This companion novel to Oryx and Crake is either a lot less startling than the previous one, or I'm just getting used to the degradation of culture and ethics depicted in her expertly built world. She really tries, and I believe she succeeds, in creating a very believable and detailed dystopia that...
First read from February 13 to 20, 2011. Second read from July 8 to August 4, 2013.Ready for [b:MaddAddam|17262203|MaddAddam (MaddAddam Trilogy #3)|Margaret Atwood|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1366394020s/17262203.jpg|17613051]!
So..I'm still not so convinced there is a story here. See my review of Oryx and Crake for starters, but essentially in The Year of the Flood we get 97% (my kindle version did not have page numbers so I can't give that) back story. AGAIN! And then the current action starts where O&C ended with 3% le...
Margaret 'I don't write Sci-Fi' Atwood has written a solid, creative, dynamic, and personal work of science speculative fiction examining a post-apocalyptic "world in twenty years" that is at once humanistic and plausible, if a little skippy in some of the science. in a world where hardened criminal...
I don't know why I do this to myself. I have a love-hate relationship with her books. I forget that and read another of her books and then get annoyed with myself for doing so!I still don't understand why this was a Waterless Flood. I have no issue with the waterless, I get that. but why is it a flo...
"Glenn (Crake) used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be dead," you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul--it was a consequence of grammar. A...
I'm a bit uneasy about this one. Yes I read it over a couple of days. But after book one, it isn't likely to have the same impact and doesn't. It's more of the same, please picture impassioned words here about how important it might be to read. I did all that for the first one, maybe I just say 'dit...
The Year of the Flood begins after the plague from Oryx and Crake has killed off most of humanity. Two seemingly-different women have somehow survived; one, Toby, has barricaded herself inside a luxurious spa while exotic dancer Ren was fortunate to have been in quarantine at the time. Both women, h...
This story is parallel to "Oryx and Crake" (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23324423), and has several characters in common, though the writing style and overall format is quite different. Having read both, I can't decide whether it is better to read them in publication order (O&C first) or not...
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