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... in Venice Right, ho, Jeeves The White Tiger The Complete Stories of Mark Twain Ulysses Johnny Got His Gun Oryx and Crake A Passage to India Blink Babylon by Bus The Brothers Karamazov

I love The Handmaid's Tale too. I liked Oryx and Crake but not nearly as much as The Handmaid's Tale. I have Surfacing and Cat's Eye waiting to be read. I am not sure if they are dystopian. I do love Atwood's writing though. I think it is very accessible and fairly easy to read. I am not ...

I'm in. I've never read any Atwood so I look forward to April. I am thinking I may start with Oryx and Crake, but it doesn't sound like I can go wrong with any of them.

... you read Margaret Atwood's latest, The Year of the Flood? I just finished that, and now I need to go back and read Oryx and Crake. I mean, you can read it on its own, but it made me want to refresh my memory on O&C--it has been years since I read that.

From memory, I think The Handmaid's Tale is less 'literary' than Oryx and Crake. Both were good reads, but I liked The Handmaid's Tale better, so I'd recommend reading that one first... Dystopians are always fun, as a general category; I'm in the midst of reading Atlas Shrugged from a ...

Glad to see you back, Zoe! I read Oryx and Crake in 2009 (my first ever Atwood book) and really enjoyed it. I have The Year of the Flood home from the library now to read - it would also fit your Dystopian category.

I just read The Handmaid's Tale. It was amazing, definitely one of my top reads. Oryx and Crake is on my TBR list for next year.

... to focus more on the non-fiction dystopias (about peak oil, etc.). And maybe I'll fit in either The Handmaid's Tale or Oryx and Crake for Atwood in April.

8. Fantasy A. Briar Rose by Jane Yolen Group Read - March B. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Group Read – April C. Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling Bk 1 (and prob other 3) D. Aurian by Maggie Furey Bk 1 (and prob other 3) E. The Moon and ...

... year goes on. 1. Selected poems of W.H. Auden 2. The Scary Stories Treasury For October 3. Either Alias Grace or Oryx and Crake For the April read. Haven't decided which one.

I recently added Oryx and Crake to my wishlist, so that is the one I plan (for now) to read in April. I know I read one of hers many years ago, but I can't remember which. Another reason I am so happy to have found LT!

... Aristotle Foundation, Isaac Asimov The House of Spirits, Isabel Allende Of Love and Shadows, Isabel Allende Oryx and Crake, Margaret Attwood The Handmaid's Tale Cat's Eye Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Regeneration, Pat Barker Eucalyptus, Murray Bail Pere Goriot ...

... on my own to see what the hubbub is about. I bought The Year of the Flood, but don't want to start it until I finish Oryx and Crake. As for me, I fell in love with Jeannette Walls' writing this year after reading The Glass Castle and hope Santa brings me her latest novel for Christmas ...

This year I found and fell in love with Margaret Atwood. To date I have read: The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, The Penelopiad and am currently finishing The Year of the Flood. I love it when I find an author that compels me to find everything they have ever written and Atwood is ...

... reading The Blind Assassin on the tube so maybe I'll go for that instead ...I also have The Robber Bride TBR, and also Oryx and Crake- but this is not in the 1001 books

Maybe we could have a group read or two? I'm already thinking of doing Oryx and Crake for the Atwood in April....

... ities: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

... I use them to mark favourite passages, so that if I know that, say, Margaret Atwood wrote something charmingly funny in Oryx and Crake, I can find it again. I use a simple colour-coded system in my research books, so that important passages dealing with settlements are marked with bronze, ...

... so I will see what I think of it. Looks interesting! I enjoyed Colour of Lightning and Year of the Flood (and Oryx and Crake for that matter) but I love Jiles and Atwood.

... satisfied I finished Year of the Flood. Margaret Atwood remains ham handed. I am in no way tempted to go back to Oryx and Crake to remind myself of the carry over characters. Then I read most of A.B. Guthrie's Fair Land, Fair Land. This book was written to fill a ...

Wrong thread, but hello everybody anyway. Robert

... I think I need to be in the right frame of mind to read her. So far, I've read The handmaid's tale, The blind assassin, Oryx and Crake and Alias Grace. Is The robber bride a bit more upbeat than those?

... it kind of distracted me. The war of the worlds was much better imo. I don't know why, I kept thinking about Crake in Oryx and Crake while reading. 4/5

... it kind of distracted me. The war of the worlds was much better imo. I don't know why, I kept thinking about Crake in Oryx and Crake while reading. 4/5

... science fiction and she's treading some well worn ground. ) Anyway, none of this means a damned thing really because Oryx and Crake is a very tight, very well constructed beauty of a thing. It's what I imagine Ted Chiang would produce if he didn't stick to short fiction.

(I wrote offline, after I read the first post, but before I read any of the subsequent ones. Sorry.) I loved Oryx and Crake, much for the reason that it is about the events leading to the apocalypse rather than the events after. Most post-apocalyptic books have only a vague reference to Before ...

... left struggle to survive, often forming small groups and fighting each other. Stephen King's The Stand comes to mind. Oryx and Crake isn't really a post-apocalyptic novel in this sense. The focus of the novel is society before the catastrophe, rather than afterward. Atwood imagines a ...

43. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

... all the positive comments about her work by members of this challenge, though, I've decided to give her another try with Oryx and Crake.) Wyndham's rather less-horrifying take revolves around a society in which all men have died and female humans have become specialized (think of the Biblic ...

I'm about 39% into Oryx and Crake. I really need to find more time to read it, although it's somewhat slow.

I was wondering about The Year of the Flood. I really felt alienated by Oryx and Crake, and it's one of the few Atwood book I haven't held onto. Now I feel reassured about her latest book. Thanks.

Just finished and loved The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. I preferred it to Oryx and Crake primarily, I think, because it is focused on women/girls and the relationships they forge which suits Atwood and me better. . .

... methodology), I think she'll persevere. And nobody's mentioned what I think are her best--The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake. Hemingway? I'll take The Old Man and the Sea over anything he's done, and over anything most of the American modernists have done,any day. Maybe it helps ...

#134: I really enjoyed Oryx and Crake, so I must find a copy of The Year of the Flood! I just found out my local library finally has a copy of it in - YES!! It has now been placed on hold for me!

56. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood I absolutely loved this post-apocalyptic book which stands beside Oryx and Crake but focuses on the folks that live in the plebelands particularly a religious cult called the Gardeners. I liked Oryx and Crake, but just felt so much more connected ...

... The Year of the Flood and was fairly disappointed with it. I've admired so many of her novels over the years, including Oryx and Crake, but this new one just didn't connect and I was glad to be done with it. I just finished Philip Caputo's new book Crossers and while it was reasonable ...

... Flood and absolutely loving it. If you are a Margart Atwood fan at all, get this book. It is set in the same world as Oryx and Crake but focuses on the plebelands, young women, and The Gardeners religious group. I love how her world-building is so effortless and the characters so real that ...

I love Margaret Atwood but even though I've tried several times, I can't seem to get into Oryx and Crake. Because of that I will probably just skip her newest. The Handmaid's Tale is my absolute favorite of hers and Mark, yup, it's a good one to read. Also a dystopic story but very, very ...

... only Margaret Atwood novel I’d read prior to this one was The Handmaid’s Tale, which I loved. But having never read Oryx and Crake, the companion to Year of the Flood, I didn’t know what to expect. Now that I’ve finished it, I’m not entirely sure what to make of it. It left me ...

Finished Atwood's Year of the Flood; nice companion to Oryx and Crake but not quite as good. Also finished The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which was... ok. Had its good moments, but the most sympathetic character was the dog. Pondering what to read now. Still working my way thru Wi ...

Wow, The Year of the Flood is LESS creepy than Oryx and Crake?? I'm reading Flood now and I've been finding it pretty darn creepy at times. Blanco actually gave me nightmares the other night. I didn't find it so disturbing as I read but I guess it got under my skin more than I'd thought. I ...

Okay, we've chosen Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood, for our first book. At BrotherCaine's suggestion, let's try to sync up after about a month, say between Friday November 15 and Sunday November 17. That'll give people time to read the book, and make the discussion more like a MetaFilter ...

One vote for Oryx and Crake. I've been meaning to check out Atwood.

Looks like The City and the City and Oryx and Crake have about the same number of votes. Something that just occurred to me: The City and the City came out quite recently, and is only available in hardcover. Since we're still in a recession, would people rather read an older book that's ...

... read anything by China Mieville before). Here's the votes so far: The City and the City, by China Mieville: 6 Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood: 5 Hotel de Dream, by Edmund White: 2 The Savage Garden, by Mark Mills: 2 Once we've picked a book (maybe in a day or so), we ...

I've been wanting to read both The City and The City and Oryx and Crake.

... read it. Some dystopian nominations: Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban The Drowned World, by J. G. Ballard Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood The MetaTalk thread which sparked this: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/18332/Metafilter-Book-Club

Notes on a Scandal was very good. Oryx and Crake I found OK, but not my favourite Atwood by a long chalk. Haven't read the others, though I have a copy of Astonishing Splashes of Colour.

Looking forward to your review of the Atwood - I loved Oryx and Crake.

just checked out the Booker shortlist for that year, unfortunately i've not read any of the other titles (Oryx and Crake, Brick Lane, Notes on a Scandal, The Good Doctor, Astonishing Splashes of Colour), so can't form an opinion on VGL's prize-worthiness vs. the others. perhaps others who ...

... andidates: The Year Of The Flood by Margaret Atwood (I don't actually own this yet, but it looks like it's in the vein of Oryx and Crake which I loved so my chances of buying it this year are pretty good). A Strong and Sudden Thaw by R W Day (Recommended by Jenson_AKA_DL) The Children of M ...

... that I won't read a book until January, it instantly becomes the most alluring book in the world. I'm planning to read Oryx and Crake for the Atwood in April group read and so look forward to hearing what you think of The Year of the Flood.

70. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Atwood is my favorite author and I didn't expect anything less. I really enjoyed Atwood's perspective on what could happen to our world if we keep moving forward the way we do. The theme of science being let to get out of control is very pertinent to ...

... it four times now. I've finished The Year of the Flood since; I really liked it. I think it works best if you've read Oryx and Crake, and I hope the trilogy rumors are true. I'm now one chapter into 26a by Diana Evans.

