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ORYX AND CRAKE – MARGARET ATWOOD

Oryx and CrakeOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
My rating: 3/5 cats
One StarOne StarOne Star

eh.

bore-x and crake. this is a very all right book. i was just unwowed by it. initially, i liked the pacing of the book, and the way the story was spooling out between the present and past, doling its secrets out in dribs and drabs. but the characters just seemed so flimsy, and i was ultimately left with more questions than explanations. and the cutesy futuristic products and consumer culture bits are best left in the hands of a george saunders, not the queen of the long pen. however – and this maybe counts as a spoiler, but it’s just a minor plot point that is revealed somewhere in the middle and it’s not like – “oh – she has a dick!” or “they were dead the whole time,” so i say it does not qualify. but riding the train to school today, i understood the potential value for pills given to the public that they would think were to improve their sex lives but were secretly sterilizing them. the thirty or so teenagers that plowed into the train screaming and carousing who then decided that the crowded subway was the best place to get into a full-on hair pulling bitchslap fight cannot be allowed to breed. please give us those pills, geneticists…i will bake you a delicious raspberry pie.

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