Thank you for an engrossing experience. Such hopelessness, desperation, loneliness and futility that I don't want in my life or anyone's for that matter.
I am curious on your thoughts on the disastrous withdrawal of the US- I wished we had secured the capital and airport - what we call "Green Zoned" and made a commitment to the Afghan people...
@@CombatMosquitoTrainer As far as I know there was no hard date on the table. Biden wiped out our border security with the stroke of a pen on his first day
I live in England but I’ve been hearing about banned books in America so this is getting really scary and Margaret Atwood was so prophetic and understanding about totalitarian societies and the breakdown of democracy and the fact that America’s banning books is just terrifying
Yes. It is terrifying with what's happening here. They want chattel and power. They want to combine church and state. I'm thinking of fleeing myself. ❤ A republic is a voluntary exercise. Taking away our choices.
Lol we don't ban books in America 😂 what propaganda are you listening to? Sometimes certain libraries decide not to carry certain books but you can always go buy the book or find a library that carrys it
@@JennyLane8666 Are any books banned in the US? During the first half of the 2022-23 school year PEN America's Index of School Book Bans lists 1,477 instances of individual books banned, affecting 874 unique titles, an increase of 28 percent compared to the prior six months, January - June 2022.20 Apr 2023
Elizebeth moss is superb as a narrator !!!her voice is soothing ,but so full of life ,thank u for this amazing audiobook (ps I’m obsessed with the tv show too )
I am mourning the loss of my beloved cat, Dexter, who passed away 1 week ago at the age of 15 years 11 months. Elizabeth Moss' voice is soothing yet engaging. I feel OK for a little while when I listen to a few chapters at a time. Thank you.
So sorry for your loss of your beloved Dexter. Almost 16 years...that is a long time. Longer than many people have had their children. Our pets become our children many times. I believe you will see your Dexter again. May God comfort you in your sorrow. Rest well Dexter. 🙏🏻💙
I work with a cat rescue, so I’ve had a hell of a lot of cats in my life, both rescued ones that I’ve rehomed, and my own. If your companion made it past 15 years, then you did everything right and gave him an absolutely wonderful life. When you are ready, why not consider honoring what he brought into your life by opening your home to another cat desperately in need of the same kind of love and care? Think about it.
And now we embark on the start of part handmaids tale and part 1984. Curious as i am, it wont end well for those who like freedom and equality. Thanks mr. Trump
@@everanjones6929 No, he hasn’t. Clearly you all are watching way too much CNN, MSNBC, etc. Living in fear won’t do anyone any good. I’ve only ever watched the Handmaiden’s Tale tv show a few years back, but I can tell you as a woman and with full confidence. The United States isn’t going to become like Handmaiden’s Tale.
@@heatedbadge97 You know what? I think it’s embarrassing to act like this just because Trump won the presidency and you don’t like him. They’re woman in Afghanistan who quite literally have no rights, I mean they aren’t even allowed to speak in public without threat of punishment. Those are the woman truly suffering a life similar to Handmaiden’s Tale. And yet we have woman like you ( I’m assuming you’re a woman here, apologies if you’re not ) and the other commentator I previously replied to. Who want to fear monger and over react just because Trump won the presidency. Do I claim Trump is a perfect man for the job, no of course not no one is without any flaws. But to sit here and actually act like the U.S is going to end up like Handmaiden’s Tale when theirs woman out there in the middle east who truly are living a similar reality is just so childish to me and really shows your ignorance rn.
Here in the U.K we have had literature & films censored 🤬. I wasn’t attacking the USA I’m just saying banning books in libraries & schools is a serious worry !!!
@@wendyeames5758 Oh, seriously? Eww. Kinda wish I hadn't learned that, since this reading is actually quite well done. Well, there IS at least still an older audio version out there, narrated by Claire Danes, I think (except now, we're probably gonna find out that *she* worships Cthulhu or something... 😶)
@@gametheorymedia Unfortunately Claire Danes also sucks. She's racist towards people in developing nations :/ for example, she greatly degraded the Philippines, where she filmed one of her movies. BUT we can still like the work despite the awfulness of the people involved. I think the art can stand on their own, apart from their artists. Margaret Atwood is potentially a TERF, however, we can still recognize that her stories have incredible societal importance and beautiful writing without condoning those beliefs of her or perpetuating them. So enjoy the work, as long as the work doesn't show the crassness of its maker.
@@orphandextro7046seriously? She is incredible. The diction, the prosody, the fine nuances of expression. The unobtrusive accent. It is the whole package. She is amazing!
Thank you Elizabeth Moss for narrating a book that's a beautiful and harsh important reality check for the USA This is an important book that all people should and must read.. This is happening in the USA right nowadays. Women's rights are being taken away. Children are being left to suffer. This is a book that needs to be read by people. It is a beautiful narration but it is also a warning.
@@krymsonfire8283 Atwood has regular been prophetic in her writing . Globally woman are suppressed . Woman have genital mutilation . Just because you don’t see it happening to you it’s happening to women all around the world !
@@krymsonfire8283 what isn’t ? Atwood researched her book from lots of totalitarianism also Handsmaid was written with her fear of Reagan using the extreme right religious fanaticism & were it could lead !
Perfect timing for the current state of the world. But seriously i remember reading this briefly in highschool and because of recent events i wanted to revisit this
@@chrislabonne1068 I think that's because I was in highschool 2 years ago (graduated) and I'm in Canada 💔 wish you luck over there if your in the US as things progress
The narration is so well done. Phenomenal work by Elisabeth Moss. Thanks a lot for the upload, this is helping me a great deal with my school project for which I have to read this book (I prefer listening instead) and make a presentation on it.