... for me. The book is hardcovered and by an author whom I claim not to like. But dystopias interest me, and I have read Oryx and Crake. I haven't been able to bring myself to finish Home, and that's by an author I admire. Anyway, in one hand it seems to have some heft. Robert

... to be a sequel, which I would read. Book 165 is The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, the companion book to Oryx and Crake. For some reason even though I didn't enjoy Oryx and Crake, I did enjoy The Year of the Flood. I think it might have come down to the fact that I just ...

... "Hey, Obama likes Hemingway, must be a solid guy." Better for swaying voters than picking, say Twilight, or Lolita, or Oryx and Crake. BTW, you would probably get more responses about FWtBT if the book was mentioned in the thread title. People might assume this is a political discussion ...

... Men. 53. Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood I really enjoyed this one. I hadn't realized that it was connected to Oryx and Crake, but the stories parallel each other and have some of the same characters. I found this one to be less creepy than Oryx and Crake, though.

... by Margaret Atwood Not my favorite of hers. It was definitely un-put-downable, but I just didn't enjoy it as much as I did Oryx and Crake or The Blind Assassin. Part of the problem may have been that earlier this week I read The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. Even though they were quite ...

... read sf, because it dispels some of the stereotypes about the genre and gives you a great story as well. I see you have Oryx and Crake in your library. It's also one of my favourite sci fi novels, and now that you've dipped into the genre, you should be ready for that one. It's actually less ...

Glad I am not the only person who did not love Oryx and Crake. I also did not care for Cat's Eye. I still have a couple of Atwood's other books in my to be read pile. If I don't have a more positive experience with them, I think I'll pretty much be giving up on her. Loved your review of A W ...

... the decade they were written. I would be tempted to suspect this is because of male authors dominating this niche, but... Oryx and Crake was written by a woman (a feminist oriented one at that, if her books are any indication) and it also has no significant female characters. Hope you enjoy ...

... an ER book or see a review here) 1. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen - *** 10/4/09 2. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 3. Life in the Medieval Cloister by Julie Kerr *** 11/3/09 4. A Life Decoded by J. Craig Venter 5. A Strong ...

... Handmaid's Tale. And, I would add Cat's Eye, which was great too. I hope you like some of her other work better than Oryx and Crake!

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett And, I think, The Likeness by Tana Frenchwhich I am reading now. Only four so far. I had two rereads this quarter. Might squeeze in a fifth new ...

The more Atwood I read, the more I love her writing. My first was Oryx and Crake, which I really liked. I agree that The Handmaid's Tale is her best-known, and while I thought it was very good, it was definitely not my favourite (I read it as part of a whole dystopian series, and it didn't ...

#169: Sorry you did not enjoy Oryx and Crake more, Trish. I enjoyed it when I read it earlier this year, but then, I am inclined to like dystopian novels. I hope your next experience with Atwood is better. May I suggest trying The Penelopiad? It is fairly short.

... So good to hear from all of you. Alcott--I will be on the look out for House of Stone. Sounds interesting. 45.Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Crake, Jimmy and Oryx are products of a new world that is characterized by genetic engineering, plastic surgery, creation of new species ...

... so I really liked The handmaid's tale (Tjänarinnans berättelse in Swedish). But my favourite Atwood is without a doubt Oryx and Crake - so far. I've only read four.

... needed a tidier copy 3 books I have borrowed from the library in the past and were on my wishlist:- The Blind Assassin; Oryx and Crake and The Pillars of the Earth Also a copy of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - recommended by someone on LT (before I started noting ...

From Sandydog1's library I would pick Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - hearing good things for the book and I've never read anything by Atwood.

Year of the Flood for sure, most likely Oryx and Crake before it. Considering that I've never read anything by her, I might end up reading a few more - especially if I like these two.

I've also struggled with Oryx and Crake. I've tried to read it several times and can't seem to get very far into it. I won't give my copy away though - I know someday it'll click. I've read a lot of Atwood's other books and thoroughly enjoyed them. The Handmaid's Tale is my favorite. I own ...

#159 petersonvl & #161 teelgee My book discussion group read Oryx and Crake. About half of us liked it and half of us didn't. It was my first Atwood book and for me it wasn't that good. I did manage to finish the book but think that there has got to be a better Atwood book. Some people ...

... not know if that makes it a mystery but I am being generous in my definitions!) or I was thinking of reading the sequel to Oryx and Crake (F&SF). Offhand can't remember the title! Handmaids Tale is also possible as a re-read!

... sure) recently that Neal Stephenson's Anathem is a similar story and I am hoping to get to Anathem soon. I really like Oryx and Crake, too.

... don't remember it very well, it seems that it was one I like. I see that they're releasing it again in November though. Oryx and Crake isn't bad either... (and you did say you're Canadian!)

Finished Oryx and Crake last night. I'm going to have to give it some thought before I write a review. The skill of the author was readily apparent, but I didn't come away with a high regard for her thinking. The satire was too banal, the philosophy was too cynical, and the science was too ...

>37 fredbacon -- do give Oryx and Crake some time -- it took me three tries to get into it, but it was well worth the attempts.

After puttering around all week, I finally decided to pick up Oryx and Crake last night. Not impressed so far, but I'll give it more time.

I have "6. Leftover Novels from 2009" category which is for any 2009 year book. So I definitely will add it... and Oryx and Crake needs to go in category 11 if it really is a followup to it :)

... Year of the Flood, in there as well. It's going to be released very soon and I understand that the setting is similar to Oryx and Crake.

... authors, 1 new, 1 established and 1 deceased 1. 2. 3. Possibilites: Mother: Margaret Atwood probably Oryx and Crake Crone: The Last Man by Mary Shelley

... . On my TBR for Atwood I have: The Robber Bride, Life Before Man, Dancing Girls, The Edible Woman, Bodily Harm, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood. I might read one or two this year, and the rest will be for next year. I would like to read some of her poetry and non-fiction ...

Eight Margaret Atwood Titles 1. Murder in the Dark 2. Oryx and Crake 3. The Year of the Flood 4. The Robber Bride 5. Life Before Man 6. The Edible Woman 7. Dancing Girls 8. Bodily Harm I also own Wilderness Tips, so this category could move to #9, and Montgomery ...

... in and out, impressed me as few books ever have. Used copies are still obtainable at reasonable prices. I second Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood because the reviews sound like I'd like it.

My nominations: Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Carnival by Elizabeth Bear

... go for her darker stuff like The Bloody Chamber. I also second Fanny Price's recommendations of Atwood's dystopias. In Oryx and Crake and the forthcoming Year of the Flood, she does display a bit of humor along with the grimness, as befitting a dystopian satire. Apologies for running ...

... writer but has written two excellent dystopias that could fall into a sci-fi category of sorts - The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake are both fantastic. I myself have not read any Octavia Butler, but have been recommended her many times by people who enjoy female-authored sci-fi/fantas ...

... worlds that they are not easily left behind. I'll be glad to revisit it. God's Gardeners were mentioned multiple times in Oryx and Crake without a great deal of explanation, so she surely was planning her coming sequel. I've put The Year of the Flood on my TBR list, but will have to wait for ...

I finished Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake last night. I gave this book four stars and rank it with the best of Atwood's other novels. The final test of a good book to me is that the characters and their dilemmas stay with me and I continue to puzzle over them afterwards. A little too early to ...

I finished Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake last night. I came to enjoy this novel very much and was intrigued by how the story was gradually revealed, starting at the end and flashing back to various stages. Atwood's chilling future world bears an eerie resemblance to what our own could become, ...

... in German Lettres persanes Guide républicain Modern Literary Arabic Dystopias: Fact and Fiction Oryx and Crake The Handmaid's Tale Among the Brave Among the Enemy Among the Free *Catching Fire *Hunger Games 3 $20 Per Gallon *The Ecotechnic Future ...

Still working on Oryx and Crake, having been interrupted by cataract surgery on Thursday and still mucking around with what glasses to wear for what. The right glasses always seem to be in the other room. It will be a month before the other eye is done and everything settles down so I'm a bit off.

... When you are engulfed in flames by David Sedaris (now I understand where the title comes from!) and have started Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.

... because of Burmese Days and especially the United States, because of Lolita, The Jungle, The Sound and the Fury, Oryx and Crake, and..... ;)

... 1930s Brazil. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. Forthcoming in September, this is a terrific parallel story to Oryx and Crake and somewhat more in keeping with our somewhat more optimistic times. Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun. A short novel set in Morocco and Spain ...

132, I was affected in a similar way by Atwood's Oryx and Crake. I'll never think about genetic research and environmental degradation, in the same way.

... and I preferred 1984 - but since that's not for you, you may enjoy the former more? I still haven't got round to reading Orxy and Crake, so I feel I should read that before the new one, but I agree, it does sound good (will I resist?)!

I was a tad disturbed by Oryx and Crake. Dystopian novels remind me of real-world issues, like those described in Hot, Flat and Crowded.

Just finished Oryx and Crake. It reminded me, (a bit too much) of Hot, Flat and Crowded.

I just finished Oryx and Crake. 'Better scratch dytopian novels off my list. That was way to similar to Hot, Flat and Crowded. 'No more dystopian literature for me, without shovel-loads of paxil, prozac, lexapro, etc., etc. (...sneaks off to pick up copies of Chicken Soup for the Soul, ...

19. Oryx and Crake Gloomy, gloomy, gloomy, frightful, gloomy, gloomy, depressingly perverted, gloomy. Pretty good; I'll give it 4 stars.

19. Oryx and Crake Gloomy, gloomy, gloomy, frightful, gloomy, gloomy, depressingly perverted, gloomy. Pretty good; I'll give it 4 stars.

Thanks again, BJ. I'm now dabbling in a bit of dystopia. 'Almost finished with Oryx and Crake.

Time for some good ol' dystopian fun. Now I'm listening to Oryx and Crake. After this genetic engineering and environmental disaster story, I think I'll stay clear of Ms. Atwood for a while. Enough of the bleak. This stuff reminds me of books like Hot, Flat and Crowded.

>115, oh, Amber, you have SUCH fun ahead of you! Oryx and Crake awaits, and then her new one due out later this year (maybe already out in Canada?), The Year of the Flood, picks up on the characters and themes of Oryx. Plus of course all the other Atwood that is perhaps a little less close to "s ...

... l In the Skin of a Lion – Michael Ondaatje Anil's Ghost – Michael Ondaatje Beautiful Losers – Leonard Cohen Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye – Margaret Atwood The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields *Note: As an ...

... iver The Nanny Diaries New Moon The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B One Hundred Years of Solitude Oryx and Crake The Prestige Peony in Love Shutter Island The Terror True at First Light I'll do a separate post for non-fiction. But my real goal is to ...

