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This is one of the most important and necessary novels written in the twenty-first century so far. It’s relevant, it’s powerful and it really is needed. Go read it! Margaret Atwood ended the world in Oryx and Crake. She presented a vision of the future that wasn’t too far removed from where the planet is heading. And, in a way, this book is an answer to such environmental catastrophe. Firstly though, it’s worth mentioning that this isn’t really a sequel, it’s told alongside the events of the
Throughout my adult life, every time I've set to fretting about something, if I have ever been composed of the proper combination of melancholy, apathy, and bitters to warrant the interest of my hovering mother, in a state of exasperation she always runs a line on me about perspective, about humbling myself by pondering the countless masses of people in the world who have it so much worse than me; that I should always feel grateful, and that thinking otherwise is simply being small-minded and se...
“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.” The Year of the Flood is a fabulous and thought provoking novel from Margaret Atwood! And yet another novel from Atwood that I will need to read multiple times! Though the second book in the trilogy, The Year of the Flood, is more a companion novel to Oryx and Crake (Book 1) than a continuation of it. The lives of the main characters, Ren and Toby, intersect with Jimmy (Snowman) and Glenn (Crake) from Oryx and Crake, but the e...
I'd been meaning to read this novel – book two in Atwood's dystopian MaddAddam trilogy – for a while. Who knew that it would take a pandemic to get me to finally pick it up?The setting turned out to be very fitting. As readers of Oryx And Crake, the first book in the trilogy, know, a man-made biological disease (called "the Waterless Flood") has wiped out much of the population, and along with a handful of ragged survivors, genetically-modified creatures now roam the earth, as well as strange, h...
A brilliant satire! The Year of the Flood explores the touchy feely side of the end of the world. How did the free love hippy, earth, organic crowd see the coming quake. How did they prepare. Who were they? It was a fascinating journey. Also the points of view in this book were primarily women. One was a life weary intelligent person who learned to adapt and the other a vacuous, naïve young girl and how she saw the world she grew up in. In this one, we get to see an adult view of how this happen...
**update**YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ ORYX AND CRAKE FIRST. The Year of the Flood is not a sequel even though goodreads lists it as Maddadam trilogy #2. It's more like a completely different story about the same event. There is hardly any character crossover and absolutely zero information in Oryx and Crake that you need to love/enjoy/understand The Year of the Flood.I love that this story just dumps me off in the future. Lots of things aren’t explained. It’s written as if I already know what a "vi
I just can't get enough of this warped "business and science gone wild" reality, we get to see what happened in Oryx and Crake from the perspectives of other characters. This is astoundingly well written and just as outrageously well constructed as the first book! Atwood provides more detail and even more context; but how audacious to write the same book twice from different character viewpoints - and DAMN, it works so fine. 9 out of 12.2016 read
I absolutely loved this book, one of the best I ever read. Amazing how a writer can make up such a story, of an apocalyptic world caused by 'the waterless flood' (an man-made plague)..and what this self-destruction does to the world of ours. I remember loving 'Oryx and Crake' for the weirdness and confronting character of the story, but I actually liked this one a bit better, contrary to other reviewers. This because I was intrigued by and really liked the stories of the female main players in t...
I deleted my review from 6 years ago because I don't think I understood half of what was being spoken about and just got washed away by the public consensus on the book. I still think it is great, but I am sure I understand it better now and notice some glaring faults with it. As a sequel to Oryx and Crake, I remember subtle references tying it to the earlier story. Now I feel like there is nothing subtle about these references, they are so glaringly obvious, for example not only Ren but Amanda
TrilogyThis story is parallel to "Oryx and Crake" (reviewed here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...), and has several characters in common, though the writing style and overall format is quite different. Having read both, I can't decide whether it is better to read them in publication order (O&C first) or not, but it's certainly good to read them in quick succession. As with O&C, it is about the characters; many aspects are only ever partially explained, part way through, leaving the read...
I was quite annoyed in the beginning to learn that the characters were completely new and foreign to me, but I did come to like learning about them and seeing how everyone came together in the end. Overall so far, I could have gone without reading this series, but I'll finish at this point.
