Hello Rob Scott,

Atwood's works failed to make The Guardian's list of the 100 greatest novels of all time, and Atwood failed to make the list of the top best-sellers by a long shot. The numbers for Agatha Christie and  JK Rowling are in the billions. The book failed to win a Booker Prize and failed to win a Nebula Award.

You are a fan of her book, and yes, her book has many fans, including many professors in academia, and yes, you can declare her book a "seminal work" as can other people who adore her book. You can even call her the female version of Shakespeare, if you like.

But your saying all of those things actually does not provide a compelling argument for why the Handmaid's Tale deserves to be a major front page news story a dozen times over the past few weeks....