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Title: Oryx and Crake
Author: Margret Atwood
Published: New York: Doubleday (Random House), 2003
Page Count: 376
Total Page Count: 26,085
Text Number: 76
Read For: my enjoyment, checked out from the library
Short review: After an genetic apocalypse that has wiped out the human race, a man who calls himself Snowman watches over a band of genetically-modified humans. He is running out of supplies, and so he makes the decision to leave his treetop camp and trek across the jungle wasteland of a town in search of supplies. As he journeys, he thinks back to his childhood, his friend Crake, his lover Oryx, and the civilization and sequence of events that lead up to the apocalypse. The flashbacks and the current story come together when Snowman makes it to Crake's laboratory, the Paradice Project. A book of inventive, logical fictional science, Oryx and Crake is a gripping, engrossing, and though-provoking read. Atwood's analysis of human nature and society's future is incredibly realistic and unsettling, her exploration of genetic engineering is based in science and is similarly unsettling, and these concepts are told in a witty, dark writing style and surrounded by complex and realistic characters all with their own stories. I greatly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.
( Long review. )
Review posted here at Amazon.com.
Author: Margret Atwood
Published: New York: Doubleday (Random House), 2003
Page Count: 376
Total Page Count: 26,085
Text Number: 76
Read For: my enjoyment, checked out from the library
Short review: After an genetic apocalypse that has wiped out the human race, a man who calls himself Snowman watches over a band of genetically-modified humans. He is running out of supplies, and so he makes the decision to leave his treetop camp and trek across the jungle wasteland of a town in search of supplies. As he journeys, he thinks back to his childhood, his friend Crake, his lover Oryx, and the civilization and sequence of events that lead up to the apocalypse. The flashbacks and the current story come together when Snowman makes it to Crake's laboratory, the Paradice Project. A book of inventive, logical fictional science, Oryx and Crake is a gripping, engrossing, and though-provoking read. Atwood's analysis of human nature and society's future is incredibly realistic and unsettling, her exploration of genetic engineering is based in science and is similarly unsettling, and these concepts are told in a witty, dark writing style and surrounded by complex and realistic characters all with their own stories. I greatly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.
( Long review. )
Review posted here at Amazon.com.
