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Having a hard time knowing how to take this book.This is the second book of the MaddAddam trilogy (and I just noticed that is a palindrome), of which Oryx & Crake was the first.And really, it feels more like an addendum to O&C than a novel proper. As it is Atwood, it is a very well written addendum,...
I am really glad that I read these in order, but it's not a sequel. I've heard it referred to as a "sidequel" instead. Where Oryx & Crake ended, the plot only advances a tiny bit at the end of this one. The events are concurrent, and offer a different perspective on the waterless flood/plague. Atwoo...
blurb - By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.Am so very pleased that this has come to me via audiobook as I get all the music, and the reader, Bernadette Dunne, does a brilliant job. The story? The mid...
I'm still confused...
At first I had a little trouble getting into the story. I guess its cause I haven't read Oryx and Crake yet. But after I got to the middle of the book, I was drawn into the story. It helped that I skipped over the Garderners prayer and feasts. I know I shouldn't have but I couldn't get into those p...
A bleak view of the future, but unfortunately entirely believable. Slow to start, but really builds in pace and intensity.
A dystopian "sidequel" to Oryx and Crake; that is, it recounts others' lives and actions that are parallel to (or intersect with) those of Snowman and Crake. While not as lyrical as the first book, it's still engaging, with vivid descriptions and lively characters. It takes the reader to the point a...
I'm a big fan of Margaret Atwood and the dystopias she creates. When I picked up The Year of the Flood, I didn't realize at first that it was a sequel to one of my favorite books (not only by Atwood, but in general), Oryx and Crake. Now, you can read TYOTF on it's own, it does stand alone, though ...
Not as mind-blowingly awesome as the first book, but are sequels ever better than the original?
“You can’t live with such fears and keep on whistling. The waiting builds up in you like a tide. You start wanting it to be done with. You find yourself saying to the sky, Just do it. Do your worst. Get it over with. She could feel the coming tremor of it running through her spine, asleep or awake…....
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