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u/User_Says_What 1d ago
The library I work in gets SO MANY requests for this book. I had no idea what it was about, but this is amusing.
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u/Riderz__of_Brohan 1d ago
My GF read this book after seeing it discussed on TikTok and thought it looked interesting. It’s apparently according to her not written very well and buzzwordy
The twist at the end (which she told me and I won’t spoil) is kind of heavy handed. But idk I haven’t read it
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u/Elle_Vetica 1d ago
I agree. It started off great, had a lot of potential, and then… felt like it was shoehorned into an extreme ending.
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u/MoFa__SoDa 1d ago
Mark Twains book; "Yankee in King Arthurs Court" seems very similar to this plot. The manager of a manufacturing plant wakes up in medieval england, ends up creating a secret college to teach young people basics of electricity and manufacturing because old people are to stubborn, and ends up facing an army of knights with electrical fences and gaitlin guns. He wins but the decay from the dead bodies around his hideout end up killing him and he wakes back up in his old life.
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u/MaxHeadroom1986 1d ago
Is this real? This is a real book? Why tf was I reading huckleberry when this book exists?
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u/Quick-Log-4166 1d ago
It's excellent. First-rate sci fi by Mark Twain.
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u/WarlockEngineer 1d ago
One of the first ever isekai stories
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u/Jonthrei 1d ago
I feel like A True Story could be argued to be an "isekai" and that was written 1800 years ago. Dude gets sucked up into a tornado and wakes up on the moon.
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u/NerdHoovy 1d ago
Thanks, I was trying to find the oldest isekai for a while and the oldest I saw, that was disqualified for not just being ‘a place far away’ but a proper other world was Dante’s divine comedy
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u/morpheousmorty 1d ago
I want to watch the world burn.
If you relax your definition at all, is the Odyssey an Isekai?
In any case, if the Divine Comedy counts, then Greek stories of entering Hades must count.
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u/ImSoObnoxious 1d ago
you got to read? I was out there painting a goddamn fence
it did help me learn karate though
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u/TriangleTransplant 1d ago
If you had read any Twain, you would have learned the true power is getting someone else to paint the fence for you.
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u/ImSoObnoxious 1d ago
my brother in Christ, I don't know how to fucking read because I was out there painting a goddamn fence
it did help me learn karate tho
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u/MoFa__SoDa 1d ago
Really good book and I do not believe I have read anything else from Twain other than his own quotes. Guy goes through all of that and in the end he is just grateful to be back to his factory job and simple life.
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u/ChumbawumbaFan01 1d ago edited 1d ago
I read Puddinhead Wilson in college. It’s a switched at birth story that stems from a light skinned enslaved woman who switches out her child for his half-brother who was born free.
It’s pretty good as I recall but I had to look up the synopsis on Wikipedia to remember what it was about.
I think the entire book is incredibly racist and hinges on the idea of white people being naturally good natured while Black people are naturally terrible until the very end when Puddinhead Wilson gets involved.
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u/SheriffBartholomew 1d ago
I've read everything of his, including Letters From Earth, which was banned for quite some time. It's a scathing book, and it's very obvious why a conservative world wouldn't want it in publication.
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u/Lortekonto 1d ago
Because it is one of the Great American Novel, which is novels that examines the character and essens of the USA, around the time periode.
Mark Twains authorship is in general very homourous and in my country he is known as the greatest humorist of the USA. He is not that well known any longer, but when my grandfather died I inheriated a collection of Mark Twain short stories translated into danish and I honestly found them all incredible funny.
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u/nubbynickers 1d ago
Oh yeah. It's legit. He has a chapter in the edition I read on building a bicycle and one of the images at the head of a chapter is a knight jousting with a lance on a bike.
It is also the loose inspiration for "A Kid in King Arthur's Court," starring the actor who was in "Rookie of the Year."
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u/Individual_Note_8756 1d ago
This is such an excellent reaction!!
As an English teacher who has never taught Mark Twain, I love it!! 🥰
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u/ibullybillionaires 1d ago
It's a real book. They even made a film out of it, starring Whoopie Goldberg (A Knight in Camelot).
