It's so annoying to me that a novel that is not even memorable is being touted as this amazing novel--in the same vein as 1984 or Fahrenheit 451. Trust me, it's not. It's not even an interesting read. I'm speaking as somebody who read it many years ago--long before the Great Awakening--because I have an interest in dystopian fiction. The Handmaid's Tale is pedantic and boring. These people would have been better served by reading the formerly mentioned truly stellar dystopian novels or another one I found amazing: Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. Of course, they wouldn't like this last one since it's a pretty scathing indictment of communism written by somebody who barely escaped it with his life. But let's elevate Margaret Atwood instead. I'll pass. I still hold in esteem great writers, like Mark Twain and William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor and Charles Dickens and Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte. What the education system has done to literature and to our children is almost unforgivable. But we will take both back. We will Make America Literate Again. And in the process we will Make Americans Intelligent Again.