Margaret Atwood is a genius at taking our reality to extremes she really tries to warn humanity of all the lines we blur and cross. It terrified me to read this book and then see an article on farming artificial beef that would be grown pain free and pig lungs being grown with human cells to be used as a transplant organs!

I finished listening to this tale a few months ago. I read a lot of scify, but generally stay on the entertaining side of things. This was my first Margaret Atwood tale and it was excellent. I decided to write this comment because I am still haunted today by it. For those of us that see the world half empty there won't be any surprises. I am haunted by the sick and twistedness of it all. The tale is told in a very straightforward simple manner, but the inner workings of the tale are very complex It is a great science fiction novel as well as a social commentary. Read it.