[books 2014] Margaret Atwood
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inulro1. MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
I went along to a talk and had this signed back at the end of August. This was a priority - that's how out of control my reading list has been this year.
This is the third in the trilogy following Oryx and Crake (which I read on a plane back from Argentina and can't remember much about) and The Year of the Flood, which I read on the train back from London some time within the last year.
I think The Year of the Flood was a more interesting story, but MaddAddam is much funnier. It takes place starting directly from where Year of the Flood left off with a little community trying to build some kind of a life after the plague. This includes the Crakers, the genetically-tinkered-with humanoids made by Crake, who are vulnerable and infuriating.
That's what makes the book so funny - a lot of it is Toby, the protagonist, telling the Crakers their night time story, with their interruptions. She's very patient but you can see how her patience is stretched.
The other story is the story of how Zeb came to be with the God's Gardeners cult when he's so not like them. It's all Boy's Own Adventure stuff (er - in a paranoid dystopian future) and not a little funny, especially the bit up in the Yukon where he shoots a bear.
Highly recommended.
I went along to a talk and had this signed back at the end of August. This was a priority - that's how out of control my reading list has been this year.
This is the third in the trilogy following Oryx and Crake (which I read on a plane back from Argentina and can't remember much about) and The Year of the Flood, which I read on the train back from London some time within the last year.
I think The Year of the Flood was a more interesting story, but MaddAddam is much funnier. It takes place starting directly from where Year of the Flood left off with a little community trying to build some kind of a life after the plague. This includes the Crakers, the genetically-tinkered-with humanoids made by Crake, who are vulnerable and infuriating.
That's what makes the book so funny - a lot of it is Toby, the protagonist, telling the Crakers their night time story, with their interruptions. She's very patient but you can see how her patience is stretched.
The other story is the story of how Zeb came to be with the God's Gardeners cult when he's so not like them. It's all Boy's Own Adventure stuff (er - in a paranoid dystopian future) and not a little funny, especially the bit up in the Yukon where he shoots a bear.
Highly recommended.
