From the Bookshelf of Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
In The Robber Bride, I experienced Margaret Atwood's brilliant character-writing. In The Handmaid's Tale, I learned just how chilling a dystopian, apocalyptic book can be. With Oryx and Crake I saw both of those aspects of Atwood's writing combined in the forms of Snowman(Jimmy), Oryx, and Crake.
As with all books of this type, it takes a little adjusting and getting used to - the world is foreign, and its unfamiliarity can make for some rough reading, but Atwood does a beautiful job of introduci ...more
As with all books of this type, it takes a little adjusting and getting used to - the world is foreign, and its unfamiliarity can make for some rough reading, but Atwood does a beautiful job of introduci ...more
[2005 review.] This book is amazing. Scary and sad and wonderful all at once. Full of all these gorgeous ideas about language and its connection to civilization. But so very unsettling and lonely too; I keep thinking about it, weeks later. Someone once said this is as if William Gibson wrote a Margaret Atwood novel, and I think that's very accurate.
2012 note: I wish I could tell my past self how much more she'll love Year of the Flood! ...more
2012 note: I wish I could tell my past self how much more she'll love Year of the Flood! ...more
Enjoyed this one a lot more than Alias Grace but not as much as The Handmaid’s Tale. Hope the rest of the trilogy is good.
This is my first time finishing an Atwood book; I started but did not finish Cat's Eye a few years ago. I listened to this on audiobook, read by my teenage dream, Campbell Scott.
I struggled for a number of reasons: First, the audiobook copied backwards so I ended up missing tracks accidentally. But more importantly, I struggle with nearly all sci-fi. So I put it down, fixed the play order, and started again.
I liked this, despite my typical struggle with science fiction, because it was about hum ...more
I struggled for a number of reasons: First, the audiobook copied backwards so I ended up missing tracks accidentally. But more importantly, I struggle with nearly all sci-fi. So I put it down, fixed the play order, and started again.
I liked this, despite my typical struggle with science fiction, because it was about hum ...more
I read the Year of the Flood first, actually, which strikes me as a stronger novel, but that doesn't take away from the fact that Oryx and Crake takes you into the mindset of life as the 'last man' in a post-apocalyptic environment of horrors we can unfortunately imagine/foresee. Very eerie.
...more
At first, I wasn't sure I could get into this book, but the more I read, I couldn't put it down. I'm not one who likes to read science fiction, though I guess Atwood calls it "speculative fiction". It was an interesting look at what life could be like when we let science get out of control. I highly recommend this book.
...more
Sep 29, 2010
Cindy
marked it as to-read
May 17, 2013
Rebecca
marked it as to-read
Jan 06, 2018
Leslie
marked it as to-read