Did you hear it already? Is this youtube video the whole audiobook? I have to read it for the same reason... But the real audiobook is an hour longer isn't it?😅 I just want to be sure before I read it...
@@luisa13046 This is the full audiobook, it's just missing the "Historical Notes" part, which you'll be able to find on the final 10 pages of the novel. Perhaps that part is available somewhere online as well!
@@RideAcrossTheRiver really? It seemed cut off but I reasoned that omit only felt that way because the series was longer. Oh now I really want the ending!!!
I don’t remember there being so many ads on this video but I can’t listen to it while falling asleep anymore thanks to them and that’s the only time I listen to this audiobook. So that sucks
Don't discount "fiction" where it applies to literature. The best "fiction" always pulls from reality/the 'real' world. A master storyteller always gives you the truth, even when they're making up a tale. More often than not, fiction is one of the best ways to obtain a new perspective on our lives and current events. What's frightening about this story is that people said these things could never happen. Especially in America. Yet, as you pointed out, she didn't pull them from thin air. She pulled from headlines and the news. It happened back then, and it's still happening (or happening again), YES, even in "America".
Just started watching the show after listening to this. It’s sooooooooooo good! If you liked the book in anyway I highly recommend and I’m barely through the first season
I have watched the TV series up until the 1st episode of the second season, I can't watch any more too much brutality it hurts to watch any more of it!!! I prefer listening to the audio book!
@@joanna4289, I fast forward the brutal scenes. The sad thing is, all of this has really happened in real life! We have to pay attention, that it NEVER happens again. That’s why is so important to go vote 🗳️
This book has never been banned, I bought this on the book of the month club before you were born. Liberals are the ones who want to put people in camps.
@catherinehume9193 is it not?? when conservative Christians are banning abortion and trying to ban birth control? when Christians still justify rape from how the women are dressed. When infertility is so often blamed on the women in a relationship. When Christian politicians are fighting for teen marriage. Many of the things in the book directly happened to slave women in America in the past, or are still happening today in America and other places.
Certain people that hold certain titles in a certain country really just read this and said: "wow! Sounds like heaven! Let's make it a reality!" Usually art imitiates life, but in this case it's the other way around.
@@orphandextro7046 mormans are the ones into polygamy. morman doctrine is pure evil and it is what the handmaids tale describes. you should check out a Sherlock Holms video called a scarlet study here on youtube . otherwise just learn about morman nonsense any other way
@@orphandextro7046😂😂😂 considering the speaker is a Republican and the Democrats are the ones pushing agendas and propaganda down everyone's throats you might want to stop the Kool aid dude 😂😂😂
Im reading this for my college english class. It makes me angry breaking down all the ways people are being violated I know its intentional but its scary when I automatically compare it to present events.
Thank you for this. The voice acting was great and complimented the book well. I used this video to help with my motivation when reading the class book. It really helped me to picture everything in my head.
I almost finished the book, but it was just dragging on. I came here to finish while doing deliveries. I'm glad I didn't try to push myself to finish reading. This was not what I expected given the hype from my sister who watched the show.
Atwood quote “It's shunning time in Madison County, Virginia, where the school board recently banished my novel The Handmaid's Tale from the shelves of the high-school library.
Upon your research, does it look as though we are heading in this direction? Problem, action, solution. It stands to reason, that if things keep going extreme left, than the extreme right will slowly show its head as well?
It's shunning time in Madison County, Virginia, where the school board recently banished my novel The Handmaid's Tale from the shelves of the high-school library.
@@johnnarogers2088It looks like we are heading towards a duplicate of the CCP’s society. Don’t go along with the social credit system or facial ID if you enjoy freedom.
That is horrible. I mean, the fact that this is actually happening in some parts of the world is horrible like I mean, think about how many the vast that some people are actually living in this nightmare. World, what the book is talking man is just sad. And scary.
It's never been fiction. It's a combination of real events that have taken place. It would just be a new reality for the US...but that's what they voted for
There is a flaw in the timeline, this posting can't be June's 3rd because each posting is 2 yrs, she last saw her little girl when her little girl was 5 yrs and was 8 yrs in June's time, that is 3 years, if June was into her 3rd posting she would be into her 5th year as a handmaid. Apart from that the narration is great!!!
😢devastating the second time around. I know more now, have seen, read, heard and experienced more. The laws concerning civil disobedience have changed; the laws concerning Women’s bodies have changed. Decades ago , the novel read as radically defiant of certain social norms. Certain advancements in the status of women, certain milestones in every human endeavor made by women, globally. In hindsight, that seems performative, excellence for sure but looking back now how easily overturned or stalked as time passed. The intransigence of what now appears as biological imperative is put simply, devastating. Are human beings perfectible or even salvageable begs the question. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…
I can’t get it out of my head that Elisabeth moss is a big part of Scientology (American cult that Tom cruise is part of too) and how full circle it is that she’s the main role in a cult type show
Elisabeth Moss was raised in the cult - the indoctrination, mind control and thought control of cults is very powerful. I know, because I was born into a cult (the Jehovah’s Witnesses), but I “woke up” and separated myself from it. All of my JW friends started shunning me right away, it was terrifying! Extreme shunning is also practiced in Scientology (called “disconnect”). Hopefully she will eventually also recognize how wrong it is - and leave!!
A superb reading of a brilliant and terrifyingly familiar novel. The hopelessness is tangible. I want to take a break and finish later but I feel guilty for doing so.
Is this actually Elizabeth reading this??? Or is this AI?? I can’t even tell anymore due to AI becoming so advanced in the past year. After Alabama Supreme Court ruled the fact that frozen embryos are now considered children due to a Bible verse, that brung me back to this. I was 16 when I was introduced to the show and loved it. Always come back to this.
