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A review by livschuett
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
4.0
i mean.... i’m scared. this book had a really good build-up to its haunting climax, leaving hints for me to gather and try to guess at what happened to leave the world in such an irreparable state.
“He remembered himself as carefree, earlier, in his youth. Carefree, thick-skinned, skipping light-footed over the surfaces, whistling in the dark, able to get through anything. Turning a blind eye. Now he found himself wincing away. The smallest setbacks were major — a lost sock, a jammed electric toothbrush. Even the sunrise was blinding. He was being rubbed all over with sandpaper. ‘Get a grip,’ he told himself. ‘Get a handle on it. Put it behind you. Move forward. Make a new you.’”
“He remembered himself as carefree, earlier, in his youth. Carefree, thick-skinned, skipping light-footed over the surfaces, whistling in the dark, able to get through anything. Turning a blind eye. Now he found himself wincing away. The smallest setbacks were major — a lost sock, a jammed electric toothbrush. Even the sunrise was blinding. He was being rubbed all over with sandpaper. ‘Get a grip,’ he told himself. ‘Get a handle on it. Put it behind you. Move forward. Make a new you.’”