What was she thinking. Review on Handmaid's Tale, The - Margaret Atwood

When I was a junior in high school a teacher gave us a list of books and she wanted us to read at least one. I chose at the time Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. I remeber at the end of us reading that book that the groups had to do a presentation on the book. I paid attention and thought that Handmaid's Tale would be pretty good. So now i'm a freshman in college and I read the book.

The book is about a woman named Offred. She and her husband try and cross the boarder into Canada. They are stopped and separated. Offred becomes a Handmaid for the Commander and Serena Joy. SHe is used for her overies. Thoughout the book the Commander trys to get her pregnant. She only gets to walk to the town of Gieald once a day with another Handmaiden. She has to have sex with the Commander once a month and try to get her pregnant. She gets pregnant and things change completly for her in the Commanders house.

Atwood tends to hope from one scene to the next in this book. She is not very discriptive.

I didn't like this book. I don't recommend anyone really read it. It was futuristic, but will never happen. I don't like this book because of it doesn't give the background of Offred or any other handmaiden. Every page I was dreading because she would never make her point in the point. She had a reason I guess for writing the story but I would like to know what that would be because this book was one of those I never want to read again.