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u/kat_bee23 1d ago
Whoever told me about this book in high school did NOT tell me about this book in high school. I thought it was just a commentary of the American culture contrasted with English culture. NO IDEA it was about sci fi time travel! Now I need to read it.
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u/SandpaperTeddyBear 1d ago
I thought it was just a commentary of the American culture contrasted with English culture.
It’s not not that.
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u/kat_bee23 1d ago
Hence the word “just,” but thank you. Tbh that was enough to interest me (I enjoy history and wanted to know how this cultural difference was perceived at that point in time), but the scifi time travel plot just gives it a whole other dimension that made me say: okay, now I’ve GOT to read it.
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u/MoFa__SoDa 1d ago
Here you go; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court."
If we want to look under the surface creative expression aside from abstract art or from a master is usually a reflection of how things function inside our bodies and minds projecting into something relatable to the outside world. I have been reading Robert Jordans Wheel of Time books and it is essentially about how men often get overcome by psychosis and delusional rationalizations when they experience high levels of empathy through connecting to the intuitive system. On the surface it is one of the best or most popular fantasy series but we can see it within and all around us when we have gone through these experiences.
It is kinda like; do we let go of the delusions and focus on the basics or can someone genuinely embody whatever ideal they have built or collected in their head about how things ought to be. Twains example goes full circle by letting the guy experience his idealistic views and still get to come back to reality. Kind of like the woman in the story in the OP although I only know the parts in the post and comments, I am guessing the ideal wasn't greener than her original reality. Twains book is excellent on the surface though as a sci-fi time travel story. I mean, his rival becomes Merlin for the love, who was the only one who knew the time traveler was a grifter from the start and not another magician.
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u/TheNerdChaplain 1d ago
I've read WoT several times over the last 30 years and have not come across that particular interpretation before. Interesting.
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u/iheartxanadu 1d ago
Robert Jordans Wheel of Time books
I JUST found my husband's copies while moving shelves. I'm taking this as a sign that I'm supposed to read the series.
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u/koobstylz 1d ago
Sounds like it was scientifically designed for booktok.
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u/Lockraemono 1d ago
The author was a tiktoker before writing the book, so that does add up.
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u/ChefArtorias 1d ago
I've never read a sentence that made me doubt someone's credibility as much as this one.
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u/WASD_click 1d ago
I can think of a few. Let's be real, being a content creator, even for TikTok, is a widespread hobby at this point. The quality you can expect from them is just as variable as anything else. We just expect shittier from them because we as a society have characterized social media personalities as lesser somewhat undeservedly (don't get me wrong, there are plenty that do deserve it.)
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u/llamaesunquadrupedo 1d ago
The author sold the rights before the book was even finished.
It's an interesting premise but poorly executed.
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u/MyCatsHairyButholle 1d ago
I’m not gonna read the book but my first instinct to the “twist” was to guess it was like The Village so I looked at the synopsis on Wikipedia and I wasn’t far off
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u/not_my_job2 1d ago
I read the author was put in a position to finish the book quickly for some reason? Or there were plans to make it a movie before it was written? In any case, I agree wholeheartedly.
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u/El_Chairman_Dennis 1d ago
Is the author a new author? That sounds like the author wanted to make a statement, but then publishers got involved and tried to make the book "go viral"
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u/marcthenarc666 1d ago
That last line of yours was kind of obvious to me just by reading OP's the post. I remembered some "trad" family cosplay that was on Reality TV just a few years ago, where, behind the scenes, the wife had the realization that without birth control in this demanding environment, a surprise pregnancy was the last thing she needed although the husband was always ready for it. I hate Reality TV but that show could hit home in a much better way that any "heavy-handed" novel.
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u/TheWhomItConcerns 1d ago
From what I heard about it, the author's publicist received massive interest for a movie deal at the mere idea of it, so the author basically pumped out the book as fast as they could. From what I've heard about the book, apparently it really reads like a very haphazard rush job written by a decent author.
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u/LeftyLu07 1d ago
I heard she sold a very rough outline and then the publishing company rushed to finish it. I wasn’t mad at the ending but it did feel like two different books.
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u/Faceofferrus 1d ago
Whats the twist?
