anything by Atwood.)
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restraint as a sign of seriousness...Handmaid's Tale is this weirdly low-key dystopia; there's not much anger...
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compared to Marge Piercy, or Joanna Russ, or Tiptree, or Orwell...idk.
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that last section of Handmaid's Tale, with the academics coldly analyzing Offred's ms; it's supposed to be parody of academic callousness
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tbh i thought that was supposed to be displaying the ongoing state of subjection (just smarmier) of women in post-Gilead society
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and thereby critiquing these people who think they're so much better and more enlightened than Gilead, and so by extension us
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