Oryx and Crake
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (694 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00009OYYN |
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| Number of Pages | : | 122 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kenny of LA said Just OK. There was the germ of a very good book here, but the execution fell flat. The book meanders and the "action" (as it were) doesn't really start until halfway through the book. Also, all of the main characters are flatly and vaguely drawn, very unsympathetic and lifeless. With very little insight given on these thinly drawn characters, its hard to ever fully understand why they do what they do; thus the reader is on a journey that seems to lead to nowhere. Were it not fo. Chris S. said A Satisfying Dystopian Read. Margaret Atwood is no stranger to dystopian novels (many fans discovered her with the 1985 publication of The Handmaid's Tale, another excellent dystopian imagining) and this one is no disappointment. The world around us has degraded to such a degree that natural disasters are devastating and commonplace, and the rich have sequestered themselves behind the heavily secured walls of corporate compounds. Quality of life is determined by one's ability to become (and remain. Gabrielle Mathieu said A clever package with a nihilistic core. Perhaps, as one reviewer said, dystopian fantasy and literary fiction are not that compatible. The characters, Oryx and Crake, that together transform the world from a dystopia to a post-apocalyptic disaster, remain enigmatic throughout. (We have only Oryx’s word that she wasn’t a part of Crake’s plan.) Our narrator, Jimmy/Snowman, seems too caught up in his own misery and pursuit of unfulfilling pleasure, to display much curiosity about the inscrutab
While the story begins with a rather ponderous set-up of what has become a clichéd landscape of the human endgame, littered with smashed computers and abandoned buildings, it takes on life when Snowman recalls his boyhood meeting with his best friend Crake: "Crake had a thing about him even then. Eventually Crake's experiments in bioengineering cause humanity's shockingly quick demise (with uncanny echoes of SARS, ebola, and mad cow disease), leaving Snowman to try to pick up the pieces. As he scavenges and tends to his insect bites, Snowman recalls in flashbacks how the world fell apart. (Ordinary folks are kept outside the gates in the chaotic "pleeblands.") Meanwhile, beautiful Oryx, raised as a child prostitute in Southeast Asia, finds her way to the West and meets Crake and Jimmy, setting up an inevitable love triangle. In Oryx and Crake, a science fiction novel that is more Swift than Heinlein, more cautionary tale than "fictional science" (no flying cars here),
When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker PrizeMargaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it.This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. This is