... chett East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse** by Louise Erdrich Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Crow Lake by Mary Lawson **Best of the best.

... oldy--1993. She does have a new one coming out in September. I forget what it's called, but it's set in the same world as Oryx and Crake.

... I'm on page 377 out of 529, and am absolutely loving this book! I think it might be my favourite Atwood yet (I've read Oryx and Crake, the Handmaid's Tale, Surfacing, The Penelopiad and Alias Grace. I liked all of those too, but not as much as this one). I should finish in the next ...

... The Handmaid's Tale has always sounded intriquing, and I believe Atwood is an excellent storyteller. I didn't realize Oryx and Crake was also post-apocalyptic. How could I have forgotten The Stand? Despite the supernatural aspects, and the fact that I read it many years ago, this is ...

Another Margaret Atwood: :Oryx and Crake. Her book that comes out in September The Year of the Flood seems to be in the same timeline according to those who have read ER copies.

... mith 7. We Need To Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver 8. A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian, Marina Lewycka 9. Oryx and Crake, M Atwood 10. The Colour, Rose Tremain 11. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker 12. What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt phew !

... books, and I'll try to get to a few of them in July: Half of a Yellow Sun Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living Oryx and Crake Purple Hibiscus Unless The Idea of Perfection Fugitive Pieces What I Loved Brick Lane Gilgamesh The Vintner's Luck The Idea of Per ...

... ratings, (only would have rated The Leopard higher) especially such favorites as Bel Canto, A Mercy, Three Junes, Oryx and Crake and The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse. Besides the fact that Beloved is my favorite book and A Mercy is very similar, I think it ...

I got an ARC of Atwood's The Year of the Flood yesterday. I loved Orxy and Crake. I didn't think I could bear to wait another two months or whatever. It is good to have contacts among local purveyors of books. Unfortunately, right now all my reading time is being taken up with reading about ...

... am hoping to read The Handmaid's Tale some time this year. I had not read any Atwood until earlier this year when I read Oryx and Crake and have since read The Penelopiad as well. I will try to remember about the ending of Tale. I read The Girls earlier this year and like it very much. ...

... ETA: Yes, I also read The Penelopiad recently, Linda's memory is intact. I enjoyed it, too, but not as much as I liked Oryx and Crake.

... the purchase of Unaccustomed Earth yesterday, I broke my no-new-books rule :( To be honest, I also bought Atwood's Oryx and Crake!

My goodness, I disliked Oryx and Crake, so perhaps I should try again in two years. Her new book is supposed to be similar to this one.

I finished Oryx and Crake and am just starting the new Sarah Waters book, The Little Stranger. Looking forward to immersion in this one!

... src="http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/d2/7e/d27ee80b338fcab59326e345241434d414f4541.jpg"> 36. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Well, as they say, third time's a charm. I tried two time in years past to read this book and don't think I got past page 30. Bu ...

I'm reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I think I'll make it through this time - my third attempt to read this book. I'm hooked into it now. I bought the new Sarah Waters book today - The Little Stranger - so that's next up. Can't wait!

... from Penelope's perspective. It's a salute to Atwood's talent that she can write a book like this as well as a book like Oryx and Crake.

>66 & 67 I'm currently in the middle of Oryx and Crake and I love it! Margaret Atwood's books can always go two ways with me: either I love, love, love her books or I can't get through them! Oryx and Crake is definitely of the first category. But then I have to admit, I'm a sucker for ...

>66 - I've tried to read Oryx and Crake twice and have only gotten about 60 or so pages in. I won't get rid of my copy though - I know I'll get hooked by it eventually. I also loved The Space Between Us.

Just finished The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar, rather tough read but so well written. Now I'm starting Oryx and Crake by Atwood -- I am determined to read it this time, or at least give it ~100 pages. I started it a couple times in years past and didn't get very far.

Margaret Atwood's forthcoming novel, The Year of the Flood is a parallel story to her Oryx and Crake set in the same world but outside the gated compounds. I've posted my comments on the book's page if one is interested (no spoilers included). It can be read without having read O&C, but it's ...

Thanks for the tip on The Year of the Flood, marise. I liked Oryx and Crake, and look forward to reading this offshoot. Semaphone looks very good, too.

>83, My experience with Atwood has been very mixed as well. I could NOT get into Surfacing, but I enjoyed both Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid's Tale. I am a fan of the dystopia genre, however, so that probably explains it.

14. Oryx and Crake -Atwood 4/7 15. The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference - Lawrence Venuti 4/19 16. Malinche (spanish edition) - Laura Esquivel 5/11

Want! Time to pre-order... I was one of the ones who loved Oryx and Crake, so I'm really looking forward to this new book.

#75: I definitely have to look for that one, Marise. I enjoyed Oryx and Crake quite a bit when I read it earlier this year. Thanks for the recommendation!

... Atwood. This was an advanced reading copy graciously loaned to me by an LT friend. It is a story that runs parallel to Oryx and Crake, which I read last year, but it could stand on its own as well. I think Atwood has really topped herself with this one! I was completely immersed in this ...

I'm now reading Oryx and Crake, which is taking me a long time. Not that I'm not enjoying it, I am, but I just haven't had much time lately. Busy preparing the nursery, which is at least just as much fun! ^^ Also reading Ethan Frome through DailyLit, which is really good. I think I'm becoming ...

>34 interesting! I have to add Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake to the list of dystopias written post 9/11 (2004, I think). Unlike The Pesthouse or The Road though, hers is satirical.

Great review; I'll have to add both books to my list. I see that Oryx and Crake was shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize. One of my long-term goals is to read most of the shortlisted books, so I'll definitely get to it in the next year or two.

Lois, thank you for this review! I will make an effort to reread Oryx and Crake before this one is released. I have to admit that it wasn't one of my favorites by her but if it will help with the flow of this novel, I will definitely give it another go. And I love it when authors weave in ...

... at how witty Margaret Atwood can be. If you have ever seen an interview of her, you've seen this wonderful dry wit. In Oryx and Crake, as with this new novel, she writes a story which, in some parts are as bad-ass and suspenseful as McCarthy's The Road, but she adds this satirical, ...

... is set in the Pleeblands --- the rough urban areas outside of the secure corporate compounds we became familiar with in Oryx and Crake. The book is divided into thirteen chapters, each named after a holiday observed by God’s Gardeners (i.e. Saint Dian Day...as in Dian Fossey) and each ...

13. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Hmm still digesting this one, unlike the Handmaid's Tail I didn't find this one quite so creeply plausible. Still it was a good book and definitely worth a read and no doubt I'll end up buying more books from this author.

... all are echoing the current book I'm reading, Margaret Atwood's forthcoming dystopia satire, set in the same future as her Oryx and Crake called The Year of the Flood. So, guess what the waterless flood is? It begins with "P" and ends with a "C"...

... the other is an A-Z title challenge. I figure I'll read one book from each one. For example, A in A-Z Author Challenge: Oryx and Crake by Atwood A in A-Z Title Challenge: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand So those are my three books that I'm working on. Wish me luck everyone! (Oh ...

The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake, both excellent novels by Margaret Atwood. The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison was lots of fun. Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan was a pretty good cyberpunk detective novel. The first person narration played an important role in ...

... I have another of his on my TBR pile. So, I'm in the future with The Year of the Flood, it's the same future as Oryx and Crake but perhaps earlier? (I recognize the green rabbits, rakunks and bobkittens...). She's definitely put more humor in this one.

I'm just finishing The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi, a fine book if a bit grim. Not sure what's up next, maybe Oryx and Crake.

... The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006), Our American King by David Lozell Martin (published on 9/11/07, satirical) eta Oryx and Crake (2004, satirical) I'm tempted to throw Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet in this group, but it really doesn't fit. "the primary physicists from ...

>30 I'm a rather recent Atwood convert, having read Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid's Tale back-to-back. I haven't heard of Lady Oracle, but I'll definitely be checking into it! Mother Night is my second favorite Vonnegut novel, followed by Cat's Cradle which I have a particular ...

... with a previous post that Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale isn't really sci fi - it is, it just isn't conventional sci fi. Oryx and Crake by the same author is also excellent.

... 7/17/09 28. The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton 7/26/09 29. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris 8/1/09 30. Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood 8/11/09 31. The Little Book, Selden Edwards 8/22/09 32. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson 8/26/09 33. The Hour I First B ...

26. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood I generally love Margaret Atwood’s books – the richness of her character’s ‘stream of consciousness’ musings, and how well they come together to shape fascinating and thought-provoking stories. This one promised to be an interesting cautionary ...

I've tried reading Oryx and Crake three times now and despite the fact I really enjoy Atwood's writing, I have never got past half way through.

... like Atwood's writing. The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace I consider brilliant, and yet I was unable to finish Oryx and Crake when I attempted it, even though I gave it three seperate tries.

#36: I read Oryx and Crake earlier this year and really enjoyed it, too. It was the first Atwood book I had ever read. Glad you enjoyed it, too!

18: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Oh man was this a good book. Amazing character development, but still manages to be a huge surprise, and leave you wanting more. Every page leaves you just on the edge of confusion, but in a good way.

... but good condition) Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (Paperback, unread but slight dint on the page edges) Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (Well thumbed, spine creased and cover worn but perfectly readable) The Remains of the Day by Kasuo Ishiguro (Unread) The El ...

I've only read two Margaret Atwood novels: Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid's Tale, neither of which was exactly upbeat (though "Oryx and Crake" did have some LOL moments).

... cruelty immediately disturbs me. Far more than humans, though not sure why. Especially cats. I remember a sentence in Oryx and Crake to do with nastiness to cats and have never forgotten it. And I know there are others.

... latter is bad - I enjoyed Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride, and Alias Grace wasn't bad - but The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake are her best. I suggest you try at least one of those. Not sure what i'll be reading this month. I'm rereading The Handmaid's Tale and I might pick up D ...

... The Blind Assassin, although it was the first - and only, to date - Atwood I'd read. I have The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake in the TBR box....

... was my favorite fiction read of last year. I think that is the book which most commonly draws people to read more Atwood. Oryx and Crake was dystopian genetic engineering stuff, and I felt like it was a warning elaborately disguised as a novel. I wasn't crazy about it. So, 2 negatives and 1 ...

Also- Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis and a Mooch- Death of a Celebrity by M.C. Beaton Don't know why but while typing in the above message my computer suddenly posted it without my hitting ...

