This book was incredibly boring. I feel horrible for disliking this book as its supposed to be a classic. But you always gotta take those types with a grain of salt. 
 Perhaps if I'd known it was written in stream of consciousness I would have lowered my expectations. I can't type much on a kindle but here goes. 
 This dystopia is poorly written. Just as books nowadays get their worlds critically ripped apart or discredited, so too should this book whose world building qualities are lackluster. Vague dystopian origin, unclear reason for the removal of women's basic rights, and no clear reason or explanation for the apparent infertility of some women. Add to that the fact that the protagonist Offred is in a world of religious fanatics who only read from five pages from the Bible and now the book becomes some kind of critique of Christians as well. 
 So the book gives you this promise: Women need to make babies, and be subservient housemaids. Young men can only sometimes procreate, but mostly it's just old people here, male and female alike. Why? Where's the teenagers? The fertile ones? This society is not based on logic or any true religion, but a vague idea of Christian extremists who've never read a Bible. 
 None of this is well thought out, not by the author, and it's certainly not presented clearly by the protagonist, and her word is they only word we have, making her incredibly unreliable. She's like a limp noodle in the book. She's vague, mopey, and non heroic. This totally hampered the feminist tones of the book. She's tells us so much and yet I never got a feel for her world or her real personality, not get real name. l was just not feeling this story, especially the extremely disjointed parts where she frequently backtracked and explains flashbacks. Inaccurately, I might add. 
 Just a mess. There's no way in the world I could believe such a world as described here could happen. Not in the way presented.