I was anxious to read this book, could the last in the trilogy measure up to the first two? I’m glad to say it did! At first I was annoyed by the constant presence of the Crakers but they grow on you over time, as does the perspective of hearing a story as told to them, simplistic and filled with misinformation and half truths. The device allows for humor though (“please stop singing” and the invocation of f***) which this deep into a dystopian future […]
Addams and Eves against mankind?
The second book in Atwood’s Madd Addam trilogy traces members of a group called God’s Gardeners both before and after “The Great Waterless Flood,” i.e., the pandemic that destroyed mankind. The chapters bounce around to the different characters, years before the pandemic, and show their previous lives leading up to the destruction. The first novel followed Jimmy in his life in the compound, but these characters are the other half, the less privileged from the pleeblands. But as time goes on, connections between these two […]
Fun times with Elvis sex robots (no, really).
Hi, Margaret Atwood fangirl over here. I was SO excited that she was coming out with a new book, because I find her cultural criticism to be spot-on. I didn’t read ahead about The Heart Goes Last, but I was *sure* that her book would have some sort of cultural criticism, dystopian element, and wry humor. Of course, I was not disappointed. In The Heart Goes Last, the world is an economic wasteland. Stan and Charmaine are living in their car while desperately trying to […]
Rakunks and pigoons and wolvogs oh my!
I have an arbitrary list I revise every year of things I want to do for the year. It isn’t new years resolutions because I typically recreate it in October/November, and there are specific things, local places to visit, foods to try, versus platitudes. It isn’t exactly a bucket list because I think the term “bucket list” is stupid. I settled on calling it my “dream board” tongue-in-cheekily for lack of better terminology. To make a long story short (too late) because of the Goodreads […]
Ever Vigilant.
When I first read this book and put it down I wasn’t sure how I could ever review it. After 6 months I’m still struggling. As I read The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood it became the first book and the last book. All other books are doomed to be the mere shadow of a breath compared to the roaring gasp that is A Handmaid’s Tale. So this will not so much be a review as it will be a quick summary followed by an […]
An Abominable Snowman at the World’s End
My current research is focusing on dystopia, art, and social destruction, so it was time to give the MaddAddam trilogy a re-read. I read Oryx and Crake two and a half years ago for CBR5, and while I counted it the weakest of the trilogy then, I have to recant somewhat and give it a rave review. Allow me to explain what I mean. I won’t recap the book for you here, since I did so two years ago. Instead, I’ll share my insights from […]
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