Oryx and Crake
Registered by pritzkit of Media, Pennsylvania USA on 5/31/2004
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
2 journalers for this copy...
I loved Handmaid's Tale but since then haven't connected with Atwood.
Mailed to bookcrosser PokPok on 6/19/04. Enjoy and I hope you will re-release.
Thank you for passing this on to me. I also loved Handmaid's Tale, and this will be the first of her other books that I've tried. It may be on my TBR for a little while, but I'll either pass on to my local BC friends, or do a bookring, when finished.
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Wow... I have indeed had this book for a long time... TBR being what it is. I just bopped on to say I'm starting it now. 20 pages in, and I can tell it will be amazing, just like Handmaid's Tale.
8 stars: Very Good
I would have rated this book 7 stars (good) but I bumped it up to 8 based on the strength of Atwood's writing. She is the closest author I've read, to Ray Bradbury, as far as style and beauty. It's literally a joy to read her work.
Some quotes that stood out for me (once I started marking them; there were many before this.
"Axiom: that illness isn't productive. In itself it generates no commodities and therefore no money. Although it's an excuse for a lot of activity, all it really does well moneywise is cause wealth to move from the sick to the well. From patients to doctors from clients to cure-peddlers. Money osmosis, you might call it."
"What pays for all this?" [rampant luxuries] "Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition."
"War, which is to say, misplaced sexual energy, which we consider to be a larger factor that the economic, racial, and religious causes often cited. "
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The title is a bit of a misnomer. Oryx is hardly in the story, and I found her backstory to be very ill defined and I didn't care anything about her. The only thing that was important was that Jimmy/Snowman was infatuated with her, causing him to do his final act. Mr Pok and I had differing opinions on whether Crake planned to be around at the end; I thought not, but he thought that Crake would have intended to be there at least awhile longer (trying not to give away spoilers here).
I found Crake to be the most interesting character, by design, but his rationale and motivation for doing such a heinous act, was not delved in to at all. I found that to be bothersome and that it took away from the story. We ultimately find out what happened to earth to cause this dystopia, but not why.
The ending is like Handmaid's Tale, in that it is open to the reader whether it ends positively or negatively; the story ends with Snowman encountering another group of humans. They may kill him or help him, you decide the ending.
A good book, although I likely wouldn't reread. Mr Pok was interested enough to want the sequel, Year of the Flood. I am ambivalent.
I would have rated this book 7 stars (good) but I bumped it up to 8 based on the strength of Atwood's writing. She is the closest author I've read, to Ray Bradbury, as far as style and beauty. It's literally a joy to read her work.
Some quotes that stood out for me (once I started marking them; there were many before this.
"Axiom: that illness isn't productive. In itself it generates no commodities and therefore no money. Although it's an excuse for a lot of activity, all it really does well moneywise is cause wealth to move from the sick to the well. From patients to doctors from clients to cure-peddlers. Money osmosis, you might call it."
"What pays for all this?" [rampant luxuries] "Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition."
"War, which is to say, misplaced sexual energy, which we consider to be a larger factor that the economic, racial, and religious causes often cited. "
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The title is a bit of a misnomer. Oryx is hardly in the story, and I found her backstory to be very ill defined and I didn't care anything about her. The only thing that was important was that Jimmy/Snowman was infatuated with her, causing him to do his final act. Mr Pok and I had differing opinions on whether Crake planned to be around at the end; I thought not, but he thought that Crake would have intended to be there at least awhile longer (trying not to give away spoilers here).
I found Crake to be the most interesting character, by design, but his rationale and motivation for doing such a heinous act, was not delved in to at all. I found that to be bothersome and that it took away from the story. We ultimately find out what happened to earth to cause this dystopia, but not why.
The ending is like Handmaid's Tale, in that it is open to the reader whether it ends positively or negatively; the story ends with Snowman encountering another group of humans. They may kill him or help him, you decide the ending.
A good book, although I likely wouldn't reread. Mr Pok was interested enough to want the sequel, Year of the Flood. I am ambivalent.
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Sent to my friend J DeL in Lyons, CO.
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Sent to my friend J DeL in Lyons, CO.
