What book would you recommend for me to read?

[Anonymous]

Please don't suggest books about schizophrenia or paranoia... I hate those subjects.

[abc3643]

The award-winning "The Power" by Naomi Alderman.
It will change your life.
It was being filmed as a 10-part Amazon TV series and just completed filming.

I wrote a question about this book in 2017:
"The Power" by Naomi Alderman. Will you read it? Have you read it? What do you think of it if you have? ↗

On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving 2017, I discovered the book reading the NY Times. I immediately bought it on Black Friday WALKING through frigid weather to the bookstore to buy it. I did not regret it. The book has haunted me ever since and I have bought it in hardcover 7 times and trade paperback once so far.

One of President Obama's favorite reads of 2017
One of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of 2017
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
An Amazon Best Book of 2017
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017
One of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2017
An NPR Best Book of 2017
One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2017
A Bustle Best Book of 2017
A Paste Magazine Best Novel of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2017
Winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
"The Power is our era's The Handmaid's Tale." --Ron Charles, Washington Post

From the publisher's description:
www.littlebrown.com/.../

What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power?

In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets.

From award-winning author Naomi Alderman, THE POWER is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality, and exposing our own world in bold and surprising ways.

scroll.in/.../a-world-where-women-are-the-dominant-sex-this-timely-novel-imagines-it-5000-years-from-now
A world where women are the dominant sex? This timely novel imagines it, 5,000 years from now
In a women-ruled country, the men struggle for power in to a literal battle of the sexes

The time: 5,000 years from now. A writer sends his manuscript to his mentor, asking for her opinion. In his new work, he presents what he calls “a sort of ‘novelisation’ of what archaeologists agree is the most plausible narrative” of how the contemporary world order came to be.

This “novelisation” is the meat of Naomi Alderman’s novel, The Power. Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, it is a masterpiece of speculative fiction that explores a world in which women are the dominant sex, blessed with a superhuman ability to generate a sort of electrical current that places them, for perhaps the first time in history, on a physical level unmatched, never mind surpassed, by men.

On “the day of the girls”, the world changes. Young women across the world suddenly find themselves no longer at the mercy of men. Reports filter in of teenage girls being able to generate an electrical current, much like eels, that they can turn against those who seek to harm them.

At first, few people believe these disparate stories, which connect places as far apart as India, Nigeria, the UK and the US. It’s only when Tunde, an intrepid, fledgling reporter from Lagos, puts up a video of a young woman repelling a harasser with an electric shock the international community acknowledges the development.

The Power tells the story of how the world changed, tracing events to the dawn of the “Cataclysm Age”.

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Other reviews...

www.theatlantic.com/.../
What If Women Had The Power?
A stunning new speculative-fiction book by Naomi Alderman couldn’t be more timely.

www.vogue.com/article/the-power-naomi-alderman
What If Women Were in Charge?

www.nytimes.com/.../naomi-alderman-power.html
A Novelist Asks, What if Women’s Bodies Became Deadly Weapons?

www.barnesandnoble.com/.../
Society Undergoes a Shocking Change in The Power

www.denofgeek.com/.../if-you-love-the-handmaids-tale-you-must-read-the-power
If You Love The Handmaid's Tale, You Must Read The Power


By the way, Amazon TV will ultimately have a 10-part series based on the book:
www.theverge.com/.../amazon-the-power-naomi-alterman-greenlit-tv-series

If you do want to read the book, get it in print. You can get the ebook too, but it is better to have the print book because one of the pictures in the book - a picture that contained important arrows - did not transcribe into the ebook properly because the arrows are referenced but not there.
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The reason this book changed my life so much is that it gave me a perspective on the way that women view the world that I never imagined and instinctively would not have imagined. It shocked me. And this book taught me the fear that women have of us because we are more powerful than them. In this book, men become the weaker ones - sure, we still have stronger muscles and bigger size, but women become lethal in a way that men are not... and, as I read this and realized the abuse that the women could dish out, I found myself in fear as well as I imagined living in the world of that book.

[abc3643]

http://americareads.blogspot.com/

The Power, by Naomi Alderman

Often compared to The Hunger Games and The Handmaid’s Tale, The Power is speculative fiction at its best. It poses a simple question – what if men were no longer the dominant force in society and women were? What would happen if women could make men afraid instead of the other way around? In Alderman’s story, once girls reach their mid teens, they develop a strip of muscle in their collarbone which creates jolts of electricity which they can shoot from their fingertips. Whether it’s science or nature that has created this kink, we are unsure. Regardless, it gives them the power to maim or murder at will. And almost overnight, the world changes beyond recognition. It’s a fascinating, brilliantly executed story.
-Marshal Zeringue

[ohsheeT]

What are you in to

[Asker]

Do you know any good books about serial killers?

[ohsheeT]

Not not really I'm more of a lover type person and would rather read like. Books on tantric or some thing like that

[Asker]

Yeah a lover... a ship crashes on and iceberg and they drown

[ohsheeT]

Haha so what does that mean

[Asker]

You like seeing people drown 😐

[ohsheeT]

No happy people are the best

[ohsheeT]

Lol oh drown no I wouldn't watch that I would have to do what ever it takes to pull them out of the water. .. how about you

[ohsheeT]

Oh OK wait I think we are both reading wrong tonight. ( tantric) it way different than the ship that hits the ice berg.

[Asker]

Lmao I thought that said titanic 🤣

[Asker]

What's tantric?

[ohsheeT]

Yeah I was going to ask you about that and I said no no she doesn't mean that tantric is something very beautiful it means something woven together as one to become one with somebody it's very spiritual type of love making It dates back by a thousand years ago it's very beautiful thing you should read up on it

[Asker]

Ew wtf

[ohsheeT]

It's a good book but in order to understand you have to understand a lot of things

[Asker]

You're creepy