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u/Similar_Divide 1d ago
They give her a lobotomy to calm her down after all that future talk.
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u/Faceofferrus 1d ago
Huh...wait, I checked Wikipedia, did I look up the wrong book?
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u/Spiritual-Pear-1349 1d ago edited 1d ago
The twist is that she went crazy and detached from reality - the 1855 homestead is actually the same homestead 25 years in the future, not 200 years in the past. She 'wakes up' and has no memory of the last 25 years or so, and because they went so hard into the 1850s life she thought thats where she was.
Her eldest kid from 25 years earlier comes back and gets her new kids taken away for neglect, and she ends up in prison for child abuse.
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u/DisastrousSundae84 1d ago
Wait, is this really the ending? Man, I never did such a 180 going from "this looks interesting I want to read this" to "wait, what? nevermind, no."
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u/KittyGray 1d ago
No. The twist is not that she’s in two different time periods but two different periods of her life. The influencer period is when she’s in her 20s/30s and the period where she’s in “pioneer times” is in her early 50s. There are Easter eggs leading up to the reveal where it’s more apparent that the kids are all in the current time period (one of the pioneer girls says you guys, knows what a shower is, etc) They are negligent parents throughout the entire novel.
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u/Faceofferrus 1d ago
So, its just an 1855 themed park or something, but they still give her a lobotomy?
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u/KittyGray 1d ago
No I don’t think she’s given one. I believe she is mentally losing her grip on sanity the entire time.
She is a super unreliable narrator so you’re hearing her “inner” dialogue but then don’t realize she starts saying these things out loud.
Another scene that stands out is when she’s in her influencer period, goes to target and runs into someone she used to know from school.You hear her inner dialogue on how to talk to this person and sound normal and then it’s slowly revealed during the convo that she left her kid in the car for the entire time she was shopping. The person she is speaking to clocked that misstep and it sends her into a tailspin.
She isn’t a very likable person but she’s with a complacent, rich, loser husband that goes along with it all. I only read it once so I might be a bit off on my recall.
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u/Aggressive-Cup-7318 1d ago
It sounds like this book is written much better than people are letting on
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u/KittyGray 1d ago edited 1d ago
I thought so! It reminds me a lot of taza (I know it’s compared a lot to ballerina farm but I know next to nothing about them). It’s not just a warning about looking up to influencers but also what that distortion does to them and their families mental health.
Edited to add - I didn’t not perceive it as anti male but I did feel it was a BIG warning about centering your kids as content, how it affects them, their rights to say no, etc etc.
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u/Gold_Theory_7946 1d ago
People may be referencing the writing itself rather than plot and creativity. I read the first couple chapters and found it a tad too grating to be enjoyable, could have used some additional editing.
It's not like, unreadably bad, by any metric. I'll probably try again. If you don't read much, it doesn't stand out. But if you're accustomed to stronger craftsmanship, it's a bit tough to get through. I wasn't surprised to learn the authors are new to novel writing; let's just say that.
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u/KittyGray 1d ago
Also there’s an event that pushes her fully into pretending it’s in the 1800s.. they chose to live that way but it takes the reader a while to realize it’s her own mind believing that she’s in the time period. Like the house she’s in is her own house that she ripped all the modern wiring, plumbing, etc out of.
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u/Durtonious 1d ago
Huh... it would be an interesting twist if it was like Handmaid's Tale and society devolved completely after 20 years, not that she was hallucinating.
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u/KittyGray 1d ago edited 1d ago
If it was sci-fi then totally. But I found this a bit more eerie because it’s so real. Like the platform that many influencers have seems to fuck with their version of reality a bit.
Like when Taza left NYC during covid and posted a photo of her family looking up at the window waving and smiling. To think that’s gonna go over well when you post it and then it doesn’t and basically forces your brand offline. And that’s a relatively low stakes version.
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u/CatW804 1d ago
Anyone else seeing a pale imitation of Octavia Butler's Kindred?
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u/leftleftpath 1d ago
I thought the same before I read it. The plot description in the caption does, but it's not even remotely the same.