... A Monstrous Regiment of Women AUDIO 63) The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie AUDIO 64) A Reliable Wife AUDIO 65) Oryx and Crake AUDIO 66) Fun Home 67) The Final Solution AUDIO 68) American Gods AUDIO 69) Homer's Odyssey AUDIO 70) The Good Thief AUDIO 71) The Romanov Br ...

Welcome to the group! I have read both Oryx and Crake and The Hunger Games this year as well and liked them. The Hunger Games has made my list of memeorable reads for the year, in fact, and I am anxious for the sequel coming out later in the year.

... (***) 3. The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry (***) 4. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (****) 5. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (****) 6. Fool by Christopher Moore (*****) 7. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (****1/2) 8. The Handmaid's Tale ...

No particular order: Fool by Christopher Moore The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut I've been on a bit of a dystopian/Margaret Atwood kick of late . . ...

My favorites so far this year would be... Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore Queenpin by Megan Abbott Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer Happy Hour at Casa Dracula by Marta Acosta (no particular order)

8. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Here is yet another dystopian fiction novel on my list. I liked this a little more than the other Atwood novel I've read - The Handmaid's Tale. There were some fascinating aspects to this novel that make it one of the better recent dystopian novels I've ...

... value: The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel Your suggestion: The Handmaid's Tale OTOH although my Canadian edition of Oryx and Crake doesn't have a novel in the title on the title page, (it does on the cover) at least two editions published in the US do include a novel,* so I ...

... so far (now on Disc 7) it hasn't been. I'm a recent convert to Margaret Atwood's work, having listened to Oryx and Crake last year, but I can see how some would find the sci-fi elements of her work offputting and confusing.

... a western, it is an alternate history", that doesn't make it not a western. Similarly, when Margaret Atwood says Oryx and Crake isn't science fiction, she's just wrong. A book set in the somewhat distant future about the effects of genetic engineering run rampant clearly falls into ...

... has written in. What is written speaks for itself. The Sparrow is science fiction. Children of Men is science fiction. Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid's Tale are science fiction. Even is their authors think they are not.

19. Travels With Alice by Calvin Trillin. A fun read, although I think I like his political stuff better. 20. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I read this because it was so highly recommended by so many of you. I didn't care for it at the beginning, but as it went on, it ...

... reaching 75! All this Margaret Atwood talk reminds me that I still haven't got around to reading my copy of Orxy and Crake - must add that to my list for the year - although you're all making me want to re-read Handmaid's Tale instead (ronincats, thanks for the similar theme ...

... was instrumental in the founding of the Provincetown Players and won a Pulizer Prize for her play Alison's House. 5. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Not my favorite Atwood by far, but a very good read nonetheless. 6. Cimarron by Edna Ferber. Published in 1929. Edna ...

I love Atwood. You could try Cat's Eye which I thought was very good. Oryx and Crake was a bit of a slog for me but I second jfetting's recommendation for The Penelopiad - it was very good and part of a series of books by different authors based on various myths.

... view (and that of the hanged maids). It's wonderful. Let's see... The Blind Assassin is also really good. I also liked Oryx and Crake, but I think I'm in the minority on that (I like science. I like dystopian novels about the evils of cloning). Surfacing is beautiful but difficult. Grea ...

... is my problem too - I am not a big fan of the dystopian genre. Even Margaret Atwood (an author I typically love) even her Oryx and Crake was a dud for me. I haven't read 1984 yet so maybe I'll give that a try sometime soon. #77, 93 - I am so loving Tana French's novels. I daresy the ...

... others which haven't been mentioned: Children of Men by P.D.James Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood The Drought by J. G. Ballard All of these, I suppose, could be argued to be on the margins of what is science fiction, but I ...

... itself. In fact, I prefer it if the tech-talk took a backseat to the story. Some of my favourite sf novels include: Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid's Tale both by Margaret Atwood Any of the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks, especially The Player of Games and Inversions Air ...

5. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Not my favorite Atwood by far, but a very good read nonetheless. 6. Cimarron by Edna Ferber. Published in 1929. alcottacre in 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : AlcottAcre's 2009 Reads, Take 2 (Feb 3, 2009, 5:41am)

#69: Thanks for dropping by and coming out of lurkdom, seekingflight! Let me know what you think of Oryx and Crake once you have a chance to read it. It seems to be one of those you either hate it or love it type of books.

... roles and opportunities. The first, however, is fashioned predominantly by women, the second by men. I also have Oryx and Crake on my TBR list, and the positive comments have encouraged me to move it closer to the top.

... melange of languages (and their industry) were dying off ten years ago when I was last there. Random note about Oryx and Crake -- the intelligent parrot, "Alex," mentioned in the novel was indeed real and I "met" him while working at MIT.

... a dystopian world that resulted from extremism and hypocrisy. In that way, I think that its theme is somewhat similar to Oryx and Crake, although the two books are completely different.

... of The Things They Carried. I read about it on someone else's thread (Whisper's I think), and plan to read it too. Oryx and Crake goes on the TBR list as well! Thanks for updating your reading :)

... Atwood. I recently read Alias Grace which was just wonderful, and have read a few others. I agree with your comments on Oryx and Crake, and I am interested in the Percy Jackson books so I will try harder to keep up with all your reading this year!

... fit the bill; my girls had been urging me to read it because it was so funny, and they were right; recommended 49. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - this was the first Atwood book I ever read, but I do not think it will be the last; I really enjoyed this book and its similarity to ...

The one that stands out most in my mind as being (for me) unfinishable is Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, despite being absolutely my kind of thing!! For whatever reason, I have tried to read it 3 times now and have always ended up putting it down.

#60 stasia What did you think of Oryx and Crake? I absolutely could not get into it despite liking Atwood's other books, including her 'futuristic' The Handmaid's Tale and also books such as The Road etc. I tried to read it 3 times and all 3 times I only got about 100 pages in before ...

Having just finished Oryx and Crake, I am a little leery - I might end up worse than I am now!

... Games by Suzanne Collins 2. The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman 3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 4. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

... Haha, tomcatMurr, I love that quote about Atwood. I have read both of her "not sci-fi" books - The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake - but have failed to get into any of her other books that I've picked up. I'm still trying but maybe now I feel a little less guilty about not getting what ...

... Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri 01/16/09 017. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 01/17/09 018. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 01/18/09 019. A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne 01/18/09 020. Three Exemplary Novels by Miguel de Unamuno 01/19/09 FILM:

... which pushes it over the edge to science fiction for me, but I can condede that reasonable people could disagree. But Oryx and Crake? Could not be more clearly science fiction. >36 I do agree that Le Guin's stuff is definitely on the literature end of the spectrum. It's just a pet ...

017. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 01/17/09 018. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 01/18/09

... wonderful writer, but one things that does annoy me about her is her persistence in denying that The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake are science fiction, which they clearly are. To anyone who likes Ursula Le Guin, I'd also recommend the short fiction of James Tiptree, Jr aka Alice ...

#2 Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 374 pgs. I liked this book until the very last page. I am not certain if it is because I didn't feel like the ending had been resolved or if I just wanted more book. Throughout the book I couldn't wait to get to the end to find out why everything ...

... we are stipulating only that 'classics' be published prior to 1960, a very loose definition of classic to be sure. I have Oryx and Crake home from the library - I have never read anything by Atwood before and am anxious to see what I think of it. I am currently reading the first volume of a ...

Not sure if this one is considered "classic" or not. I am reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I am really enjoying it. I am anxious to learn what the disaster was. Hopefully the book will tell me.

i just found out about this website a few days ago and when i saw the 999 challenge i knew i had to be a part of it. i don't think the challenge is so much in reading the books as in narrowing it down to which books you will read! i'm having a hard time picking nine categories but figured i can ...

I have Oryx and Crake in my challenge as well and have even found a beautiful hardcover edition to read. When are you planning on reading it?

... by Anne Lamott Best "so popular I skipped reading these when they came out" aka shoulda read them sooner Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Best historical memoir Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie along with Margaret ...

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson which technically I'm not quite done with. Wow-- I could have listed another 5 ...

... Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen Deliverance by James Dickey Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Endless Love by Scott Spencer

... **My Review** 5 - The Road - Cormac McCarthy 6 - Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood **MyReview** 7 - V for Vendetta - Alan Moore 8 – ...

3X1 1. Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale {1/2}, Oryx and Crake {1/18}, The Penelopiad {1/26} 2. Roth: The Prague Orgy {1/9}, Portnoy's Complaint {1/27}, Goodbye, Columbus {2/24} 3. Hesse: Siddhartha {1/31}, The Glass Bead Game {3/11}, Narcissus and Goldmund {4/16} 4. Greene: ...

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - see this thread

Oryx and Crake -- very good (4 stars), thank you everybody who encouraged me to read it. It isn't my favorite Atwood (that is, so far, The Blind Assassin, but it was enjoyable).

Award Winners or Shortlisted for awards 1. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - 1/8/09 2. Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller 3. Atonement by Ian McEwan 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Thanks for that, polutropos. Alex is referenced repeatedly in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, and I was interested in reading more about him.

43. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry 44. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry 45. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 46. Dracula by Bram Stoker lenereadsnok in 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : lenereadsnok joins the challenge (Dec 16, 2008, 12:34am)

... read so far. 152, The story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski – 562p. Really liked it even the ending. 153. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood – 374 p. Excellent read, but I had to keep a dictionary handy.

Oryx and Crake it is! Final tally: Oryx and Crake = 1 + 1 + .5 + .5 + 1 + 1 + 1 + .25 = 6.25 The Famished Road = 1 + 1 + 1 -.5 + 1 + 1 = 4.5 Sharp Objects = 1 + 1 + 1 = 3 If Death Ever Slept = 1 + .5 + 1 = 2.5 Volpone = 1 + 1 + .5 = 2.5 Amongst Women = 1 = 1 Half Broken Things = 1 = 1 ...

I'm sticking by my Oryx and Crake nudge; however, if you enjoy the conventions of early 17th-century city comedies, Volpone is a hoot although Bartholomew Fair is my favorite of Jonson's city comedies. I love to imagine casting these plays with people I know who would be oh so appropriate ...

Well, I just got my copy of Oryx and Crake and it looks like nothing I'd pick up on my own! There are a lot of books showing up in my categories that I wouldn't have really considered without this planning of my year's reading.

