Hi! I read lots of books. I love reading. Do you read a lot? 
I do read a fair amount.  I usually read novels or occasionally novellas, which are shorter novels.
Novellas can be great, particularly when you're busy. What's your favorite book?
I'm not sure completely, but probably something by Stephen King.  Of his 54 published novels, there's probably at least 5 that fit into my favorite books.
His stuff is great. He's really his own genre at this point. I've been reading some of the lesser known Margaret Atwood books lately. Like "The Blind Assassin" 
I don't know anything about Margaret Atwood, other than she won the Arthur C. Clarke Award.  Did she write the Handmaiden's Tale?
Yes, she did. And her other stuff is just as good.
Was the Handmaid's Tale a dystopian novel?  I'm really not sure about the plot of it.
Yes, it's dystopian. The birthrate has fallen, so fertile women are kept by wealthy men as breeding slaves. It's pretty grim, actually.
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detailed chronology of the Xeelee Sequence explaining the proper chronological reading order of all the novels, novellas, and short stories up to that year. The timeline was updated in September 2015.
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