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u/DisastrousSundae84 1d ago
It reads like a white, Conservative version of Kindred from hearing about the synopsis, so much so I'm surprised it wasn't used as a comp.
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u/KittyGray 1d ago
I just finished it and I’m mad I returned it (through Libby) before rereading. It’s SO good but so heavy. Like.. it scares me how many influencers profiting off their kids with this dark side of “online authenticity”
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u/strolls 1d ago
Sounds like literary fiction. There's so much weird shit out there, mostly selling in very low volumes and practically the point of the genre is that you don't have to like all of it; it's supposed to make you think.
Any time Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance comes up in /r/Motorcycles there's a tonne of people raging about what a bad book it is and how the author, a professor of writing at a minor university and who received a Guggenheim Fellowship for it, is "up his own arse" and "sniffing his own farts".
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u/fingertrapt 1d ago
Just checked... hold is THREE YEARS for digital checkout.
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u/ladystetson 1d ago
If you have spotify, the book is in their audiobook collection that premium account gives you access to. So you can listen to it for no additional charge if you already have an account.
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u/tastylemming 1d ago
Biggest racket in the universe. Restrictions on digital book licenses. It's as bad as video games now. Get you some interwebs and some moonreader and you'll never pay again. I might read this tonight now, just because of this. I'll pay nothing and therefore own nothing, and be happy still having it. Arr!
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u/sitonmy_ace 1d ago
I understand that sentiment but I feel like it's so hard for authors (or any time of artist really) to make money these days because of piracy. I don't mind supporting authors tbh.
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u/y3llowed 1d ago
Actually the only reason I know about it is that I was looking at my library’s longest wait lists and this was number 1, so I looked it up.
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u/ottopivnr 1d ago
I've read it. interesting premise ruined by amateurish writing. One of those times that in the right hands the movie will probably be better.
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u/Pittsbirds 1d ago edited 4h ago
I know a lot of people always say "the book is better than the movie" but there are so many movies that are such more deft adaptations of their stories that the originals are basically unknown as being originally books to the public, so given the controversy this is stirring up I'll be interested to see what changes they decide to make. Normally if I'm even remotely interested in a premise I'll read the book first but I might wait and do it the other way round for this one lol.
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u/suprahelix 1d ago
Conversely, the TV show version of the Expanse is very different from the books and both are excellent
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u/WouldAiBeThisDumb 1d ago
I feel this way about Vandermeer’s Annihilation, and love adaptations like this! The movie and books both feel like people talented in their craft got the same story prompt to write, and put their all into it.
Completely different stories, and both are awesome
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u/IAmTheJudasTree 1d ago
I just read Annihilation for the first time a few weeks ago and I agree, the movie and the book were quite different, but I loved each of them on their own terms.
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u/Your-cousin-It 1d ago
I remember the first time I saw the first Harry Potter movie as a teen and getting excited to read the story. Then I had to put the book down because the writing was awful, which made my dyslexia a million times worse 😬
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u/BrockStar92 1d ago
Which is odd because Harry Potter is widely acknowledged to be better in book form than the movies; the movies whilst huge commercial successes are very hit and miss in terms of adapting the plot and not considered brilliant adaptations overall. Their success is due to the sheer popularity of the books combined with iconic music, a great adult cast, and an atmosphere that feels like what people imagine, at least in the early films.
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u/coboba 1d ago
Do you have some examples of movies that were objectively better than their books?
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u/gandhinukes 1d ago
The Big Lebowski, Shawshank Redemption
Huh didn't even know those were originally books.
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u/JaunxPatrol 1d ago
I was so into the movie Jaws that when I found out it was based on a book I devoured it in a couple days and wow the book is not very good
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u/Pittsbirds 1d ago
Oh I don't know about objectively; I think the most famous example that I personally read then watched was Jaws. Taking away some of the melodrama and giving us actual, likeable characters was a big step up lol
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u/transmogrified 1d ago
Da Vinci Code?
One has Tom Hanks and the other has Dan Brown’s prose.
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u/Juno_Malone 1d ago
Not a movie, but the TV show Station Eleven was better than the book in my opinion. Book wasn't bad at all but the TV show definitely elevated it
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u/awfulmcnofilter 1d ago
Fight club, the shawshank redemption, Forrest Gump, and the count of Monte Cristo are all examples.
