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A review by hadeanstars
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
2.0
Just no.
Let me get this out of the way, I think that Atwood is a good writer, but she is still overrated. This is the 3rd of her novels I've read after The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid's Tale. The first was the best of the three, and this is the worst. I found the writing style to be almost smug, the characters to be silly and two dimensional, and the themes to be bland, even if superficially quirky. This is the conventional and unimaginative person's idea of what is unconventional and imaginative. Badly written, badly conceived and just bad. But even so, readable if you are not very demanding and want something easy. It's like cyberpunk YA written by a boomer. 3/10.
Let me get this out of the way, I think that Atwood is a good writer, but she is still overrated. This is the 3rd of her novels I've read after The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid's Tale. The first was the best of the three, and this is the worst. I found the writing style to be almost smug, the characters to be silly and two dimensional, and the themes to be bland, even if superficially quirky. This is the conventional and unimaginative person's idea of what is unconventional and imaginative. Badly written, badly conceived and just bad. But even so, readable if you are not very demanding and want something easy. It's like cyberpunk YA written by a boomer. 3/10.