I loved Oryx and Crake. I just read King Leopold's Ghost this year and it was amazing. Heartbreaking and upsetting, but still a great read about an area I am learning more and more about (The Congo). That and Blood River by Tim Butcher have really got me excited to read Heart of Darkne ...

Big nudge for Oryx and Crake - and (possibly controversially) a big DE-nudge for The Famished Road - I like magical realism, but I found this very tedious. Also a small de-nudge for A Crime In The Neighbourhood.

... read it yet. As for Atwood's own nomination and prize record (in case you're interested): 2003- shortlisted, Oryx and Crake 1996- winner, Alias Grace The more I look at the this awards winners, nominees, and ignored books, the stranger I think it is. Why do we as readers ...

Oryx and Crake!!!!

I'm nudging Oryx and Crake. As Rachael says, not my favourite Atwood, but I really enjoyed it nonetheless.

lene, Oryx and Crake is OK but a bit closer to sci-fi than most Atwood - more Handmaid's Tale than Robber Bride etc. I quite liked it, although found it very sad, but most of my friends really didn't. I read more sci-fi and fantasy as a rule than most of my friends, though, so maybe that ...

... you like my list and thank you for another recommendation of Cat's Eye now I really have to read it. I just requested Oryx and Crake from the library Any comments on that one? Anyone?

... perfectly evoked and the characterisation is strong. Very, very creepy, and the woman really can write. Half a nudge for Oryx and Crake. I liked it, but it's not my favourite Atwood.

... totally averse to magical realism; it is the story of a reincarnated spirit-child in rural Nigeria. Also genre-specific is Oryx and Crake. Good because Margaret Atwood always is but more typically science-fictiony than The Handmaid's Tale and not as good. I would be most interested in ...

I am going to nudge Oryx and Crake. I didn't think that I would like it but I did.

Oryx and Crake, not just because it's the only one I've read, but because it's very interesting (once you get into it a bit--it starts off sort of strangely).

... by Rebecca West They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood On the right: Volpone by Ben Jonson Constance Ring by

Oryx and Crake was so depressing! The Handmaid's Tale wasn't exactly a comedy, but there was hope. I'm glad I'm not the only one! :)

Don't feel bad - I couldn't get into Oryx and Crake either. I loved The Handmaid's Tale too, but something about Oryx was very unapproachable to me. Maybe it was the weird animal names. =)

I loved The Handmaid's Tale; I've read it several times. There was something about Oryx and Crake that turned me off to it and I can't really put my finger on it. I may revisit the book another time.

#88 Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood I really, really wanted to like this book. It's okay, but just okay.

132. Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood, 2003 Margaret Atwood has a very mordant sense of humour. I enjoyed this dystopia and found her style able to create a believable narrative. A cynical observation of our current lifestyle preoccupations and the social and political mores with which we live. ...

... Car to USA Something Rotten to Finland My Lover's Lover within UK The Pirate's Daughter within UK and Oryx and Crake to USA I thought I was doing well until I then went book shopping!!!!!!!

... short story "The Age of Lead" from Wilderness Tips is one of my favourite short stories and I re-read it often. I loved Oryx and Crake too though, and The Blind Assassin and The Robber Bride and The Handmaid's Tale. You can't go wrong with any of those books, even if they're re-reads. I ...

Thank you, Fasciknitting! So maybe Wilderness Tips or Oryx and Crake or Moral Disorder. I'm glad I have a few months to make these important decisions!

... s 6. Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright 7. The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart 8. Wilderness Tips orOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

... r. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde The Cryptographer by Tobias Hill Last Tango in Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce Mobius Dic ...

Some more! 45) Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood 46) Eats Shoots and Leaves Lynne Truss 47) Lark Rise to Candleford Flora Thompson 48) Like Ali Smith 49) Gone to Earth Mary Webb 50) Closing the Book Stevie Davies

Top five in the order read: Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelhlo Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Honorable mentions: The Places that Scare You ...

Oryx and Crake - off to North Carolina (BookMooch) The Robber Bride - off to San Diego (BookMooch) The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692 by Boyer and Nissanbaum - back to the library.

Fiction Fingersmith***** by Sarah Waters Oryx and Crake**** by Margaret Atwood Back Roads**** by Tawni O'Dell The Sister**** by Poppy Adams Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie Honorable mention mystery edition White Nights****1/2 by Ann Cleeves Jar City* ...

32. Oryx and Crake I thought I would love this book, since I loved Handmaid's Tale and I particularly enjoy dystopic novels. Alas, I had very mixed feeling on this book. The main character, Jimmy/Snowman, has dysfunctional relationships with almost everyone in the book, which always bums me ...

... k! The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde The Cryptographer by Tobias Hill Last Tango in Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce Mobius Dic ...

... geography, they center around the same fictional town in Maine. The title is taken from a Cotton Mather sermon. Rereads Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Satirical tale of a dystopia future. Poetry Incredible Good Fortune by Ursula le Guin Nonfiction Everyday Life in Early Americ ...

From today's library sale: *Very good trade paperback copy of Oryx and Crake *Good reading copy, mass market size of The Handmaid's Tale. Cover has a few creases as does the spine but the inside is clean and unmarked *Good+ copy, mass market size of The Robber Bride. Spine has some ...

... Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood The Giant O'Brien by Hilary Mantel Troll a Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo and non fiction Travels with Herodotus ...

... k. Shamefully I hadn't investigated SF by women writers until starting on Librarything! (unless The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake count - are these 'speculative fiction' works rather than 'science fiction'??) Since then I've tried and enjoyed Le Guin, Butler and L. Timmel Duchamp ...

Oryx and Crake for Au$7.

59. Oryx and Crake

6/8 Fiction by non-American authors: Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood

I recently reread Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake for a group read. It's an interesting book to read a second time. One is in a 'different place' during a reread. Not planning any rereads in the very near future - too many books out there (still, one never knows)

... century) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - loosely connected stories most around Olive, set in Maine. Rereads Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Satirical tale of a dystopia future. Poetry Incredible Good Fortune by Ursula le Guin I am also likely to add the books I'm ...

... It was a very, very nice day, organized by people who wanted me to feel special, and so I did. I just finished reading Oryx and Crake for my slightly creepy book-gifting guy whom I shall meet this coming Saturday. ~meh~ That was my opinion a while back, nothing has changed. The ...

>188 mckait, it was Oryx and Crake, and I think it's next week I'm supposed to go back and meet the guy. I admit, I am curious enough to want to see if he shows up. And I am not exactly going to offer a love-fest for the book. It's kinda, well, I guess if one doesn't read much in the genre it ...

... the mid-1980s. Very interesting coming on the heels of my reread of Atwood's satirical dystopia and post-apocalyptic novel Oryx and Crake.

... been writing for at least 25 years) - her first novel, The Edible Woman, was published in 1969. I personally really liked Oryx and Crake, and it has an average star rating on LT of 3.97. However, if you've never read any Atwood, I would also recommend starting with The Handmaid's Tale. I ...

... not reading Atwood. She's great! However, I have read almost all her major novels and the only one I did not enjoy was Oryx and Crake Too futuristic for my taste. My favorites are The Blind Assassin and Cat's Eye. #154 - I recently read A Suitable Boy and loved it. It goes faster ...

... obsessions and divagations. I hope that doesn't make it sound like work to read, because I really don't think it is! Oryx and Crake is giving me the heebies. I can't figure out if I have read this book before. AAAAARGH! It feels like I have but I can't get a handle on when or what it ...

richardderus I'm anxious to hear how you like Oryx and Crake. I had the opportunity last week to pick up a like new hard bound copy of it for 50 cents and passed it up because I have never read Atwood and had read a couple of negative comments about Oryx on LT. Tell me how much you love it ...

For all its slightly creepy means of getting into my home, I started Oryx and Crake and am getting a sense of deja vu all over again. I think I read this before. I can't remember, but that's not so unusual for me, since if I am not utterly enthralled by a book, I tend to let its details slip ...

... order I should read them in? richardderus - that's such a lovely thing to happen. I wish strangers would give me books! Oryx and Crake is great - I hope you enjoy it.

... People Who Never Lived crossed into my zone of influence this weekend. My former partner, The Divine Miss, gave it me. Oryx and Crake was gifted to me by some anonymous guy in the Buns and Nubile coffee shop. He said he never sees anyone reading that book, it's a favorite of his, and he ...

... here in the mountains of Montana may be contributing to the death toll of these storms..... (That's what I get for reading Oryx and Crake and Collapse in the same month)

... #10 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond This book in combination with Atwood's Oryx and Crake, which I read earlier this month, together paint a compelling and chilling future. Basically Diamond argues that our society sees the environmental, societal ...

... you take a minute to tell me a bit about your impressions? And, I'm heading to the library this afternoon to check out Oryx and Crake. I finished The Penelopiad a few weeks ago.

Hi avaland. You've just reminded me that Oryx and Crake is on my TBR pile - I'm starting to feel a little swamped by this pile! Hope you had a lovely time in Oz - it's a fantastic place (and I'm longing to go back). Have you read A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, or The True History ...

63. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood This is a satirical, post-apocalyptic and dystopian story that tells the story of Jimmy aka Snowmen and how the world as he knew it ended. This is my second reading of this terrific novel. Atwood is brilliant. The book will not be for everyone (I ...

Hi I recently finished Margaret Atwood's book The Penelopiad I'm curious to learn your thoughts on Oryx and Crake

(45) Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood (F)

... was delightful. I wanted to add that I loved Fall on Your Knees (read it twice) and The Blind Assassin, and enjoyed Oryx and Crake a great deal. I thought Unless was excellent, but had to stop reading because it upset me so much, as a mother and as a woman writer. Inheritance of Loss ...

... .php?nid=148&sid=4055540 I saw this newsstory about a man who killed himself on a webcam & immediately drew a parallel to Oryx and Crake.

>161 Grammath I have Oryx and Crake on my TBR. I understand it's a pretty bleak dystopia? What do you think of it?

... edited by Paul Auster The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

33) Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I love everything Atwood writes. This is amazing, like everything else. Highly recommended.

I just finished Oryx and Crake, so I thought I'd get started on these questions. 1. Oryx and Crake includes many details that seem futuristic, but are in fact already apparent in our world. What parallels were you able to draw between the items in the world of the novel and those in your ...

... a tough question! It depends what kind of books you like because her work is quite varied. I think I would recommend Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid's Tale. They're my favourites of her books that I've read. They're also the most science-fictionish of her work. I also liked The Blin ...

