Oryx and Crake - Rambling Readers

paperback, 416 pages

Published July 28, 2009 by Vintage Canada.

ISBN:: 978-0-307-39848-2

(1 review)

Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.

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Jigme Datse reviewed Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Tough slog...

2 stars

It wasn't really terrible, but it wasn't good enough to even really speculatively recommend. The writing is difficult, but not bad. Much of the book is just a slog of not that important nothingness happening (which I have had other books where not much really happens, but they are enjoyable because the writing itself is enjoyable). The writing might not be the worst I've seen in terms of weird dropping of strange language that I'll do myself, when I'm drafting something (or just not wanting to spend the time to find the right word despite not likely going back to it).

I may continue but if the following two books are as "productive" I would say it should have been a novel about 300 pages for the combined stories.