Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood Reviews

"What if we continue down the road we're already on? How slippery is the slope? What are our saving graces? Who's got the will to stop us?" These, the author's own words, preface this 2003 Booker Prize nominee, framing a dystopian story with similarly chilling, end-is-nigh themes to her most famous work, The Handmaid's ...  Read the complete review

Some of you might be aware that Margaret Atwood is a favourite author of mine for some very simple reasons. Her stories are interesting, thought provoking, full of beautiful and intelligent descriptions and phrases and her novels and poems are just extremely well written. Not surprisingly, Margaret Atwood has won numerous awards over the years ...  Read the complete review

Good, decent, speculative, science fiction. This work is thankfully less self-indulgent than the influential 'A Handmaid's Tale'. In the latter, and in other books I assume, Atwood has proved she can write her socks off, and do it darkly, pessimistically and as a great, long warning. Her works mirror certain classics, such as '1984' by George ...  Read the complete review

i am an admirer of margaret atwood''s novels. this, her latest, is as thoughtful, incisive and intelligent as ever. in it, she explores a dystopian future even more horrifying, perhaps, than orwell's 1984. snowman, the narrator, has survived to tell the tale, and the tale is a timely warning of the perilous possibilities of ...  Read the complete review

Just before Christmas I spent a couple of days on the train to and from work with my head inside a lurid hardback, lime green spotted with neon pink and blue. The south west trains announcer ellicted wide smiles of joy in me every time he announced a delay, while my fellow commuters scowled and buried their faces deeper into their scarves I almost ...  Read the complete review

Margaret Atwood and her publishers have denied that Atwood's new novel Oryx and Crake is science fiction. This is, of course, a matter of marketing and not literary precision. In fact, Oryx and Crake stands directly in a lineage that began with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Representative of a literary mode that could not exist outside of ...  Read the complete review

Those who haven't been around for long will not ahime' remember me... I used to spend quite some (considerable) time dooyoo-ing and reading and rating and posting... Then this book came along, which seemed worth returning from (self-imposed) exile for - I must shout about this book to all dooyoo-ers if any who might still be ...  Read the complete review