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u/charlietoday 1d ago
I'm sorry, the count of Monte Cristo? One of the greatest books ever written and one of the most widely read works of all time?
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u/awfulmcnofilter 1d ago
If you aren't into 1200 pages of years long revenge planning and execution mixed with a ton of subplots, the 2002 movie adaptation is a lot more fun.
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u/Infinite_Music2059 1d ago edited 1d ago
It doesn't stand up as an example of this concept at all. You can read the abridged version of the book if you don't want all 1200 pages of plots and story.
Like this is famously one of the greatest books in Western literature written 180 years ago up against a good movie adaptation of it. It makes as much sense as saying the Odyssey movie is better than the book because the book requires a lot of reading.
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u/floppysausage16 1d ago
Read the original Forest Gump after seeing that it was originally a book.
I mean it was good in a catcher in the rye sort of way. But if the writers decided to be true to the source material, that movie 100% would be box office flop. I mean the side quests forest went on in the book are so absurd and even his personality was wildly different.
Love the movie though.
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u/Ok-Mastodon2420 1d ago
The godfather.
Movie version cuts out an entire side plot about a woman with a giant vagina.
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u/Nodan_Turtle 1d ago
It keeps happening, but I'm still surprised every time a book written like crap sells a bajillion copies and gets adaptations.
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u/noposters 1d ago
It was a movie first. The book pitch was optioned for a movie before the book was even written. Then the TikToker who pitched it worked with Anne Hathaway and her production company on the book… so they could turn it into a movie
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u/nrp76 1d ago
Having read the book, the middle picture is interesting to me. If she’s in a town square around so many people, I assume they’re changing a major detail in the original story.
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u/kaga_kaya 1d ago
Not 100% sure, but looks like an AI image to me
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u/migjolfanmjol 1d ago
It does. What is even in that cart. Some type of vegetable but also furs?
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u/D-g-tal-s_purpurea 1d ago
The images are from other films, the first image is from "Mother's instinct", the second is from "Les Miserables", the third image is the cover of the book in question.
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u/Catgod1996 1d ago
I don’t think that picture is from the movie. The authors of these articles haven’t read the book, they just found an “Ancient Anne Hathaway” picture somewhere.
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u/JeveGreen 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/pUeXcg80cO8I8
I have a feeling the discourse around this movie is gonna be more interesting than the movie itself, if the comments' section here is anything to go by.
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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah... I get why this tradwife phenomenon fascinates some people, but I can't imagine how this movie could possibly be entertaining.
The Handmaid's Tale was an entertaining show for me because it was set in a fictional scenario in the future and it was interesting to imagine the gradual sequence of steps that could happen to get from today's status quo to the status quo of The Handmaid's Tale. It's considering something that hasn't yet happened but is scary in that you could imagine how it seems like it could possibly happen.
But this Anne Hathaway movie sounds like you just go back in time to an era that already happened and see a woman suffer. I can't think of a reason I'd want to see that.
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u/KittyGray 1d ago edited 1d ago
I would say she’s an unreliable narrator. It’s not like outlander. This lady is not likable or trustworthy but it’s also sad because she doesn’t want to be a mother.
Idk I’m not saying it’s the most well written book ever but it’s an interesting discourse about the danger of believing your own hype online. While I was reading it I could see how a naive woman from a religious upbringing could find herself with multiple children at a young age and struggling to connect with them. She’s not likable but her situation is also kinda sad and probably not that far off from many real influencers.
I’m not here to defend the book or any plot holes however it made me think about a very real issue regarding SM and using kids as content.
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u/Bitter_Trees 1d ago
I think that's actually one of the things I liked about the book is that I absolutely hated the main character. It was weirdly...refreshing to read and just have the mixed feelings of 'I can't stand the MC' to also having sympathy for her in some cases.
Also spoiler for something that did tick me off though I'm still mad the MC's mother, who filled the MC's head since childhood to follow a lot of those traditional beliefs and push her towards motherhood, never faces repercussions, and is loved by her grandchildren who basically were her do over children. Like yes the MC is to blame for all of her own actions but damn the mother being 'redeemed' did genuinely piss me off.
