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Oryx and Crake(MaddAddamTrilogy, #1)
by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
Uh, this is getting a bit squicky.
I'm having a hard time putting this book down. It's been a while since that has happened. I really must stop reading it and work but it's so good.
I don't know how to feel about this book. I finished reading it so I'm re-reading it in between other books but the idea of a post-Apocalyptic world is so upsetting to me to put it mildly. All I can do is go, scientists, please do not destroy the world or give everyone some kind of disease because I really love the world the way it is for the most part, so make it better and not worse!
I kind of like the Crakers, but I can always identify with aliens and mutants more than normal people. They seem so innocent. They haven't a clue that their "god" is a psycho of the highest degree.
I'm having a hard time putting this book down. It's been a while since that has happened. I really must stop reading it and work but it's so good.
I don't know how to feel about this book. I finished reading it so I'm re-reading it in between other books but the idea of a post-Apocalyptic world is so upsetting to me to put it mildly. All I can do is go, scientists, please do not destroy the world or give everyone some kind of disease because I really love the world the way it is for the most part, so make it better and not worse!
I kind of like the Crakers, but I can always identify with aliens and mutants more than normal people. They seem so innocent. They haven't a clue that their "god" is a psycho of the highest degree.
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I've had this on my "to read" list for a few months now and haven't been able to decide if I'm in the mood for this kind of thing or not. I have to admit, though, when I'm in the right mood I do enjoy the emotional roller coaster of the post-apocalypse story.
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Am reading this right now. At that part where they are mucking through their pot-smoking teen years, absorbing the most depraved acts of humans. Getting tough. Do I hang on?
I know Atwood has a bigger message here, but it's the nightmare kind. Thanks, I really need to push through for my book club :-)
The Year of the Flood has far more about god(s), set in the same post-apocalyptic world, but told in a very different way.
Cecily wrote: "And then this summer, the third of the trilogy is due out: MaddAddam"That is very good news. The first two books were both upsetting, though strangely satisfying. I read some place (probably on GR) that Atwood doesn't consider them as science-fiction.
She generally prefers the term "speculative fiction", I believe, which is fair enough. There is little science in the books of hers that might otherwise be classed as sci-fi.
Gary wrote: "Cecily wrote: "And then this summer, the third of the trilogy is due out: MaddAddam"That is very good news. The first two books were both upsetting, though strangely satisfying. I read some place..."
I can understand why Atwood doesn't feel they belong in the Sci-Fi category because I believe her view and message is that this is where/what we are devolving into.