I’m surprised, Elizabeth Moss didn’t wake up to the fact, that she’s in a cult herself, after playing her role in the Handmaid’s Tale!!! Hopefully she will eventually.
I see a few comments saying this wouldn't happen or it hasn't happened or it is going to happen when it is happening right now! I think people just are unwilling to see what's really going on right in front of them and I think that is truly sad. Since it isn't happening to you it isn't happening to them right? Blind and ignorant. Ignorance isn't bliss as they say, it is stupidity and naivety.
I love the show and book, and I am most likely in agreement with you. Can you elaborate a bit on how this is happening right now? Where do we see examples like these in society? Banning books, people like Pearl,... But what else??
@@bananafriel As the Taliban take over, women are forced to out of their jobs, not allowed to own land again and drive and have their own bank accounts, forcing underage girls to marry old men and are being persecuted, r*ped and murdered for how they dress and how America has banned the right to abortions including talking about the right to terminate a pregnancy of r*ped victims, with their Politian's being anti-gay and anti-abortion and anti-trans to not even understanding what the consequences of forcing an entire population into their narrow world view will cost them by forcing women to give birth against her will and also not understanding that it is a healthcare violation and that many woman will resort to unsavory means, which means a lot of first responders and the like will be finding dead babies and dead women. The book has taken inspiration from real life historical events such as The Salem witch trials and the Romanian dictator that wanted to increase birth rates with his extreme pro-natalist views. I do not think men in power realize what will happen if this continues, women put up with a lot but this time they have gone to far, there is only so much they can do, of course I try to have a little bit more faith in humanity just because I know a lot of men are also angry about this but not enough to change anything. The handmaids tale is as relevant then as it is now in my opinion.
@@bananafriel The Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. The forced births in red states that have the least social safety nets will produce an army of hungry, angry and poorly educated young people. They will be the foot soldiers, doing the bidding of whatever warmonger is in charge in 20 years.
Many people like the idea "from each according to her ability, to each according to his need." And doing things beneficial to the "common good". They also like to ignore the fact that most authoritarians preach these ideas.
@@bananafrielthink about the society they talk about “before”… it kind of aligns with what’s going on now and we are going into a era of censorship and control. They are trying to police speech, we see it on platforms like Facebook, instagram, youtube. They create divisiveness with race, sexual orientation, between men and women, etc. Some examples of what’s going on in society: Sexual “freedom”, abortions are no longer taboo: in fact they are encouraged, marriage to a lot of people is no longer sacred, we live in a society where anything goes: sex sells, criminals aren’t punished, and they are literally sterilizing people with experimental surgeries and drugs, and there is literal biological warfare going on with all these “new illnesses/diseases” to name a few. They are creating chaos to become “saviors” of the people to try to control everyone and everything. My only savior is Jesus Christ! Hope this helps!
If Offred was relating the part where Moira escaped, janine would have still been pregnant, wouldn't she have been excused from testifying? Wouldn't the aunts know that making the mother.to.be anxious would also make the unborn baby anxious too?
I'm here 6 days after our election didn't go as planned. As women, we can't go quietly. We are starting a resistance movement and we won't be silenced! 💙
This serie, from the start took me back to mulhas and left revolution in my homeland, Iran. took me to the halis, rooms and huge garden of Ambassadors "s Residance, where i lived for 8 years. Where as the responsible of diplomatic mission,'s wife I had to became a "belfegore, fantome de Louvre". I had to get rid of myself, the woman i was...it is the story of us..
For those who have followed by Banned Book of the Week series, this week’s entry may feel strange. To this point, the books have focused on LGBTQ characters and themes - one of the biggest reasons books are being banned in 2022. Last week’s piece, for example, covered All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson:
They are not lgbt books. They are paedophilic books. Please learn. Ruined Leon, a Black bisexual youtuber, covers the books that are being removed from libraries regularly. He has to cover the pictures or he would be banned by TH-cam and he has to bleep out what he reads from the books or he would be banned by TH-cam for paedophilic content. Please go and look up what you are thinking about. It is insulting to us lgbt people that these books are in the library under lgbt content, and it is insulting that lgbt groups are trying to keep the paedophilic books in the library. We have tried so hard for so many years to show heterosexuals that we are not paedophiles. And then this happens.
Since ppl know that this book is based off stuff that’s actually happened, let me tell you another thing, in the beginning around chapter 6 offred talks about doctors being snitched on by informants and how women’s testimony as witness didn’t count, this is a part of the religion i grew up in, in Islam if you say ur raped, 1 man’s testimony can cancel yours out. Even if it happened. Your rapist can just say you’re lying since women’s testimony is only 1/2 of a man’s.
this is NOT true. if you have proof of a rape, ANY testimony of any gender CANNOT cancel you out. research deeper and don't misinterpret Islam.The PROOF is still taken into account. in fact, if they found out a man LIED and accuse a woman of being a rapist , HE would be lashed. this isn't a thing even in US civil laws where the accuser of false rape didn't get that.
I feel the same, seriously..… but, tbh, picturing myself, and if I had a daughter, that someone stole from me - for no real reason, when she already had a family (and SHOULD have been respected as just that); she wasn’t a baby, she was a kid - I wouldn’t be able to leave her; and in that, take many risks.. in every way I could 💜💜💜
In the testaments, we focus on aunt Lydia and junes two daughters Hannah and Holly/Nicole, Hannah grows up in gilead and becomes a pearl girl where she brings Nicole to gilead from Canada, she thinks she is recruiting her to gilead, but it’s a mayday plan to rescue them both, at the end of the novel we meet June and she gets to hug her daughters, but she got to raise neither of them, we are to assume that June escaped with Nicole and placed her with another family not so closely involved with mayday for her protection
It ends like that lol. The show continues after the book ending in the middle of season 1. The Testaments takes place I think 10-15 years in the future and June isn't in it at all
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Thanks so much you're amazing 🙏🏻🙏🏻😭
Women are dying and every day their rights are disappearing. Children are suffering. Wealthy men have all the power. This book is about the present.
