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A review by odin45mp
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
4.0
Wow. This was not an easy book to read as fears of the COVID-19 spread mounted. As we have a President* who cares more about his own image than about his constituents. As we see health care held over our heads as a guillotine rather than a human right as part of a larger society.
There were parts of this book that I could have done without. The sexual exploitation was almost entirely unnecessary, the graphic nature of it completely so. The underlying message and experience was key to growing the path of a main character, so I will allow it, but my goodness I did not need a chapter and a half on it!
The rest of the book was exemplary, as Atwood gets inside the head (both heads) of a teenage boy, full of hormones and thoughts and angst, and shows us what it is like to be Jimmy and Snowman in this dystopian future, and his relationship with Crake. I want to read the rest of the series now. Well written, well spoken.
There were parts of this book that I could have done without. The sexual exploitation was almost entirely unnecessary, the graphic nature of it completely so. The underlying message and experience was key to growing the path of a main character, so I will allow it, but my goodness I did not need a chapter and a half on it!
The rest of the book was exemplary, as Atwood gets inside the head (both heads) of a teenage boy, full of hormones and thoughts and angst, and shows us what it is like to be Jimmy and Snowman in this dystopian future, and his relationship with Crake. I want to read the rest of the series now. Well written, well spoken.