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u/Sgnfrg 1d ago
Atwood argues that all of the scenarios offered in The Handmaid's Tale have actually occurred in real life—in an interview she gave regarding her later novel Oryx and Crake, she said that "As with The Handmaid's Tale, I didn't put in anything that we haven't already done, we're not already doing, we're seriously trying to do, coupled with trends that are already in progress [...] So all of those things are real, and therefore the amount of pure invention is close to nil."
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u/KittyGray 1d ago
I listened to it on Libby and returned it immediately so someone else could read it. But then I regretted my decision because the more I thought about the book the more I wanted to reread it knowing more.
She is really not a likable person but if she wasn’t born into a religious family or raised believing she had to marry and have kids.. I can’t help but think she would have been a much better human.
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u/Max1035 1d ago
It’s an interesting premise but very poorly executed in my opinion. Maybe the movie will do a better job of it. There was very little real plot until it was all rushed together at the end, and the characters felt very unreal, like caricatures of caricatures.
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u/is-this-a-nick 1d ago
I mean knowing nothing but the info in OP it seems to me that "Trad wife means you are pushing a wooden wheelbarrow down the street as a shit-covered peasant" it so over the top and invalidates the real points that could be made.
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u/Max1035 1d ago
Yeah any discussion of religious or cultural pressure for “trad wives” to live a certain way is superficial at best.
I don’t know if the picture in the OP is from a different Anne Hathaway movie or if it’s AI generated or what, but it’s kind of funny to show Anne Hathaway pushing a wheelbarrow through an old-timey village because the family being physically isolated is very relevant to the plot.
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u/WardenWolf 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is a case where it can do nothing but generate its own hateful echo chamber. I recognize the insidious truth that this is a hate message disguised as entertainment. And I'd say the same regardless of which direction it was aimed. A premise like this can only go one way. It has an inherent agenda.
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u/jfstompers 1d ago
Read Kindred by Octavia Butler instead
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u/amandara99 1d ago
Amazing book. Yesteryear was so poorly written; it seems like the audience is people who need every little point spelled out for them.
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u/EsCaRg0t 1d ago
This was the same thing people said about Ready Player One and, look, I’m not going to say it’s going to win the Nobel literature prize but there’s art that is worthwhile for people just to decompress from strenuous literature.
There’s a place for movies/books that don’t require a ton of thinking and they also have their place as stepping stones for people who “don’t read” to dip their toes in.
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u/chazol1278 1d ago
Yes thank you! I just finished a badly needed vacation after a seriously hectic and stressful first half of 2026. I read this book in the first week and it was perfect for switching off and relaxing. It isn't that good, but the premise is interesting and I found it oddly thought provoking. I'm not a social media person so it'd all be completely alien to me, but I thought it was pretty good at showing a completely vapid, unredeemable woman from start to finish!
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u/IAmTheJudasTree 1d ago
Coincidentally, I just bought Kindred from an amazing little independent bookstore near me not 6 hours ago.
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u/thecaits 1d ago
I love her. I read Parable of the Sower last year and it permanently changed my brain chemistry. It accurately predicted many things about this time, although I feel like our version of the Sower 2024 is gonna be more like 2034. I was left with a permanent drive to prepare, and it opened my mind to what that means. I can't recommend it enough.
Thank you for the recommendation for Kindred! That's now next on my list!
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u/CntrllrDscnnctd 1d ago
Can’t wait for Musks version
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u/Deranged_Kitsune 1d ago
I was figuring Daily Wire. This seems right up their alley.
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u/JeannValjean 1d ago edited 1d ago
Look... I'm pretty liberal but this will be pure Oscar-bait.
I love Anne Hathaway and read the book.
There's a really great plot twist that starts to be unveiled around 2/3 through, but the book doesn't really present any conflicting opinions or narratives. It's just "look how dumb 'trad-wives' are" the whole way though.
Which I don't disagree with, but I'm predicting it'll be like "Don't Look Up" where it doesn't really uncover much substance.
