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Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
My Review:
This is the first book in the Maddaddam trilogy. I reread it (and plan on rereading The Year of the Flood) to refresh my memory before reading the third installment, Maddaddam. As the title states, the story centers around Oryx and Crake, but is told by Jimmy / Snowman. Atwood overlaps details of her imagination with the cutting edge of science. It is just as believable to read about pigoons and Chicky Nobs as to read about skin grafts and genetic manipulations. Oryx and Crake spans topics such as online gaming, computer hacking, food politics, medicine,sex trafficking, plagues and the ultimate example of post colonialism. Every example provided is a tongue in cheek nod to current events but just outlandish enough to expose the absurdity of the situation. As the blurb from the New Yorker states on the back of the book, Oryx and Crake is "towering and intrepid...Atwood does Orwell one better." I could dissect this book line by line and never get tired of talking about it.
Read my full review here: http://www.ivoryowlreviews.blogspot.com/2013/09/oryx-and-crake.html
This is the first book in the Maddaddam trilogy. I reread it (and plan on rereading The Year of the Flood) to refresh my memory before reading the third installment, Maddaddam. As the title states, the story centers around Oryx and Crake, but is told by Jimmy / Snowman. Atwood overlaps details of her imagination with the cutting edge of science. It is just as believable to read about pigoons and Chicky Nobs as to read about skin grafts and genetic manipulations. Oryx and Crake spans topics such as online gaming, computer hacking, food politics, medicine,sex trafficking, plagues and the ultimate example of post colonialism. Every example provided is a tongue in cheek nod to current events but just outlandish enough to expose the absurdity of the situation. As the blurb from the New Yorker states on the back of the book, Oryx and Crake is "towering and intrepid...Atwood does Orwell one better." I could dissect this book line by line and never get tired of talking about it.
Read my full review here: http://www.ivoryowlreviews.blogspot.com/2013/09/oryx-and-crake.html