America hating Democrat Ilhan Omar wants this in the States- modern day Sharia Law...
Present and future of the US. Project 2025 in on the way
@triwilliams6082 Taiban rule thanks to Biden
Beautiful narration by Elizabeth Moss. Her voice is June. June is her voice.
Thank you for an engrossing experience. Such hopelessness, desperation, loneliness and futility that I don't want in my life or anyone's for that matter.
I’m from Afghanistan, the land of the Taliban. This series hits home on a different level for me 😢
It was written with Iran in mind
Understanding why this book is written is important.
I am curious on your thoughts on the disastrous withdrawal of the US-
I wished we had secured the capital and airport - what we call "Green Zoned" and made a commitment to the Afghan people...
@@rumrnr78 trump left us no choice with his exit date.
@@CombatMosquitoTrainer As far as I know there was no hard date on the table. Biden wiped out our border security with the stroke of a pen on his first day
I love that Elizabeth Moss narrarates this and was the actress to portray her
I live in England but I’ve been hearing about banned books in America so this is getting really scary and Margaret Atwood was so prophetic and understanding about totalitarian societies and the breakdown of democracy and the fact that America’s banning books is just terrifying
*banned 😂
Yes. It is terrifying with what's happening here. They want chattel and power. They want to combine church and state. I'm thinking of fleeing myself. ❤ A republic is a voluntary exercise. Taking away our choices.
Lol we don't ban books in America 😂 what propaganda are you listening to? Sometimes certain libraries decide not to carry certain books but you can always go buy the book or find a library that carrys it
@@JennyLane8666 Are any books banned in the US?
During the first half of the 2022-23 school year PEN America's Index of School Book Bans lists 1,477 instances of individual books banned, affecting 874 unique titles, an increase of 28 percent compared to the prior six months, January - June 2022.20 Apr 2023
@@jordan-st7kx it’s not propaganda it’s out there & American friends are telling me
Love how Moss can emulate Moira, Janine,Aunt Lydia, Luke, June's mother and os many other characters voices from the show into the audiobook
As I'm sure you know, the book came first
Elizabeth Moss is absolutely great as a narrator.
I read this and the color purple, as a young paratrooper, way back when. As Ms. Moss reads, my heart is filled.
Elizebeth moss is superb as a narrator !!!her voice is soothing ,but so full of life ,thank u for this amazing audiobook (ps I’m obsessed with the tv show too )
I am mourning the loss of my beloved cat, Dexter, who passed away 1 week ago at the age of 15 years 11 months.
Elizabeth Moss' voice is soothing yet engaging. I feel OK for a little while when I listen to a few chapters at a time.
Thank you.
Sorry for your loss! ❤️
@@barefootcleaners thank you. Grief sucks., 💔
So sorry for your loss of your beloved Dexter. Almost 16 years...that is a long time. Longer than many people have had their children. Our pets become our children many times. I believe you will see your Dexter again. May God comfort you in your sorrow. Rest well Dexter. 🙏🏻💙
@@onlyredones thank you so much. ❤️
I work with a cat rescue, so I’ve had a hell of a lot of cats in my life, both rescued ones that I’ve rehomed, and my own. If your companion made it past 15 years, then you did everything right and gave him an absolutely wonderful life. When you are ready, why not consider honoring what he brought into your life by opening your home to another cat desperately in need of the same kind of love and care? Think about it.
And now we embark on the start of part handmaids tale and part 1984.
Curious as i am, it wont end well for those who like freedom and equality.
Thanks mr. Trump
Stop with the fear mongering. We’re not gonna end up like Handmaiden’s Tale 😂😂😂😂
@SingingCicadas we might, he has given power to people who are in the Christian cults that this book is based on
@@everanjones6929 No, he hasn’t. Clearly you all are watching way too much CNN, MSNBC, etc. Living in fear won’t do anyone any good. I’ve only ever watched the Handmaiden’s Tale tv show a few years back, but I can tell you as a woman and with full confidence. The United States isn’t going to become like Handmaiden’s Tale.
At this point, it is no longer our lesson to learn
@@heatedbadge97 You know what? I think it’s embarrassing to act like this just because Trump won the presidency and you don’t like him. They’re woman in Afghanistan who quite literally have no rights, I mean they aren’t even allowed to speak in public without threat of punishment. Those are the woman truly suffering a life similar to Handmaiden’s Tale. And yet we have woman like you ( I’m assuming you’re a woman here, apologies if you’re not ) and the other commentator I previously replied to. Who want to fear monger and over react just because Trump won the presidency. Do I claim Trump is a perfect man for the job, no of course not no one is without any flaws. But to sit here and actually act like the U.S is going to end up like Handmaiden’s Tale when theirs woman out there in the middle east who truly are living a similar reality is just so childish to me and really shows your ignorance rn.
I’ve started running to this because it gives me enough rage to black out for 15 minutes
Here in the U.K we have had literature & films censored 🤬. I wasn’t attacking the USA I’m just saying banning books in libraries & schools is a serious worry !!!
Fahrenheit 451.
I’m in the US and it’s very scary for me. We’re slowly going backwards
💯 agreed
There's some serious sexually explicit books that don't belong in a school library. Let's be real.