I am currently reading 2 books by women. One is Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood for the Atwoodians group read. Loving it so far & only have about 100 pages left. I am also reading Pornified by Pamela Paul. I am liking it, kind of, I just wish it weren't so anecdotal. It's not the most ...

... book so here it goes. I put off reading this book as I usually don't like science fiction and that was the description of Oryx and Crake that I heard. I recently reread The Handmaid's Tale and thought that it was an excellent book. I thought that it was chilling in that the attitudes of Atwoo ...

I am reading Oryx and Crake for the Atwoodians group read. About 40-pages in & really enjoying it so far. Also reading Pornified, a book about how pornography effects people. It's really pissing me off in a good way.

I finished 9. My top 3: Take This Bread by Sara Miles Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Honorable Mention: Case Histories by Kate Atkinson, Three Cups of Tea by Gregg Mortenson and The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabo ...

Another mailbox haul: The Hours by Michael Cunningham Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood The Talk of the Town by Ardal O'Hanlon I succumbed even though I promised I wouldn't any more as it was cheap and in the supermarket and Bones isn't back on the telly 'til the Autumn ... Bones ...

... book, with interesting protagonists - I found the relationship between Leo and his wife Raisa really fascinating. 132 is Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I didn't like this one as well as The Handmaid's Tale. I didn't get a feel for anyone but Snowman/Jimmy, and even he seemed just ...

41. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood A very different dystopian future than The Handmaid's Tale. In this version of the future, people are objectified and valued on the basis of making money for someone else. The most highly valued are the science and math types who, by researching ...

# 15 Oryx and Crake Since the book is still fresh, I thought I would jot down some of my impressions. This book is compelling, frightening. The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world that has been brought to its knees by greedy corporations hampering with nature in order to profit. I ...

... I got here The DHL man brought Coming Unglued by Rebeca Seitz Then the best mailman ever, Irving, came with Oryx and Crake and Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict from BookMooch, as well as My Name is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare and my July ER book, Sweetsmok ...

... Asian literature jag. The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter - I cannot resist anything Angela. Even multiple times around. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - same as Carter above, the Atwoodians group is reading this for our summer group read, so I'm rereading it. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabe ...

... hip than their ideal candidate. Oh, well. I, too, am a Kate Atkinson fan. I also loved The Secret Life of Bees and Oryx and Crake. I've never read Ballad of the Sad Cafe but just finished The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and was blown away by it. These postings have given me lots of ...

Just started Oryx and Crake on audiobook. Also currently reading: Travels with Charley True Tales of American Life Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident

Started Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood today. My only previous exposure to her work was an audiobook of early novel Bodily Harm, which I was quite underwhelmed by. On the evidence of the first half disc of this, it is much more up my street.

... know it's a bit early (and I haven't even reread it yet!), but I thought I'd post the book discussion questions I found for Oryx and Crake, to get the brain motors started before we start the discussions. Questions from the Publisher's Reader's Guide: 1. Oryx and Crake includes many details ...

63. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I think that Margaret Atwood is a superb storyteller. This book is an excellent saga that gives us the world after an apocalypse. The story of Snowman ( the narrator) and Oryx and Crake is as engrossing as The Handmaid's Tale. I think that this book ...

I am at the beginning of Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Every time I read one of her books, I realize how good of a storyteller she is! I also have The Book of Negroes on my next to read pile.

... St. Petersburg, 1913 with Stephen Miller's Field of Mars. I am also going into the future with Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake.

Just finished A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo and am starting Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and Field of Mars by Stephen Miller.

I'll be out of the country most of August, would someone remember to start the discussion of Oryx and Crake the first week of August? I'll post if I can when I'm away, if not, when I return (I'm taking the book with me to reread on one plane or another).

Reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood right now. Very interesting, and heavily reminiscent of The Handmaid's Tale by her.

#142--The reader is part of my problem with the audio of Oryx and Crake, nancyewhite. I thought I had purchased the Campbell Scott version, but it's someone else, and his voice is really annoying me. I've emailed Audible.com to see if they can switch it for me.

... I'm not sure I'd have finished it if I weren't on vacation. Since I've decided to join the August Atwoodian discussion on Oryx and Crake, I finished that as well. I'm currently in the middle of Losing Battles by Eudora Welty -- it's about a family reunion at the 92nd birthday of Granny - ...

... I don't think we can afford to ignore any of these problems, yet that is exactly what I see my neighbors doing. Vis a vis Orxy and Crake, I didn't find the "new humans" horribly depressing. At the end, one did see signs they were "evolving" and developing free will (whatever that is). In The ...

Urania and nohrt4me -- you might be interested to know that the Atwoodians group has chosed Oryx and Crake for a group read and discussion in August.

... to read Atwood's poetry volume The Journals of Susanna Moodie. I think the Atwoodian group here on LT is planning an Oryx and Crake group read starting the first part of August. I thought I'd join them so I have been holding off reading that until then.

I've noticed people in this group do not have half-hearted responses to Oryx and Crake. I'm curious and would like to have a more in depth conversation about the book with those who have read it. So potential spoilers may apply on this thread. I thought this was one of Atwood's better works. I ...

... web. What did you think? I'm currently reading Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels. So far so good. For the record, Oryx and Crake was my first Margaret Atwood. I read it shortly after it was released (read: hardcover, big bucks) and liked it a lot. Made my hubby read it, and he also ...

... work -- they're good, but not up to Bel Canto. #128, mrstreme, and #130 cabegley, I'm one of those who didn't like Oryx and Crake, even though I generally really like Margaret Atwood.

I wonder how the audio experience enhances (or doesn't enhance) Oryx and Crake. I will be curious to read what you think, cabegley!

I'll second the positive recommendation for Oryx and Crake.

>131 cabegley - Keep going with Oryx and Crake - I personally thought it was great.

I finished Oryx and Crake and found it thought provoking, witty, sad and intense. Unlike mrstreme, I did attach to Snowman particularly when I found out he was the word-guy in a world where only science was valued. I thought she did a fantastic job of making a world both familiar and sinister.

... margin-right:10px;" src="http://www.librarything.com//picsizes/bc/1a/3c51be276876853b4d9b2f3640c67d81.jpg"> 45. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood A devastating coming of age story where the sins of the past ruin a person and a planet. Very intense and scary as well as witty and ...

... as was the creepy effect she built up around the young boy. Recommended with reservations. mrstreme, I just started Oryx and Crake on audio--now I'm worried.

I finished Oryx and Crake. To be blunt, I thought this book was dull. Atwood is such a brilliant writer, but this book did nothing for me. I prefer books where I get some attachment to the characters, but that didn't happen for me with this book. mrstreme in 50 Book Challenge : mrstreme's 50+ books in 2008 (Jul 17, 2008, 7:29pm)

48) Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (review)

... left of Canada (or North America or the world). I am quite terrified as I accompany Snowman inland to look for supplies in Oryx and Crake.

... I like the book much more. I was particularly taken with Amelia Land. I think I'll read more by her though. I began Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood last night, and I have a feeling it's going to knock me off my feet (as Handmaid's Tale did).

mrstreme, I am heading on a long trip on Wednesday and intend to get through Oryx, this will be my third try, but I am counting on a 6 hour plane ride to help...unless I have an incredibly interesting seat-mate.

I finished Alias Grace and now on to my next Atwood book: Oryx and Crake.

... that hearing it on audiobook really helped. Atwood has a truly unique approach to character development. I did not enjoy Oryx and Crake but I think I might give it another go, because I don't remember why I didn't like it. I have purchased several of her books lately, and look forward to ...

... qualify for this group read with 'Orange'. I'm starting with Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. Then I hope to fit in Oryx and Crake, Prep or Digging to America before the end of the month.

... Surfacing was a very powerful book. The only Margaret Atwood books I'd read before it were The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake, so Surfacing was a big surprise. At the moment, my 1001 book is Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow. Starting it today!

Just thought I'd mention that the Atwoodians group is having a group read of Oryx and Crake in August.

I really liked Oryx and Crake, but most of my friends don't, because of the sci-fi quality. I adored The Blind Assassin -- best read of the year so far. I liked The Lovely Bones, but would not consider it directly spiritual, based on my reading. I don't know what your criteria are for this ...

>28 LizT - Oryx and Crake is another excellent Atwood selection that was on the list one year.

... So count me in! I ordered a bunch from the library, including Half of a Yellow Sun, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Oryx and Crake, and A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. I don't know which one I'll read first, but I kind of like knowing that I have all these books coming ...

... of 2008. Highly recommended. This is my first non-dystopian Atwood novel, having previously read Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake. I tried to read The Blind Assassin when it came out, but it came due at the library before I had a chance to really get into it. Anyway, my point is that I ...

I've just got started with Oryx and Crake and it is definitely intriguing me. I've probably read half a dozen or so other Atwood's before now, but I think this is the first with a male protagonist - quite a change!

Trhough Bookmooch there was waiting for me after my holiday: Jennifer Government by Max Barry Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 2001: a space odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke and Beyond the blue event horizon by Frederik Pohl

... more-because of all the art in Cat's Eye, I always want to read Nick Bantock, especially The Museum at Purgatory. Oryx and Crake has me hankering for Brave New World and Jennifer Government. The only other (contemporary) author I've ever come across that I think even romotely ...

... more-because of all the art in Cat's Eye, I always want to read Nick Bantock, especially The Museum at Purgatory. Oryx and Crake has me hankering for Brave New World and Jennifer Government. The only other (contemporary) author I've ever come across that I think even romotely ...

Read Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Loved it. Now reading Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy. IMO she is a wonderful storyteller. #114 Looks like an interesting read yareader2.

36. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - brilliant dystopian novel.

On another note, I just finished Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, thoughts pending. FIRST THOUGHTS: i loved the story, and atwood's storytelling is suspenseful and poetically elegant, but crake and jimmy (as opposed to snowman) seemed too predictable and one-dimensional in their arguments. "nu ...

... well either; obviously not her best! The Secret Life of Bees -- enjoyed it The Lovely Bones -- a disturbing read Oryx and Crake -- thought-provoking The Time Traveller's Wife -- loved loved loved it I've also tried to read Fugitive Pieces, The Underpainter, The Blind Assassi ...

... -- read it and loved it, thanks to an LT recommendation Purple Hibiscus -- very good but what cabegley says in #64 Oryx and Crake -- not one of my favorites of Margaret Atwood's The Great Fire -- loved it; Shirley Hazzard is one of my favorite authors Bel Canto -- to my ...

