The Handmaid's Tale

I stumbled upon this book without even knowing how old it was or what genre it belonged to. It had me hooked from Page 1 due to the awesome imagination that the words invoked it me. I could visualize this world where women are not individuals anymore but just baby producing machines. These handmaids are not even allowed to read. The fact that other childless women were complicit in this scared the hell out of me. The story here also furthers the thought that under a theocratic regime, it's always the women whose rights are taken away first. The way religious fanaticism is spreading across the world today, who knows what the future will bring.