@@madkatt333 I have an 18 year old, recent grad in NC. That book was not in the library because I asked her. What state has this book in school
The book the TV series and the audio book, astonishingly narrated by Elisabeth Moss are all, an endless triumph
My opinion of her has been bruised since learning she's a scientologist.
@@wendyeames5758 Oh, seriously? Eww. Kinda wish I hadn't learned that, since this reading is actually quite well done. Well, there IS at least still an older audio version out there, narrated by Claire Danes, I think (except now, we're probably gonna find out that *she* worships Cthulhu or something... 😶)
@@gametheorymedia Unfortunately Claire Danes also sucks. She's racist towards people in developing nations :/ for example, she greatly degraded the Philippines, where she filmed one of her movies.
BUT we can still like the work despite the awfulness of the people involved. I think the art can stand on their own, apart from their artists. Margaret Atwood is potentially a TERF, however, we can still recognize that her stories have incredible societal importance and beautiful writing without condoning those beliefs of her or perpetuating them.
So enjoy the work, as long as the work doesn't show the crassness of its maker.
@@wendyeames5758 could you elaborate on that please? I'm just really confused by what you mean by that.
There is also The Handmaid's Tale graphic novel - based on the original book.
I want every audio book read by her. She is fantastic ❤
She’s good, but I wouldn’t go that far. Some people can change their voices completely, they deserve some credit.
👍🏼♥️😀
@@orphandextro7046seriously? She is incredible. The diction, the prosody, the fine nuances of expression. The unobtrusive accent. It is the whole package. She is amazing!
Do you know of any other books read by her?
Thank you Elizabeth Moss for narrating a book that's a beautiful and harsh important reality check for the USA This is an important book that all people should and must read.. This is happening in the USA right nowadays. Women's rights are being taken away. Children are being left to suffer. This is a book that needs to be read by people. It is a beautiful narration but it is also a warning.
Poverty affects everyone, especially the young. Socialism kills peoples souls. This book is trivial by comparison.
@@dlee3710explain socialism. I think you are confusing it with communism.
They are not the same.
I am so enjoying this wonderful book. Thank you, Elisabeth.
Oh wow! When read by such an accomplished actress! Such a great narrator.
4😅2 red or
This is so much different and better than the series. Thank you for sharing !!!!!
Thank you for this Prophetic book which has now been made into a fantastic series so relevant more than ever
What exactly is prophetic about it?
@@krymsonfire8283 Atwood has regular been prophetic in her writing . Globally woman are suppressed . Woman have genital mutilation . Just because you don’t see it happening to you it’s happening to women all around the world !
@@krymsonfire8283 what isn’t ? Atwood researched her book from lots of totalitarianism also Handsmaid was written with her fear of Reagan using the extreme right religious fanaticism & were it could lead !
Faux
The fear is as real now as it was then
Looks like this will be reality in 2024 onwards , that’s why I find it so hard to listen to again . We are here 😢
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Perfect timing for the current state of the world. But seriously i remember reading this briefly in highschool and because of recent events i wanted to revisit this
What were the recent events? I don’t recall hearing this in the news
You read this in HS? Wow! Were you ever lucky to have had an intelligent rational HS curriculum.
@@chrislabonne1068 I think that's because I was in highschool 2 years ago (graduated) and I'm in Canada 💔 wish you luck over there if your in the US as things progress
Even more now with our new speaker of the house.
@@orphandextro7046😂😂😂
The narration is so well done. Phenomenal work by Elisabeth Moss.
Thanks a lot for the upload, this is helping me a great deal with my school project for which I have to read this book (I prefer listening instead) and make a presentation on it.
Did you hear it already? Is this youtube video the whole audiobook? I have to read it for the same reason... But the real audiobook is an hour longer isn't it?😅 I just want to be sure before I read it...
@@luisa13046 This is the full audiobook, it's just missing the "Historical Notes" part, which you'll be able to find on the final 10 pages of the novel. Perhaps that part is available somewhere online as well!
Ah ok, thank you!😊
Wow! So well read! What a powerful and frightening tale!
Incomplete reading. Where was the ending?
@@RideAcrossTheRiver really? It seemed cut off but I reasoned that omit only felt that way because the series was longer. Oh now I really want the ending!!!
@@mamaxantia The book ends with a university lecture. Why was that cut out?
I just got out her sequel The Testaments, brushing up on Book 1 first.
Time to Vote 🗳
About what?
remember, not voting is still a vote!
@@incogxccabout making sure this book remains a work of fiction and doesn't become a prophecy.
Yea, RED
Vote red !!!
I don’t remember there being so many ads on this video but I can’t listen to it while falling asleep anymore thanks to them and that’s the only time I listen to this audiobook. So that sucks
Listening after the 2024 presidential election.....
I thought I was the only one 😢
Me too. I keep bawling at every flash back about her daughter. I’m terrified for my own children after this election.
Same
Me too!!❤🎉
Atwood pulled from actual events that happened throughout the ages. None of it is fiction.
Exactly from global totalitarianism & also with Reagan close association with extreme right religious organisations
Don't discount "fiction" where it applies to literature. The best "fiction" always pulls from reality/the 'real' world. A master storyteller always gives you the truth, even when they're making up a tale. More often than not, fiction is one of the best ways to obtain a new perspective on our lives and current events. What's frightening about this story is that people said these things could never happen. Especially in America. Yet, as you pointed out, she didn't pull them from thin air. She pulled from headlines and the news. It happened back then, and it's still happening (or happening again), YES, even in "America".
It's 'fiction' it's just fiction at its very best, with a heavy dose of truth and reality.