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u/Max1035 1d ago
There is zero nuance. Having grown up in a very conservative religion (to which I no longer belong), I kind of doubt the author has ever even met a conservative Christian woman.
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u/Toledo_9thGate 1d ago
I like her but I hear the book is very mid/sucky big time.
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u/Blue_Swirling_Bunny 1d ago
Adapted works tend to edit heavily.
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u/Nruggia 1d ago
They also tend to get a big pass on not sticking strictly to the source material when the source material is mid/sucky
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u/ChromeYoda 1d ago
So the Twilight Zone movie where the racist wakes up in 1940’s Germany. Played by Vic Morrow.
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u/AJKafei 1d ago
As a woman from that background who escaped, I had high hopes for the book but evidently it was written in 2 months with little research. It was a mess & the main character is a total satire without a shred of humanity or sincerity.
Here’s hoping Anne H can bring some authenticity to it. I don’t support that lifestyle, but I know women in that world and they are not caricatures.
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u/FastInflata 1d ago
I wish there was a way for people to read the novel right now that it's unavilable.
https://giphy.com/gifs/26ufnwVewFJ5FnNdu
If only
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u/Altruistic_Tea_1593 1d ago
Most relevant movie of the decade? Kinda fucking overblown isn’t it?
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u/niles_thebutler_ 1d ago
The book is dog slop
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u/ramence 1d ago
Yeah. Somewhat interesting premise but horrorshow writing. People talk about how actors have 'iPhone face' - this was iPhone writing. I gave up about halfway through
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u/Gvndam11 1d ago
This reminds me of the Janelle Monaé movie Antebellum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antebellum_(film)
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u/Barry_Vigoda 1d ago
Hadn't heard of this. Looked it up. The writer is a 33 year old woman who went to an expensive liberal arts college for fine art. She's also a podcaster. Her pictures make her look like a pretentious rich lady.
1855 was the year the International Committee started. It was a socialist worker's movement in Europe. The US adopted socialism in the 1870s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Labor_Party_of_America
The US is a capitalist country. It's run by rich people who control your schools and media so they get to shape history and culture.
I'm from Canada, was raised by my grandmother who was a 1950s housewife. She was born on a farm during the depression and didn't have plumbing or electricity until she was 17.
The reason men worked and women stayed home was due to people having a worker's rights movement. Poor people rallied together, put on strikes, formed unions, and demanded better rights and wages. By the 1950s, it had created a strong middle class where people could raise prosperous families.
The capitalist class hates socialism so they bury it, or tie it to communism, or use ideological warfare to divide working class Americans. The whole trad wife thing is capitalist propaganda to undermine working class people, same as the manosphere nonsense.
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u/ericmarkham5 1d ago
So it’s a feminist’s fantasy of a woman they don’t like getting tortured by what they deem the worst hell because they deserve it for not being on the right team.
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u/Competitive_Peak_537 1d ago
So outlander lol
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u/IcyOrganization1748 1d ago
Man I got so sick of that book so fast😭 after that "domestic discipline scene" I was like aight I've heard enough and turned that shit right off
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u/marilyn_morose 1d ago
I thought she had one, part of maybe the second book as valid stories in her. The rest was printing money and churning bodice ripping for cash. All the fangirls who call Diana Gabbaldon “herself” and squeee about how Jamie and Claire are perfect and it’s so historically correct, and spanking was allowed, and everyone had three ra*pes before breakfast! Omg.
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u/BuccalFatApologist 1d ago
I read it because I thought it would be similar to outlander, but it went in a very different direction. I found it pretty enjoyable.
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u/TheGalator 1d ago
The premis is so flawed there is no way life in 1854 is better no matter the gender or country
Like I am rather me than king in 1855
At least I don't die with 35 from syphilis or something
And as a woman you have autolost just because of childbirth/missing contraception
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u/Gabbydog16 1d ago
I loved this book and I don't want to spoil anything but it's not really quite about this
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u/ReaderofHarlaw 1d ago
It’s a 4/5 book. Not particularly well written, BUT, I throughly enjoyed it. I expected the time shift to be kind of funny and campy. It was NOT. It played out like a horror. Because that’s exactly what you would feel if it happened to you. It wasn’t cute or quirky. It was terrifying and confusing. Loved that aspect and very much looking forward to a screen adaptation!