... somewhat boring book I'm currently reading. Alias Grace looks great, and it's also on the 1001 list. Another good one is Oryx and Crake. I think there's a group read about to start on this one over at the Margaret Atwood group. I'm not participating because I read it about three years ago, ...

... Others 5. Sure of You 6. Bones to Ashes 7. Oryx and Crake 8. Number the Stars

Summer group read for the Atwoodians group is Oryx and Crake, discussion begins around August.

For those who might be interested, The Atwoodians group will be following up their reading of The Handmaid's Tale with Oryx and Crake for a summer group read. Discussion will begin in August.

Oryx and Crake seems to be the choice for a group read this summer. Discussion will begin August 1st or thereabouts.

I wouldn't mind reading Oryx and Crake.

... of her books very much -- The Edible Woman and The Blind Assassin especially. Other times, I can't stand them -- like Oryx and Crake. I'm about to start Moral Disorder. Love her, or hate her, I feel drawn to read just about everything she writes.

I have Oryx and Crake now and will probably be reading it soon anyway!

... Moon by Elizabeth Cox 17. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 18. Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley 19. Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood 20. Demonata 3 - Slawter by Darren Shan 21. Happy Endings by Jim Norton 22. Duma Key by Stephen King 23. 28 Days Later by S ...

Thus far, Oryx and Crake seems to be edging out in front of the others with Surfacing, Alias Grace and Robber Bride following. We'll see what happens in the next week or so (seems by that time most people who regularly or semi-regularly check on activity in this group would have been here ...

... was a teenager, but stopped reading her for a long time after university - I have a long gap between The Robber Bride and Oryx and Crake (although after Oryx I went back and read the intervening two). So I'd be most interested in the earlier stuff - especially The Edible Woman, Lady Oracle, ...

... showed me Atwood at what I think is her strongest, when she's describing what's happening in a normal, every-day life. Oryx and Crake-This was the other side of the dystopia coin for me, opposite HT. I majored in biology as an undergrad, so I loved the biotech aspects, too.

This is selfish of me, but I have Oryx and Crake on my TBR list, so I would love to read that. I am just getting into Atwood, so if I have time, I would probably be up for anything, as its all new to me. I'm also trying to read more short fiction, so I think it might be fun to do one of those ...

I would either like to read Oryx and Crake, The Edible Woman or The Robber Bride. But I can buy any others we pick!

... Tale (1985) DONE! Cat's Eye (1988) The Robber Bride (1993) Alias Grace (1996) The Blind Assassin (2000) Oryx and Crake (2003) The Penelopiad (2005) SHORT FICTION COLLECTIONS Dancing Girls (1977) Murder in the Dark (1983) Bluebeard's Egg (1983) Through the On ...

... on it I think "Meh, average at best." 2.5/5 Bel Canto--This one had an interesting premise and was quite well done. 4/5 Oryx and Crake--thought this was great . . . not so much when I read it, but it has really stuck with me and I look back on it from time to time. I also gave this to my ...

... T Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus - shortlist Monica Ali, Brick Lane Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake - shortlist Rupa Bajwa, The Sari Shop Stevie Davies, Kith & Kin Stella Duffy, State of Happiness Maggie Gee, The Flood ...

... with its depiction of the cruelty of teen-age girls, and I've read everything she's published since with the exception of Oryx and Crake, which I somehow missed. I've taught both Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace in my Contemporary Lit course.

13. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - just finished listening to this audiobook, narrated by the actor Campbell Scott. Very wild story - twisted and strange. I did like how Atwood tied a lot of the pieces together in the last few chapters, though she then ends it with a suspenseful moment, ...

... and breaks into her kid's house just to cuddle with him while he's asleep. SO, I guess the tag would be Overbearing parent Oryx and Crake: Virus, dystopia, rape (OK, I know the rape isn't really mentioned and described, but even the aside stuck with me through the whole book) Yellow Wallpaper ...

... words and word play, and how Lewis Carroll's bizarre poems must have influenced Dr. Seuss. I am currently listening to Oryx and Crake, and have a couple other audiobooks loaded on my MP3 player, and I'll need to pack a few "real" books as well. I'm flying to Providence tomorrow to visit ...

... G. FROM MY SISTER 1. Jesus Land, Julia Scheeres (overlap) 2. Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson (overlap) 3. Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood 4. The Girl Who Played Go, Shan Sa 5. Diary of a Djinn, Gini Alhadeff 6. From A Sealed Room, Rachel Kadish, (overlap ...

I might be able to join you although I'm a bit overextended with theme reads and project work I have to do (not to mention some delicious-looking books which have arrived recently). I have determined to back off some of it in May so I can concentrate but one never knows. mark me down as a ...

... include: The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I'd be particularly interested in doing the first three, since I have them all in hand right now. I'd also be up for reading A Cloc ...

I just finished A Pair of Blue Eyes by Hardy and now I'm reading Oryx and Crake by Atwood.

If it is...I'll guess Oryx and Crake

36. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood A very enjoyable read. This is a story about science gone mad and perhaps a warning for us all about "tinkering" with genes and changing nature.

... themes and styles, so her books are quite varied. Besides The Handmaid's Tale, one of my favorite of her books is Oryx and Crake.

... which one. It will depend on my mood. The View from Castle Rock Saturday On Chesil Beach The Golden Notebook Oryx and Crake The Possibility of an Island

Several people have mentioned Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and I would agree, but I think Oryx and Crake was even more disturbing, possibly the most disturbing book I have ever read.

... dystopian work is among my favorites. You'll definatly like Handmaid's Tale. For a fun little mind-trip, try reading Oryx and Crake afterwords. It's Atwood's other dystopia, written a decade after the first. My mom and I swap books all the time-so much, in fact, that we have shelves ...

... Island by M.E. Atkinson 36.Edward I by Michael Prestwich 37.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 38.Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 39.Ten Boys who Changed the World by Irene Howat 40.Knights of the Grail by Linda Proud 41.V for Schweik; Ten Storie ...

I listened to Oryx and Crake on audiobook, and really enjoyed it, but I could definitely see how it would be tough to read. I ADORED The Blind Assassin which made me get Oryx...Assassin is such a unique premise. I'd love to know if anybody else enjoyed it as much. Again, I did listen to it, and ...

... the second hand bookshop this weekend. Some of them I have already read, like Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood but there were a lot of others which looked really interesting. My list keeps growing and growing...feel free to add to it.

... novels like Surfacing or Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood. However, he really liked The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake, also by Atwood. I'm not sure if this says something about men and women, or just about DH and me. Part of it is quite stereotypical, but it does seem as ...

... to have had to read her in high school. For some reason her books never made my to-read list until my book club read Oryx and Crake. I liked it right from the first page, and haven't looked back. Eventually I would like to read all her books.

... years passed, and I tried The Handmaid's Tale, but gave it up -- so distressing, scary even. Some more years, and I read Oryx and Crake. I really liked it. Then Alias Grace. Marvelous! Now The Blind Assassin. Amazing! I love this writer! Why did it take me so long to realize it? I ...

... you read Alias Grace and dislike the writing, you probably won't love it as much as I do...I'm an Atwood nut), Oryx and Crake, Jennifer Government, and Brave New World. Yes, I read 1984, too, but by that time, the plot was so well-known to me, it wasn't as interesting as the ...

... - alternate reality/time travel) - 04/26/2008 (5) We - Yevgeny Zamyatin (F - dystopia/allegory) - 05/22/2008 (6) Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood (F) - 08/24/2008 (7) The Difference Engine – William Gibson & Bruce Sterling (F) (8) The Sleeper Awakes – H.G. Wel ...

... same author. I quickly opted for Atwood, but I'm torn on what to do. I've read The Edible Woman, The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and am currently reading The Blind Assassin I'd be interested in exploring a parallel character or a contrast to Ainsley from The Edible Woman. Can ...

... my map, and got really confused. Where a writer is from and what he or she writes about rarely match. Margaret Atwood wrote Oryx and Crake, but the book doesn't represent Canada or Canadian literature. Where does Out of Africa fit in? Isak Dinesen was definitely Danish, but her book says ...

... from the Underbelly by Risa Green 8 Atwood Books Alias Grace The Blind Assassin Cat's Eye Edible Woman Oryx and Crake The Penelopiad Surfacing The Door 8 Written Before 1950 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Persuasion by Jane Austen The Awakening by K ...

My list(s)- Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark The Madness of a Seduced Woman by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood The Prestige by Christopher Priest Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie honorable mentions - Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlm ...

A +1 from me for Earth Abides by George R. Stewart Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

I bought Oryx and Crake. I am reading The Handmaid's Tale & am so in love with it & broken hearted over it, that I just had to grab something else by Atwood.

I would recommend either Oryx and Crake or The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. If many in your group have read A Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake would be an ideal choice.

>56: TeacherDad If you're looking for a cheerful read I wouldn't suggest Oryx and Crake. >77: studio1 I loved High Fidelity too, but I hated How to be good. I've really enjoyed a lot of Nick Hornby's books and am still a big fan, but I couldn't stand that book. I just finished L ...

I would second a listing from way back in the list Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood had an atmosphere that left me disturbed for days. How about World War Z by Max Brooks? The style of the book made a riveting read about a virus that turns people into a familiar cliche...but how do ...

... of Lost Things, but since it's going to make me cry I'll find something more cheerful... how about Snicket's The End and Oryx and Crake? Also need to finish The Giver tonite, have a feeling that's not going to turn out pretty...

... and can be as thoughtful and profound as any ‘literary’ work. This has been picked up on by ‘serious’ authors and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood is a good example of a self-consciously literary writer borrowing from science fiction to create a work which examines contemporary ...

And the list goes on... Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood The Correspondence by Evelin Sullivan All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg The Lighthouse Keeper by James Michael Pratt The Medici Dagger by Cameron West Fractured English by Richard Lederer Seven Gothic T ...

... me Death of an Expert Witness Murder Being Once Done 1 for 1 at BookMooch: The Sleeping Doll PaperbackSwap: Oryx and Crake

... post-apocalyptic novels: Life as we knew it by Susan Beth Pfeiffer The world without us by Alan Weisman Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood On the Beach by Nevil Shute Earth Abides by George R Stewart City of Emb ...

I thought something similar when I read Oryx and Crake - if you compare it to something like A Handmaid's Tale, it's no longer about women being oppressed in the future, but about the whole of humanity.

Out of the 22 books read, these were the standouts - Oryx and Crake a dystopian, speculative-fiction novel by Margaret Atwood Drop City a clash of cultures turning out to be closer than they thought novel by T.C. Boyle Grotesque a character study of modern Japanese women by Natsuo ...

