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As this book is considered literary sci-fi I was attracted to it but also a little concerned that in the effort to achieve literary status the author might have discarded the essence of sci-fi.
My first impressions were that the style of both the writing and the story-telling were a little old fashioned. It was lighter on the science philosophy and also less chauvanistic than such classics as Heinlein and Dick. In fact the slow, steady pace reminded me of John Windham while the constant word play ...more
My first impressions were that the style of both the writing and the story-telling were a little old fashioned. It was lighter on the science philosophy and also less chauvanistic than such classics as Heinlein and Dick. In fact the slow, steady pace reminded me of John Windham while the constant word play ...more
Apr 07, 2014
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A friend sent me this book, and I had it in my to-read pile for quite some time before picking it up and starting to read it.
Oh! My! Goodness! It grabbed me by the collar and didn't let me go until I read the last page (and the preview of the next book in the trilogy). Some nights I could barely keep my eyes open, but I needed to keep reading.
Some of the science was over my head and I didn't always follow the plot twists, but the writing was such that I just kept going.
I've read other novels a ...more
Oh! My! Goodness! It grabbed me by the collar and didn't let me go until I read the last page (and the preview of the next book in the trilogy). Some nights I could barely keep my eyes open, but I needed to keep reading.
Some of the science was over my head and I didn't always follow the plot twists, but the writing was such that I just kept going.
I've read other novels a ...more
A book which doesn't fit neatly onto any of the shelves I've created! How odd. I added it to "science fiction" after some deliberation, but don't be fooled into thinking this will read like Asimov or Heinlein. Rather, this is a poetic, mysterious dystopian novel, drawing on themes of genetic manipulation and human pride. This is a very different future than the one Atwood imagined in "The Handmaid's Tale," but one that is equally as compelling.
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I love this book. I just finished reading it for the third time and it never disappoints, in fact, it becomes more scarily accurate each time I read it. The dystopia Atwood creates is so familiar, so almost what things are like now, that I can't help but get totally sucked into this story as if reading my own future. And it's just so well-written, so imaginative and wonderful.
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Genetic mad science gone mad (eg rakunks). Unchecked corporate greed. Psychopathy kills humanity. Extensive flashbacks. Gods, do guys really spend that much time thinking about breasts?
ORYX & CRAKE: NOTES
• Jimmy (Snowman) a word person, not a numbers person (25)
• Pigoon: “neither he nor they had a lot of say in what was going on” (24)
• Compound people (27)
• When mother enjoyed herself—felt like she was a real mother, and Jimmy a real child (30)—“he loved her so when he made her unhappy” (33)
• Oryx and her “someone” (38)
• Losing words/meaning (39)
• Crake/Crakers (40)
• Building—so much time and effort, only to crumble, disintegrate (45)
• Feels he has a listener (46)
• Dad (and Ra ...more
• Jimmy (Snowman) a word person, not a numbers person (25)
• Pigoon: “neither he nor they had a lot of say in what was going on” (24)
• Compound people (27)
• When mother enjoyed herself—felt like she was a real mother, and Jimmy a real child (30)—“he loved her so when he made her unhappy” (33)
• Oryx and her “someone” (38)
• Losing words/meaning (39)
• Crake/Crakers (40)
• Building—so much time and effort, only to crumble, disintegrate (45)
• Feels he has a listener (46)
• Dad (and Ra ...more
The point is that the world is in trouble, right? But then there’s the sweet tender way that Snowman takes care of the Crakers.
Jun 29, 2007
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