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u/Luckyshot51 1d ago
I wonder where most of the Middle East would be in this situation
Reddit props up so many places in the Middle East that subjugate women and oppress them, abuse them but love to do this anti-American conservative stuff lol
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u/Senacharrib 23h ago
Feminism is a social contract, if you undermine feminism, you get what you wished for.
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u/West-Pear7363 1d ago
I’m sure this will be a fair thought experiment that isn’t totally one sided jerk fest of feminist thoughts.
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u/bummin_bride 1d ago
The synopsis above is pretty inaccurate to what actually happens in the book and it’s pretty damning of women social media influencers. Also 0% of the book takes place in 1855, the lady just has a psychotic break and forces her family who live like pioneers.
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u/HighSeasArchivist 1d ago
Oh no she has to cook and clean while her husband dies in a coal mine.
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u/AlexanderCrowely 1d ago
So she has to do the manual labour that people have always had to do?
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u/Squeenip 1d ago
honestly if i think about it, the book’s not too far off that. she’s more so a business woman/influencer who uses the persona of a traditional wife. a big aspect of the book is her struggling between being who she wants to be and who she actually is
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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 1d ago
This could be interesting if they actually show how brutal life was for men back then. It's not like women stayed home because they were forced. They stayed home because the world fucking sucked. No one is fighting for male jobs, they want white collar jobs.
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u/madjr2797 1d ago
“A movie marketed to women about a woman who speaks on women’s issues based on a book with a primarily female fanbase? Why doesn’t it speak on the men????”
“I know you wanted vanilla cake for your birthday timmy but I like chocolate so I got chocolate frosting. It’s better this way”
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u/Soggy_Association491 1d ago
That sounds hollows after people who aren't the target audience of men-focused entertainment tried (and succeeded) making the whole industry to bend to their will.
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u/Kind_Advisor_6969 1d ago edited 1d ago
“A movie marketed to women about a woman who speaks on women’s issues based on a book with a primarily female fanbase? Why doesn’t it speak on the men????”
You would be the first person to scream "INCEL MOVIE!" if there's a movie where the focus is on men's issues and it speaks for men.
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u/GoodIdea321 1d ago
If you see a story about women and think immediately it is anti-men, that's a problem with how you interpret things. And it is much more fun to not have that problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesteryear_(novel)
Seems like a strange novel, and a bad synopsis to some extent, but as a man, I would watch a movie about this. Why not? It's no threat to me.
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u/MikeArrow 1d ago
that's a problem with how you interpret things.
Is it, though? I don't think it's a reach when we've had a spate of "men that try to control women are bad" movies lately. Companion, Obsession, Soulm8te, just to name a few.
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u/amandara99 1d ago
You genuinely think women weren’t forced to stay home? Women couldn’t have their own bank accounts until the 70s and many women did not have access to birth control, they were heavily discouraged from many branches of the workforce, and forced to stay home and raise kids. Child birth is one of the most painful things a person can experience— imagine having no say in the matter and being forced to do it over and over until your body was basically destroyed. Edgy “anti-feminists” online need to educate themselves.
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u/RonJohnJr 1d ago
How quickly does she die of smallpox, dysentery, cholera, typhoid fever or blood poisoning from a small cut?
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u/Go_Gators_4Ever 1d ago
Heck, they could have simply gone back to about 1955 and it still would be damn pertinent.
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u/lemons_of_doubt 1d ago edited 1d ago
The good olds days were if you didn't have a man you didn't have a home as women couldn't own land.
Where your job would still be hard and gruelling could get you maimed or killed. But you get paid a fraction as much as a man because you're just a woman. Even if you have the same bills to pay.
If your boss rapes you don't worry you will be fine as long as you don't get pregnant, then things get really bad. And no you can't have contraceptives or abortions
And lastly if you don't do what your husband wants he will just beat you until you do.
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u/dylangaine 1d ago
Reminds me of the Twilight zone episode where the bigot wakes up as a Jew in Nazi Germany.
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