re: #230 Anymouse

One of the commentators over at Wonkette is a teacher, and notes that she gave a choice for reading assignments, one of which was “A Handmaid’s Tale.”

A girl in the class chose that book, and shortly thereafter Mom came piling into the classroom to object to that particular book. (Seventh Day Adventist)

The objection to the book was not the oppressive theocratic society, but the single dullest sex scene in all of fiction that is in that book.

Good point. Atwood would never have made a good porn writer. No “roman pillars of manhood”, no “quivering loins”, or “convulsive throes of ecstasy”. Not even a pearl necklace.

Just Nobel-worthy fiction. What was that teacher thinking?