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That is the scary part. Knowing that not only has it happened but also that it could happen again. 😖
Just started watching the show after listening to this. It’s sooooooooooo good! If you liked the book in anyway I highly recommend and I’m barely through the first season
I have watched the TV series up until the 1st episode of the second season, I can't watch any more too much brutality it hurts to watch any more of it!!!
I prefer listening to the audio book!
@@joanna4289, I fast forward the brutal scenes. The sad thing is, all of this has really happened in real life! We have to pay attention, that it NEVER happens again. That’s why is so important to go vote 🗳️
What a great narrator she is one of the absolute best so loved it ❤ty miss elisabeth moss ⚘
The Banned Book of the Week: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Terrible Dangers of Hitting Too Close to Home
This book has never been banned, I bought this on the book of the month club before you were born. Liberals are the ones who want to put people in camps.
It is not Christianity and Christian countries that practice these things today.
@catherinehume9193 is it not?? when conservative Christians are banning abortion and trying to ban birth control? when Christians still justify rape from how the women are dressed. When infertility is so often blamed on the women in a relationship. When Christian politicians are fighting for teen marriage. Many of the things in the book directly happened to slave women in America in the past, or are still happening today in America and other places.
@@catherinehume9193 this can and has happened in all religious states
@@catherinehume9193it’s your refusal to believe it will happen in the US is why women are losing autonomy rights daily.
Certain people that hold certain titles in a certain country really just read this and said: "wow! Sounds like heaven! Let's make it a reality!"
Usually art imitiates life, but in this case it's the other way around.
Ya like mitt Romney
@@ArcheryRuleZmore like Mike Johnson now
@@orphandextro7046 mormans are the ones into polygamy. morman doctrine is pure evil and it is what the handmaids tale describes. you should check out a Sherlock Holms video called a scarlet study here on youtube . otherwise just learn about morman nonsense any other way
@@orphandextro7046😂😂😂 considering the speaker is a Republican and the Democrats are the ones pushing agendas and propaganda down everyone's throats you might want to stop the Kool aid dude 😂😂😂
This just got taken down by the og channel, so thank you so much!
They took it from me too. Thank you. ❤
This book is being banned in the USA so read listen b4 it’s to late !!! And likely to be here in the U.K & other countries!
@@EM-lz9kgit’s been banned?! Holy SHIT. I need to buy the book soon then
Great timing Thank You...Please Yall VOTE
Thank you for posting this. I've been wanting to read this book for a long time.
I hate living in America I am scared why does this feel so real I just wanna be able to live and be happy with who I am
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Really? Why? In what way does this book feel real?
Maybe North Korea would be a better fit
Maybe Saudi Arabia a more realistic depiction.
It’s the whole world honey. Most countries are patriarchal
She is so utterly poetic. Margaret the Reflector....
Im reading this for my college english class. It makes me angry breaking down all the ways people are being violated I know its intentional but its scary when I automatically compare it to present events.
Thank you for this. The voice acting was great and complimented the book well. I used this video to help with my motivation when reading the class book. It really helped me to picture everything in my head.
Glad it was helpful!
I almost finished the book, but it was just dragging on. I came here to finish while doing deliveries. I'm glad I didn't try to push myself to finish reading. This was not what I expected given the hype from my sister who watched the show.
The show is way more dramatic, more action. It's different from the book, so I recommend you to watch it as well!
I’m watching the tv series right now! Amazing, superb acting and the stories are unpredictable and captivating. I can only recommend watching it!!!!!
Atwood quote “It's shunning time in Madison County, Virginia, where the school board recently banished my novel The Handmaid's Tale from the shelves of the high-school library.
*Your* novel?
@@ElaAusDemTal quote from Atwood
@@ElaAusDemTal no I put up a Atwood quote I thought ppl would see that yet iv added her name the brilliant author
@@ElaAusDemTal?😂😂 🤓🤓🤓oh the irony ....you call ppl out for a misspelt word( probably predictive) and you can't even read a simple quote !!!!!
So?
holy shit thank you, I'm making a project about dystopias for my uni and it will be super useful to quickly "read" one more
Nice to hear that. Please share with your friends and subscribe to my channel.
Upon your research, does it look as though we are heading in this direction? Problem, action, solution. It stands to reason, that if things keep going extreme left, than the extreme right will slowly show its head as well?
It's shunning time in Madison County, Virginia, where the school board recently banished my novel The Handmaid's Tale from the shelves of the high-school library.
@@johnnarogers2088 the extreme right is banning books this is one of them !
@@johnnarogers2088It looks like we are heading towards a duplicate of the CCP’s society. Don’t go along with the social credit system or facial ID if you enjoy freedom.
If project 2025 happens this story may not be fiction anymore.
It wasn't really fiction then. Atwood got the idea from Iran. It's happening in Hungary.
how exactly
That is horrible. I mean, the fact that this is actually happening in some parts of the world is horrible like I mean, think about how many the vast that some people are actually living in this nightmare. World, what the book is talking man is just sad. And scary.
We need to do everything we can to stop project 2025 form Happening
It's never been fiction. It's a combination of real events that have taken place. It would just be a new reality for the US...but that's what they voted for
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I don't think I've ever listened to a book read as well as this one.
OMG the ending thou....thank you for this...loved it the voice so captivating ❤❤
Gilead -the US might resemble this if trump gets back in and Vance gets Project 25 established...
Hate to break it to you😔
There is a flaw in the timeline, this posting can't be June's 3rd because each posting is 2 yrs, she last saw her little girl when her little girl was 5 yrs and was 8 yrs in June's time, that is 3 years, if June was into her 3rd posting she would be into her 5th year as a handmaid. Apart from that the narration is great!!!
