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A review by katiescho741
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
3.0
This is re-read #3, and my rating has gone down a bit.
Oryx and Crake is about a man called Jimmy who was in the inner circle during the end of civilisation but had no idea about anything. I find books told by lesser characters in the plot to be interesting - the Great Gatsby and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption for example.
Crake is a scientific genius, and Oryx is beautiful and mysterious...unfortunately that's all we get from the female protagonist of this book. The lack of answers about certain things is frustrating. Some larger questions are answered, at least in part, in the next books in the trilogy, but the more intimate questions are left for us to guess at. And we have so little information to go on.
We learn of the dark childhood of Oryx, but she remains calm about everything...Jimmy tends to come off as a pervert for looking on dodgy websites and constantly asking for details about her time as a child slave. I struggle with their relationship because we don't see much of them together. Love, desire and passion are mentioned but the reader never gets to see any of it.
Atwood combines wonderfully terrifying ideas of pills for all occasions, intense plastic surgery, horrific spliced animals, and food that's almost entirely processed to create a heightened version of the 21st century. A definite read if you're a fan of bleak future-scapes, but it will leave you wanting more.
Oryx and Crake is about a man called Jimmy who was in the inner circle during the end of civilisation but had no idea about anything. I find books told by lesser characters in the plot to be interesting - the Great Gatsby and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption for example.
Crake is a scientific genius, and Oryx is beautiful and mysterious...unfortunately that's all we get from the female protagonist of this book. The lack of answers about certain things is frustrating. Some larger questions are answered, at least in part, in the next books in the trilogy, but the more intimate questions are left for us to guess at. And we have so little information to go on.
We learn of the dark childhood of Oryx, but she remains calm about everything...Jimmy tends to come off as a pervert for looking on dodgy websites and constantly asking for details about her time as a child slave. I struggle with their relationship because we don't see much of them together. Love, desire and passion are mentioned but the reader never gets to see any of it.
Atwood combines wonderfully terrifying ideas of pills for all occasions, intense plastic surgery, horrific spliced animals, and food that's almost entirely processed to create a heightened version of the 21st century. A definite read if you're a fan of bleak future-scapes, but it will leave you wanting more.