Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) in Read Across Canada: A 2013 Challenge

Jul 31, 2008 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read2013, favorites, sff-audio, read2010, post-apocalypse-and-dystopia, read2008, sci-fi-fantasy, furman-link-bookclub

This book stands up to multiple readings, and I'm not sure why I don't have a review of it, but stay tuned. This is my fifth read. I re-read the trilogy to prepare for a discussion on SFF Audio, which actually answered a lot of the questions I've had in the five reads of this book.

(view spoiler) This book stands up to multiple readings, and I'm not sure why I don't have a review of it, but stay tuned. This is my fifth read. I re-read the trilogy to prepare for a discussion on SFF Audio, which actually answered a lot of the questions I've had in the five reads of this book.

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Mar 20, 2013 GateGypsy rated it it was amazing

Margaret Atwood might be my favourite speculative fiction author. This is a future I could really see and believe in.

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Aug 24, 2013 Kirsten rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: series, audiobook, romance, dystopian, alpha2016, mature-content, science

Complete! yay. For some time now I have been wanting to read a novel by Margaret Atwood, but I am unsure if this was really where I should have started. I enjoyed the world building but I found this book to be more of a prequel than a real first book in a series. What I mean by that is that it seemed like the flashbacks and the lead up the present dominated the novel, when I really just wanted to know what was going to happen next... in the present day. So the whole novel seemed like it was sett ...more

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Dec 09, 2010 Chinook rated it really liked it

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I do have a horrible habit of not even attempting to read a book until I have renewed the maximum amount of times possible and the due date is about 48 hours away, but there you go.

And that is precisely what I've done with Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Due tomorrow, finally finished on the bus this morning. Granted, it might have been finished awhile ago, if I ever found time to sleep and was able to stay awake to read a book on my morning commute on a more regular basis. But I can't rave ...more

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Apr 16, 2017 Kelly rated it it was ok

Shelves: sci-fi, canadian, borrowed-it

So slow to start, you might actually get into this story by the end. The world, for all intents and purposes, has ended and Snowman narrates his way through time after the end. Eventually you start to get an idea of who and what Oryx and Crake are and the defining moments of those relationships. Always an interesting visionary of the future, Atwood creates a biologically advanced society with designer genetic creations. This book starts the trilogy, warning ahead - deep thought required?

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