😢devastating the second time around. I know more now, have seen, read, heard and experienced more. The laws concerning civil disobedience have changed; the laws concerning Women’s bodies have changed. Decades ago , the novel read as radically defiant of certain social norms. Certain advancements in the status of women, certain milestones in every human endeavor made by women, globally. In hindsight, that seems performative, excellence for sure but looking back now how easily overturned or stalked as time passed. The intransigence of what now appears as biological imperative is put simply, devastating. Are human beings perfectible or even salvageable begs the question. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…
Remember to go vote 🗳️ next week! We can’t let a fascist win!!!!
Hits perfectly with what’s happening now🩵🩵🩵🇨🇦🩵🩵🩵
Even more so now.
I can’t get it out of my head that Elisabeth moss is a big part of Scientology (American cult that Tom cruise is part of too) and how full circle it is that she’s the main role in a cult type show
Elisabeth Moss was raised in the cult - the indoctrination, mind control and thought control of cults is very powerful. I know, because I was born into a cult (the Jehovah’s Witnesses), but I “woke up” and separated myself from it. All of my JW friends started shunning me right away, it was terrifying! Extreme shunning is also practiced in Scientology (called “disconnect”). Hopefully she will eventually also recognize how wrong it is - and leave!!
Wooww what a book! I finished it in one day. Cant wait to start the series
How did you finish it in a day help me I need to read it for school 😭
@@bell4338 SAMEEEEEEE OMG ☠☠im so cooked
@@smellysnail1348 I didn’t end up reading it was so boring 😭
A superb reading of a brilliant and terrifyingly familiar novel. The hopelessness is tangible. I want to take a break and finish later but I feel guilty for doing so.
I first read this from a friend who loaned it to me in college. It has stuck with me since and I have been worried about the cash since
Does Elisabeth Miss narrate any other books? ❤love her voice.
Atwood said that everything in her book had already happened before in history.
Yes, and the religion behind these happenings is not Christianity.
The women who beat women’s feet as punishment are not Christian. Etc etc.
Electronic money? Already happened historically? I am curious about that.
@@catherinehume9193Okay?? Atwood was not making the claim that all gender-based oppression stems from Christianity and other religions are perfect.
yeah it's based on articles that she read in the 80s
@@Suegirdler55 Electronic banking was THE thing in the 1970s and 1980s.
I have the audiobook narrated by Claire Danes. This is better. Thank you, Elizabeth Moss!
Is this actually Elizabeth reading this??? Or is this AI?? I can’t even tell anymore due to AI becoming so advanced in the past year.
After Alabama Supreme Court ruled the fact that frozen embryos are now considered children due to a Bible verse, that brung me back to this. I was 16 when I was introduced to the show and loved it. Always come back to this.
Does it matter? And Alabama is extreme, not usual. Worry if it somehow becomes federal!
It's an actual reading
Brilliantly read but this audiobook doesn't contain the "Historical Notes" featured at the end of the book - make sure you read them.
yes i felt very confused after it ended so abruptly and looked into it and learnt that there was an epilogue of sorts
Thank you for uploading this. I love this book.
As a”totally in” Scientologist, Elizabeth Moss is a perfect fit to read this tale.
I’m surprised, Elizabeth Moss didn’t wake up to the fact, that she’s in a cult herself, after playing her role in the Handmaid’s Tale!!! Hopefully she will eventually.
Thank you for posting this. ❤❤❤
Never heard of this story before all the election talk in America. The algorithm got it in my feed.
Thank you for this!! Still listening 😊
Binged it all, thank you ❤
I see a few comments saying this wouldn't happen or it hasn't happened or it is going to happen when it is happening right now! I think people just are unwilling to see what's really going on right in front of them and I think that is truly sad. Since it isn't happening to you it isn't happening to them right? Blind and ignorant. Ignorance isn't bliss as they say, it is stupidity and naivety.
I love the show and book, and I am most likely in agreement with you. Can you elaborate a bit on how this is happening right now? Where do we see examples like these in society? Banning books, people like Pearl,... But what else??
@@bananafriel As the Taliban take over, women are forced to out of their jobs, not allowed to own land again and drive and have their own bank accounts, forcing underage girls to marry old men and are being persecuted, r*ped and murdered for how they dress and how America has banned the right to abortions including talking about the right to terminate a pregnancy of r*ped victims, with their Politian's being anti-gay and anti-abortion and anti-trans to not even understanding what the consequences of forcing an entire population into their narrow world view will cost them by forcing women to give birth against her will and also not understanding that it is a healthcare violation and that many woman will resort to unsavory means, which means a lot of first responders and the like will be finding dead babies and dead women. The book has taken inspiration from real life historical events such as The Salem witch trials and the Romanian dictator that wanted to increase birth rates with his extreme pro-natalist views. I do not think men in power realize what will happen if this continues, women put up with a lot but this time they have gone to far, there is only so much they can do, of course I try to have a little bit more faith in humanity just because I know a lot of men are also angry about this but not enough to change anything. The handmaids tale is as relevant then as it is now in my opinion.
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The Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade.
The forced births in red states that have the least social safety nets will produce an army of hungry, angry and poorly educated young people. They will be the foot soldiers, doing the bidding of whatever warmonger is in charge in 20 years.
Many people like the idea "from each according to her ability, to each according to his need." And doing things beneficial to the "common good". They also like to ignore the fact that most authoritarians preach these ideas.
