I don't know if I am just missing something here, but I struggle to see why this book is so highly regarded. It's interesting and the world Atwood creates is certainly thought-provoking, but to me the book just seemed like a bit of a relic of 1980s feminism. I found it quite boring for the most part and didn't really believe in the story until I had nearly finished it. I found it very hard to believe that a Western society would go through the dramatic shift portrayed in the book in literally only a couple of years. Particularly, I thought there was just too much order and subservience for the time frame.