false 46756 37 Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility. 'In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus. An adman who's a sad man; a jealous lover who's in perpetual mourning; a fantasist who can only remember the past' - Independent 'Gripping and remarkably imagined' - London Review of Books 3143431 book 2003 Oryx and Crake total:11330|5:3588|4:4324|3:2438|2:724|1:256| 11330 44254 15162 1404 2 8 false true Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Oct 01 20:27:22 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 23:15:16 -0700 2008 2 The Handmaid's Tale. Her vision here is of a not-too-distant future in which the US is divided into corporate-owned gated communities where the (biotech) companies' owners and highly-paid skilled workforce live and...more...]]> 3 6 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 28 14:22:55 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 22:35:50 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 4 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Dec 28 08:11:32 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 28 08:58:06 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 3 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 11:41:42 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 14:43:55 -0700 2007
This book was creep-tastically good. Seriously. Reading it disqueted my soul in a way that made me lose my appetite and really hope that this is fiction and not prophecy.

Atwood has a knack for writing dystopian novels that are set in the near-enough future to be...more...]]> 0 4 false false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Aug 14 10:24:34 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 11 12:55:15 -0800 2009 4 4 false false Mon Oct 22 11:07:46 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 11 12:54:52 -0800 2007 Fear of Music.

2. Not a little of Neil Patrick Harris circa Starship Troopers in Crake.

3. He'd been unhappy too, of course. It went without saying, his unhappiness. He'd put a lot of energy into it. (pgs. 71-72)

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bore-x and crake. this is a very all right book. i was just unwowed by it. initially, i liked the pacing of the book, and the way the story was spooling out between the present and past, doling its secrets out in dribs and drabs. but the characters just seemed so flimsy, and i was ult...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 09:58:05 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 05:37:49 -0700 2009
Not since Beloved have I read a book that was so well done but so depressing that I could hardly contin...more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 20:59:56 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 13:19:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false true Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 24 18:41:43 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 14 11:20:47 -0700 2009 The Handmaid's Tale. Oryx and Crake reminds me of this book only in what seems to be its purpo...more...]]> 1 3 false false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 11:15:37 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 18:18:22 -0800 2009 1
There are so many things wrong with this book that it's hard to know where to begin. For starters, the idea of having a couple of different timelines going at once, and shift tenses according--present tense for the present, regular past tenses ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Sep 18 11:12:06 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 11:20:40 -0700 2007 5 2 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Aug 02 19:41:44 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 09:49:29 -0700 2007 4 1 false false Sun Oct 19 19:13:33 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 19 19:22:23 -0700 2008 Oryx and Crake is the story of a dystopic future that feels alarmingly similar to our real-world present - a time when global warming is a worrisome reality, when genetic experimentation is a issue of much debate, and when scientific advancements often reach further than our ability to fully compreh...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 12:51:56 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 13:17:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false true Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 08:35:13 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 03 15:25:54 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 03 23:58:03 -0800 2008 Thu Jun 19 16:45:30 -0700 2008 more...]]>