NP: Naomi Alderman's The Power

[rich]

it is about empowerment for sure, but as the story develops it becomes
strictly about power itself, which at times becomes quite ugly.
I think Ms Alderman was shooting for something deeper than revenge fantasy
and I believe she succeeded.

rich

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 7:37 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> The huge bestselling success of this book--my hidden premise being a
> book's sale is rarely just related to its quality; in fact is seldom
> related to it, --
> Is part of the huge cultural ongoing next wave of female empowerment and
> self-empowerment.
>
>  It's all around us, maybe most visible in the largest total marches
> around the US--some outside the US too--in the history of The Republic.
>
> And the voices to try to end, and bring to justice the power dominance
> that is most sexual harassment , is thrilling.
>
> Yes, more women should read Pynchon, (and join the Plist), a feminist and
> profound understander of every kind of dominance.
>
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Jan 24, 2018, at 7:27 PM, Richard Romeo <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I enjoyed it though it’s a hard read at times (as a guy) which I guess
> is the point.
> > I like the way she structured the story
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Jan 24, 2018, at 6:17 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm a third of the way into this glorious page-turner called The Power
> >> and was pleased to note that writer Naomi Alderman conversed with
> >> Ursula Le Guin while developing it (Margaret Atwood and Karen Joy
> >> Fowler, too).
> >> It begins with 15-year-old girls the world over discovering they have
> >> this ability to cause terrible pain and even death, and they quickly
> >> start teaching older women the power as well. In very short order the
> >> power dynamics of sex and gender are completely upended and the book
> >> very smartly teases out the implications. The section in which women
> >> storm the streets of Riyadh kept me reading late into the evevning
> >> last night and the book overall is that wonderful mix of genre
> >> satisfaction and fine intellectual playfulness.
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