Iain’s Comments (group member since Sep 06, 2012)

Iain’s comments from the Utopian and Dystopian Reading Group group.

Sonia wrote: "Iain wrote: "I'm reading Oryx and Crake at the moment! Can't believe I've put it off so long! Even better than The Handmaid's Tale. For me the primer was probably Brave New World, read it as a teen..."

Hey Sonia, I know I've put myself up as reading Yellow Blue Tibia and although I was really enjoying that I couldn't wait and started reading YotF last night and already 50% through! It is pretty damn good! Also: check out this edition of Arc, there's an extract from Atwood's current work in progress, looks a lot to me like it's from the last part of the trilogy(!):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arc-1-1-Futur...

Jeniece wrote: "Iain wrote: "I'm reading Oryx and Crake at the moment! Can't believe I've put it off so long! Even better than The Handmaid's Tale. For me the primer was probably Brave New World, read it as a teen..."

I loved both: I just felt there was a lot of elements of the protagonist's (early) life in O&C that I could relate to and felt eerily familiar to me. Also, there was a really long gap between the last Atwood novel I had read and O&C and was really pleased to read a "genre" novel daring enough to employ the theme of systematic child abuse as a metaphor for man's exploitation of the the world's natural resources and handle it so maturely. Really cemented her place as the world's greatest living novelist for me.

I'm reading Oryx and Crake at the moment! Can't believe I've put it off so long! Even better than The Handmaid's Tale. For me the primer was probably Brave New World, read it as a teenager and have been a dystopia geek ever since.