@@bananafrielthink about the society they talk about “before”… it kind of aligns with what’s going on now and we are going into a era of censorship and control. They are trying to police speech, we see it on platforms like Facebook, instagram, youtube. They create divisiveness with race, sexual orientation, between men and women, etc. Some examples of what’s going on in society: Sexual “freedom”, abortions are no longer taboo: in fact they are encouraged, marriage to a lot of people is no longer sacred, we live in a society where anything goes: sex sells, criminals aren’t punished, and they are literally sterilizing people with experimental surgeries and drugs, and there is literal biological warfare going on with all these “new illnesses/diseases” to name a few. They are creating chaos to become “saviors” of the people to try to control everyone and everything.
My only savior is Jesus Christ! Hope this helps!
Read listen before more books are banned !!!
History and present put together, and I can't believe how people call this fictional
If Offred was relating the part where Moira escaped, janine would have still been pregnant, wouldn't she have been excused from testifying? Wouldn't the aunts know that making the mother.to.be anxious would also make the unborn baby anxious too?
Great narration.
I'm here 6 days after our election didn't go as planned. As women, we can't go quietly. We are starting a resistance movement and we won't be silenced! 💙
This serie, from the start took me back to mulhas and left revolution in my homeland, Iran. took me to the halis, rooms and huge garden of Ambassadors "s Residance, where i lived for 8 years. Where as the responsible of diplomatic mission,'s wife I had to became a "belfegore, fantome de Louvre". I had to get rid of myself, the woman i was...it is the story of us..
So you helped the system establish! You have blood of other women on your hands.
@blueberry4082 are you talking to me? No, and never. #downwithmulhhasand79
For those who have followed by Banned Book of the Week series, this week’s entry may feel strange. To this point, the books have focused on LGBTQ characters and themes - one of the biggest reasons books are being banned in 2022. Last week’s piece, for example, covered All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson:
They are not lgbt books. They are paedophilic books. Please learn. Ruined Leon, a Black bisexual youtuber, covers the books that are being removed from libraries regularly. He has to cover the pictures or he would be banned by TH-cam and he has to bleep out what he reads from the books or he would be banned by TH-cam for paedophilic content.
Please go and look up what you are thinking about.
It is insulting to us lgbt people that these books are in the library under lgbt content, and it is insulting that lgbt groups are trying to keep the paedophilic books in the library.
We have tried so hard for so many years to show heterosexuals that we are not paedophiles. And then this happens.
Banned ? Or not allowed in class rooms...
This is my second go-round. Moss is excellent! It's a hard read, though.
Since ppl know that this book is based off stuff that’s actually happened, let me tell you another thing, in the beginning around chapter 6 offred talks about doctors being snitched on by informants and how women’s testimony as witness didn’t count, this is a part of the religion i grew up in, in Islam if you say ur raped, 1 man’s testimony can cancel yours out. Even if it happened. Your rapist can just say you’re lying since women’s testimony is only 1/2 of a man’s.
this is NOT true. if you have proof of a rape, ANY testimony of any gender CANNOT cancel you out. research deeper and don't misinterpret Islam.The PROOF is still taken into account. in fact, if they found out a man LIED and accuse a woman of being a rapist , HE would be lashed. this isn't a thing even in US civil laws where the accuser of false rape didn't get that.
Great audiobook!
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I love horror stories.but this is exceptionally frightening 😳
thank you so much!
A very accurate tale of a religion with many of those traditions very much still in practice- Islam.
Yes. I was born into Islam, the fundamentalist religions are very dangerous.
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This book is seriously incredible.
chap 22 4:29:58 chap 23 4:45:18 chap 24 5:03:57 ( personal time stamp )
I liked the show. But as the seasons goes on. The characters get really annoying and irritating, especially with the June Character.
I feel the same, seriously..… but, tbh, picturing myself, and if I had a daughter, that someone stole from me - for no real reason, when she already had a family (and SHOULD have been respected as just that); she wasn’t a baby, she was a kid - I wouldn’t be able to leave her; and in that, take many risks.. in every way I could 💜💜💜
I don’t see it that way at all!!
It just showed how psychologically messed up the victims can become.
We got this, y’all. 💙😮💨
Good audiobook
Rip moira you would've loved chappell roan
6:12 suspended the constitution, SAID it would be temporary.
Sounds familiar. Like when someone said they'd only be a dictator for a day.
That’s why it’s so important to go vote 🗳️ now, so a fascist can’t win!!!!
@madamecurious the crowd who likes forced face coverage, lock downs, curfews , gun registration etc study history, better not win
Censorship, like how Google just censored my response about the crowd who likes lockdowns and curfews ...
Thx !!
Is there another book after this one? It can’t just end like that. What happens after she gets taken away?
Testaments, but honestly in my opinion it’s not as deep as this one.
Oh, thank you. I still want to know what happens though. Is it an audio book like this?
@@lovelylotus9798 I haven’t found any for free.
In the testaments, we focus on aunt Lydia and junes two daughters Hannah and Holly/Nicole, Hannah grows up in gilead and becomes a pearl girl where she brings Nicole to gilead from Canada, she thinks she is recruiting her to gilead, but it’s a mayday plan to rescue them both, at the end of the novel we meet June and she gets to hug her daughters, but she got to raise neither of them, we are to assume that June escaped with Nicole and placed her with another family not so closely involved with mayday for her protection
It ends like that lol. The show continues after the book ending in the middle of season 1. The Testaments takes place I think 10-15 years in the future and June isn't in it at all
Very well done, thank you!
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Thanks
Keep up the great work!
Don't they have tissues or handkerchiefs in gilead?
Re-reading chapter 30, 6:52:03
Was this the end of the book? The exit to van? Or is there more
Yes this is how its end.
The story ends with a university lecture.
Thank youuuuuu
I want to buy this version.
In the lords prayer 'the kingdom, power and glory' was a doxology added by Henry Viii in, I think 1541-2 as he wrote his 'Sìx articles of Faith'!