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Novels that give us the details of a post-apocalypse normally don't give us great details leading up to the mass of destruction, but when they do, I tend to applaud. Loudly.
This novel happens to be one that does. The characters are very memorable and beautifully fleshed out. The reason for the destruction? Ah, an unabashed and gut-wrenching view of institutional pedophilia.
It really helps to put the reader on the side of Crake.
The devil is in the details.
Very disturbing, ultimately satisfying. ...more
This novel happens to be one that does. The characters are very memorable and beautifully fleshed out. The reason for the destruction? Ah, an unabashed and gut-wrenching view of institutional pedophilia.
It really helps to put the reader on the side of Crake.
The devil is in the details.
Very disturbing, ultimately satisfying. ...more
I first read this a few years ago and, for no apparent reason, never continued with the trilogy.
Also, bizarrely, I only awarded it four stars out or five. On a second listen, this is a genuinely great book, Profound, humane, prophetic, funny - in short, everything you'd expect from Margaret Atwood.
The story, told by perhaps the only "human" survivor of a plague, in a world filled with genetically created hybrids (including the "Crakers" - a simple tribe of bioengineered humanoids over whom he wa ...more
Also, bizarrely, I only awarded it four stars out or five. On a second listen, this is a genuinely great book, Profound, humane, prophetic, funny - in short, everything you'd expect from Margaret Atwood.
The story, told by perhaps the only "human" survivor of a plague, in a world filled with genetically created hybrids (including the "Crakers" - a simple tribe of bioengineered humanoids over whom he wa ...more
My actual feeling on this book was more like a 2 or maybe 2.5, but I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt with a 3. I think if I hadn't read the companion novel The Year of the Flood first I would have liked this better for several reasons:
1. I already knew the broad plot points and there was no mystery or joy of discovery, the big questions in the novel had already been answered for me (Who and what are the Crakers? What happened to the world? What is Madd Adam? etc).
2. Jimmy was a muc ...more
1. I already knew the broad plot points and there was no mystery or joy of discovery, the big questions in the novel had already been answered for me (Who and what are the Crakers? What happened to the world? What is Madd Adam? etc).
2. Jimmy was a muc ...more
Lacks character development, thin story and plot. I can deal with one or even two of those deficits in a book, but not all three. I thought the same of Handmaid too but I thought I'd give her another try, sadly no change.
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Even though I greatly appreciated Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale, I never read anything else by this author, and I needed a friend’s enthusiastic comments about this book to finally try her other works: I must recognize that Atwood does dystopian landscapes quite well, and even though I needed to take a break, now and then, from the bleak scenario she paints here, this story is indeed a compelling one.
Full Review at SPACE AND SORCERY Blog ...more
Full Review at SPACE AND SORCERY Blog ...more
quite a disturbing read
May 19, 2011
Michele
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