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In Reply to: "The Handmaids Tale" : Comments. posted by AudioHead on December 09, 1999 at 09:12:24:
I had to read this book for one of my required "Women in Literature"-type classes. A real women's lib. book that had a fairly interesting setup, but fell flat after that. The book was readable, but barely. After finishing the book, I rented the movie, but I fell asleep about one-thrid of the way through. Even the Species girl couldn't save it! I guess I didn't miss much! Good luck!
I'm reading Margaret Rosenthal's The Honest Courtesan, her thesis on Venetian courtesans was the basis for the movie "Dangerous Beauty". And I am not in college and have never taken a women's studies course. Boy does my girlfriend have me whipped!
I've seen Dangerous Beauty. Gorgeous film to look at and actually pretty interesting. Have you seen it and is it faithful to the book?
Yeah, I saw the movie first on DVD and they have an interview with the author as an extra feature, so I thought the book would be a decent read. It is academic and dry compared to the melodrama of the film and I doubt that Veronica Franco's day in court was as compellingly triumphant in the film. But the book gives a lot of insight into the politics of the time and really comes down on Oliver Platt's character very hard (a whore for the Church). Still, Franco was one hell of a writer and a fascinating woman. Contrast that to Monica Lewinsky's autobiography (about half a paragraph is probably enough). I was told by my nephew's girlfriend that they showed the movie in her Women's Studies class at Berkeley.Oh God, I'm turning into Phil Donahue. Testosterone, please?
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