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. 
Oh jeez.  Were they treated in a brutal or degrading way in the book, or was it a more quiet kind of treatment?
Brutal, and degrading, but under the premise of religion/morality. On second thought, don't read it, it's too close out our reality lately. Thanks for the chat!