Book Review: The Handmaid's Tale Author: Margaret Atwood “ Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.” To be perfectly honest, it was the tv series that made me pick this book out and I am glad that I had the pleasure of both reading the book and watching the series. Rarely it happens that a book is perfectly adapted into visual platform of story-telling and in this case not only the tv series covers almost everything that happens along in the book but it has something more to offer, something to tie up the loose ends in the book which, I am sure, is going to and has been giving the readers nightmares. “ But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.” Now lets talk about the book. The Republic of Gilead or loosely a major part of United States of America where t...