Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Nov 22, 2010 Lydia Presley rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, 2010, dark-fiction, 2013, fiction, dystopian

In The Robber Bride, I experienced Margaret Atwood's brilliant character-writing. In The Handmaid's Tale, I learned just how chilling a dystopian, apocalyptic book can be. With Oryx and Crake I saw both of those aspects of Atwood's writing combined in the forms of Snowman(Jimmy), Oryx, and Crake.

As with all books of this type, it takes a little adjusting and getting used to - the world is foreign, and its unfamiliarity can make for some rough reading, but Atwood does a beautiful job of introduci ...more

2 likes · Like · see review

Jul 19, 2012 martha rated it really liked it

Shelves: year-2005, apocalypses-dystopi

[2005 review.] This book is amazing. Scary and sad and wonderful all at once. Full of all these gorgeous ideas about language and its connection to civilization. But so very unsettling and lonely too; I keep thinking about it, weeks later. Someone once said this is as if William Gibson wrote a Margaret Atwood novel, and I think that's very accurate.

2012 note: I wish I could tell my past self how much more she'll love Year of the Flood! ...more

1 like · Like · see review

Feb 19, 2018 Dina rated it really liked it

Enjoyed this one a lot more than Alias Grace but not as much as The Handmaid’s Tale. Hope the rest of the trilogy is good.

1 like · Like · see review

Jun 30, 2010 Danielle rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2010

I read the Year of the Flood first, actually, which strikes me as a stronger novel, but that doesn't take away from the fact that Oryx and Crake takes you into the mindset of life as the 'last man' in a post-apocalyptic environment of horrors we can unfortunately imagine/foresee. Very eerie. ...more

Like · see review