Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
ISBN: 0385503857 Global Overview for this book
Registered by tiatia of Fredericksburg, Virginia USA on 7/3/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by tiatia from Fredericksburg, Virginia USA on Sunday, July 3, 2005
In my permanent collection until I can bear to part with it.

Journal Entry 2 by tiatia from Fredericksburg, Virginia USA on Friday, October 7, 2005
From Publishers Weekly
Atwood has visited the future before, in her dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale. In her latest, the future is even bleaker. The triple whammy of runaway social inequality, genetic technology and catastrophic climate change, has finally culminated in some apocalyptic event. As Jimmy, apparently the last human being on earth, makes his way back to the RejoovenEsencecompound for supplies, the reader is transported backwards toward that cataclysmic event, its full dimensions gradually revealed. Jimmy grew up in a world split between corporate compounds (gated communities metastasized into city-states) and pleeblands (unsafe, populous and polluted urban centers). His best friend was "Crake," the name originally his handle in an interactive Net game, Extinctathon. Even Jimmy's mother-who ran off and joined an ecology guerrilla group when Jimmy was an adolescent-respected Crake, already a budding genius. The two friends first encountered Oryx on the Net; she was the eight-year-old star of a pedophilic film on a site called HottTotts. Oryx's story is a counterpoint to Jimmy and Crake's affluent adolescence. She was sold by her Southeast Asian parents, taken to the city and eventually made into a sex "pixie" in some distant country. Jimmy meets Oryx much later-after college, after Crake gets Jimmy a job with ReJoovenEsence. Crake is designing the Crakers-a new, multicolored placid race of human beings, smelling vaguely of citron. He's procured Oryx to be his personal assistant. She teaches the Crakers how to cope in the world and goes out on secret missions. The mystery on which this riveting, disturbing tale hinges is how Crake and Oryx and civilization vanished, and how Jimmy-who also calls himself "the Snowman," after that other rare, hunted specimen, the Abominable Snowman-survived. Chesterton once wrote of the "thousand romances that lie secreted in The Origin of Species." Atwood has extracted one of the most hair-raising of them, and one of the most brilliant.
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Journal Entry 3 by tobysrus from Cambridge, Massachusetts USA on Saturday, October 15, 2005
Thanks tiatia! I am looking forward to reading this and will release it back into the wild once I finish. Happy reading.......

Journal Entry 4 by tobysrus at Cambridge, Massachusetts USA on Monday, June 9, 2014

Released 9 yrs ago (6/7/2014 UTC) at Cambridge, Massachusetts USA

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I am embarrassed this book has been on Mt. TBR for so many years and I have still not read it. When HI77 asked to trade, I couldn't refuse. Eventually I will find another copy of this book and read it. In the meantime....enjoy!!

Journal Entry 5 by HI77 at Fort Myers, Florida USA on Thursday, June 12, 2014
Time is crumbling away,

like the gingerbread house
of a forgotten fairy tale.

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