Oryx and Crake Oryx and Crake

Oryx and Crake

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Publisher Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the internationally acclaimed MaddAddam trilogy is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the futurefrom the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments

Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journeywith the help of the green-eyed Children of Crakethrough the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2003
April 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
392
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Canada
SELLER
Penguin Random House Canada
SIZE
6.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Robb Davis ,

Wonderful read

Loved this book. A little slow at first but then I really got into it about 1/3 through. Good science fiction novel. Scary. With modern-day prophetic possibilities!

Metalkill1000 ,

A different angle.

I had to read this book for my english class summative. Before this book, I was never the type to go out of my way to read a book. I was very lazy to start reading it, but once I had only three days left until it was due, I couldn't help but feel guilty if I were to use spark-notes. The nights were hellish but it was so worth it.
Though slow at times, it was a perfectly good book until I got to the end. Immediately got the sequel. I was so glad that it wasn't another "romance" novel that just covered that part up with an interesting introduction.
My view on many things have changed from this book, and solidified my faith in some of my theories. Reading this was somewhat of a curse though, my career plan was going toward either sciences or arts. Oryx and Crake just lost my hope for being in the sciences. Though interesting, it looks pretty ugly for scientists.

DDM151 ,

An excellent story of a frighteningly possible future

Although I found a few chapters a bit dragging at approximately the one third mark, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. This is the first of Atwood's books I've read and I was not disappointed.

The characters, we're well established and although the central character, Jimmy/Snowman was not the type of person I would generally root for, I felt he was a product of his time and environment. I would have liked a bit more granularity in the history of Oryx. Her tragic childhood was well detailed but her later years, specifically how she was able to overcome the tragedy of her adolescence was entirely absent. I suppose the lack of information does give her a certain mystique.

I do enjoy an open ending, however the ending of this story did feel a touch too abrupt. Up next, The Year of the Flood.

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