MaddAddam: A Novel
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780804121095 (0804121095)
Publish date: September 3rd 2013
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English
For me the MaddAddam trilogy doesn't feel like a real trilogy in a sense that each novel continues the story of the previous one. The second book, The Year of The Flood, doesn't pick up where first book Oryx and Crake left off but instead tells the same story during the same timeline, only from the ...
No action. No drama. No tension. No likable characters. The story is not going anywhere or letting us in to any secret at all. What is the point? I really don't see the point. The imaginary of the story is fine. And the dumbing down for the new humanoids storytelling is cute in the fir...
This review (though not this rating) is for the trilogy as a whole.I liked the first book best, and the third one least. A lot of this was because the third book was written from the point of view of the character I connected with the least: Toby. Compared to Jimmy/Snowman in the first book, and Ren...
I really do not understand why "MaddAddam" was written. This does not mean I did not like the book, but I have to wonder why this book was written. I can only conclude Ms Atwood likes the characters and needed some closure. The events in "MaddAddam" take place after the end of "Oryx & Crate" and "...
"But hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. Once you've had a little, you start shaking if you don't get more." When Oryx & Crake was first published, I could not put it down. It was my first Atwood, none of my friends knew about her (I was still at uni at the time) and pe...
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