... H.G. Wells We by Yevgeny Zamyatin A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Giver by Lois Lowry Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood The Children of Men by P.D. James (I still haven't seen the movie, so its all new to me) Lord of the Flies by William Goldi ...

... teenagers are still usually bored. Also, it seems like in a lot of dystopic works (I'm thinking of Fahrenheit 451 and Oryx and Crake, among others), there's a pattern where the male protagonist meets a girl who seems to be free from the society that limits him. He's intrigued but doesn't ...

... Nix and all the other days of the week... Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore - at least, I hope not!

It's August now, but while in July I finished The Devil of Nanking by Mo Hayder, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I was pleasently surprised by the Atwood book. I didn't like her very much back when I was younger. Maybe it's time to re-read some of her work. I read some Klosterman ...

... the late 80s and early 90s, probably 'ruining' Atwood for them forever! Will someone out there tell me why I should give Oryx and Crake another go? I haven't been able to get past the first few pages. I read The Handmaid's Tale when I was pregant and THAT was a big mistake! I could never ...

#18: I've got Oryx and Crake on my TBR pile. I've seen the film of V for Vendetta but have not read the graphic novel yet.

Another Margaret Atwood dystopian future is Oryx and Crake. And there's always V for Vendetta by Alan Moore.

Margaret Atwood's Book Oryx and Crake reminded me a lot of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Science fiction type novels are not my thing but I can see that at the time Brave New World was written it had the ability to stir things up where as by the time Oryx and Crake came out I was all to ...

... a good read. I think it was published with a different name in the US. (edited to add - I found it, Drowning Towers) Oryx and Crake is probably the most disturbing book I've ever read in this genre.

I'm starting again for 2008. I don't want to start a new thread all for myself, so I'll edit this one and reuse it. I enjoyed having the record last year of my year in books. My goal again this year - 100 substantial books. I am not recording ephemeral chick lit that I forget before I put the ...

Finished the audio version of Oryx and Crake - phenomenal novel, loved it, and started the audio version of Drop City.

... after Robert Fulford? I gave away that book so I can't go back and check.I have always like her novels but haven't got to Oryx and Crake yet

Generally, I like Margaret Atwood and did enjoy The Penelopiad. I was less impressed, though with Oryx and Crake. But I do read all her novels. I passed on the recent short story collection -- did you read it?

... fave but others lesser favorites are: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and I second Canticle for Leibowitz. The recent The Pesthouse by Jim Crace and The Road ...

#137;138 -- Oryx and Crake was one of those books that I really wanted to like because I love the author -- but I just could NOT get into it. Maybe it is the satirical doomsday type genre that I didn't like. I fear I may be having a similar issue with Possession by A.S. Byatt -- I felt ...

... wisdom. Several bits even had me laughing out loud. I'm looking forward to reading more Terry Pratchett! 19. Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood Another fascinating novel by Margaret Atwood! Aside from the misspelling of Filipina -- Philippina -- and the stereotypical role ...

I finished Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake last night, and I'm starting Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust today. =)

... Blaze by Richard Bachman (SK really) The Good Mother by Sue Miller Death on the Downs by Simon Brett Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood as audio download Drop City by T.C. Boyle as audio download and One Across, Two Down by Ruth Rendell

... leave without something. My husband gave me a $100 gift certificate and today was the last of it. Already. Today I got Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Everyman by Philip Roth, and Time's Arrow by Martin Amis.

Couples by John Updike Oscar and Lucinda Arthur and George Oryx and Crake The Professor and the Madman

Oh, just one thing I'm not happy about with Oryx and Crake is the stereotype of a Filipina domestic worker and the misspelling of Philippina.

I'm glad I decided to visit the group page. I'm currently reading Oryx and Crake, and I'm loving it so far. I was engaged from the moment I started! I'm constantly amazed how easily I get into Atwood's books. This is actually my take-out book (to read when I am out, waiting or at a café), ...

I just finished Terry Pratchett's Witches Abroad last Wednesday, and I'm going to start on Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake for my takeout reading next.

I'm reading Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake next for my take-out book.

Yes, it was my first time reading Oryx and Crake and I really enjoyed it. However, I did find it quite disturbing as I didn't feel it was a view of the future one could simply dismiss out of hand. 5. The Island I have mixed feelings about this book. I enjoyed the story but felt it was ...

>111 bookaholicgirl I hope you enjoy All Over but the Shoutin I loved it. I just finished Oryx and Crake, my first, but definitely not last, Maragret Atwood. I'm not reading The Book Thief, which immediately sucked me in. I also just started Life of Pi which has been on my TBR ...

Oh, I picked up Oryx and Crake yesterday in the middle of moving because it looked good. I am in the middle of something else, but I think I will be re-reading that one next. It's been long enough since I read it last that I don't really remember it. Of course, I have a ton of books that I ...

2. The Tenderness of Wolves 3. The Triple Point of Water 4. Oryx and Crake

... it. This week I read Plainsong, which I thought it was good, but not my favorite. I's about half way through oryx and crake and am excited to see where it's headed. I'm also reading Jack & Jill for something a little lighter. James Patterson's Cross books are always a fast ...

from oryx and crake: "I could perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbalbe tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you." Gulliver's Travels

I read Oryx and Crake for a book group read. I've never been drawn to dystopian literature and so this was a stretch for me - but I loved how Atwood wove the story and pulled me into caring about her characters. I realized I was reading a brilliant writer whose skill exceeded genre...and now I'd ...

I'm new here - and a relatively new fan of Atwoods. I read Oryx and Crake last year (my first Atwood novel!) and loved it. This weekend I finished Alias Grace - astounding! The Handmaid's Tale is on my stack TBR in June. I love how Atwood weaves a story; and her use of symbolism is ...

... of technology and science...still they are often meant to be thought-provoking. Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale or Oryx and Crake, Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, and Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451. There are many thoughtful novels which focus a bit more ...

... never returned it :). It is still one of my favorite books and I always suggested to friends. I even got a friend to read Oryx and Crake recently. She loved it so I think we've got another fan!!

... Roshwald "Logan's Run" by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Malevil by Robert Merle Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood "Pebble in the Sky" by Isaac Asimov. (A later book, Robots and Empire, gave a different explanation) "Pulling Through" ...

I have Oryx and Crake in my never ending "to be read" stack. This post makes me want to move the book to the top of the pile!

... Atwood novels considered dystopian (sometimes considered SF because they are set in the future) are Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake, although there is the fantasy story at the center of the story within a story narrative in The Blind Assassin. Her use of a dystopian future as setting, ...

#57 and #58 - I have Oryx and Crake in my mountainous "to be read" stack. I keep getting books from the library and I'm not making a dent in that stack. I have enjoyed the other Atwood books that I have read.

I finished reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and was basically sucked into that bok within the first page. It was bone chillingly frightening, eery and heartbreaking. I could not wait to find out the ending and at felt really let down by the ending - but upon reflection I can see ...

I have only read one book by Margaret Atwood so far, which is Oryx and Crake. I have had The Blind Assassin on my bookcase for around a year but sadly I have yet to even open it. I have heard many great things about it though.

... A Sudden Wild Magic, which is the only one I currently own. I great enjoy Atwood and am thinking of picking up Oryx and Crake sometime this year. Of the Munro I've read, my favorite was Open Secrets, but I've enjoyed them all tremendously. Runaway is on my TBR list for ...

SimonW11: Another writer who is completely dismissive of SF is Margaret Atwood. Yet, The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake and even parts of The Blind Assassin are SF. This rejection is what led me to find out the "why" of that.

... but then I don't care for utopian books, either, so it's probably just the genre. That being said, Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake were just not my cup of tea. Although I enjoyed pondering the philosophical questions they posed ... but would probably not recommend them without a caveat. ...

... read Handmaid's Tale and, though I liked the ideas, I found it slow going. I feel like I should read more Atwood, and Oryx and Crake and The Penelopiad do sound really interesting, but I keep putting her to the back of my TBR pile.

... would likely be fairly inaccessible reads. My first Atwood read was the Blind Assassin which I loved! Then I read Oryx and Crake which I found to be a bit SF but fascinating. Then I read the Handmaid's Tale. I do find her books have this apocolyptic theme running through them, and ...

... O'Leary Silk Code by Paul Levinson Queen City Jazz, Kathleen Goonan To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood Lives of Monster Dogs Kirsten Bakis Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson Although I've read my share of Benford's, Egan's, Sawyer' ...

... one of her books that made me laugh. I find her latest books are deteriorating, and I'm offended by her anti-SF attitude. Oryx and Crake is definitely SF but she adamantly states it's not. This is the snobbish side of Canadian literature writers we're seeing here. Same as The Handmaid's Ta ...

... favorite is Cat's Eye. It taught me something about being a creative person that changed my life. I've also read, Oryx and Crake, (most recently) and Handmaid's Tale, but in all truth, I didn't care very much for them.

I second Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and would also suggest her book The Handmaid's Tale, which is arguably more dystopic than apocalyptic. Similar in some ways to The Giver by Lois Lowry - the repressed society, specific people performing specific tasks, the dangers of non-conformity ...

... and went on to read everything by MA I could get my hands on. I have to admit, it took several tries before I got into Oryx and Crake, but once I did I started seeing it as a movie!

These aren't YA books, but they fall into the category. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I've read the first, but not the second, which is just out on hardback. All of the reviews say it's very affecting, though it sounded a bit grim to me. Atw ...

... I do prefer the funny, satirical ones like the Robber Bride over the darker dystopias like the Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake.

... her dystopia fiction. I particularly liked The Robber bride and Cat's eye and The Blind assassin, but I don't enjoy Oryx and Crake much.

I think a good case in point would be Margaret Atwood. She writes Oryx and Crake but refuses to call it science fiction. There's absolutely no confusion about the book's category/genre, it has many obvious science fiction elements anyone that read it would call it sci-fi, but I'm sure some ...

If you enjoy this type of book, you should definitely read (if you haven't already!) Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Very interesting take on how society as we know it could disappear (inspired by reality) and how one person deals with the aftermath.

I forgot Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Man, I love this Web site! In three hours I can accumulate a reading list guaranteed to keep me depressed for the next two months!

... style="float:left; padding-right:6px;"> Just completed Oryx and Crake - well-written and enjoyable but not gripping. Moved on to The Shangri-La Diet - can sugar water help you lose weight? and Broken, the latest in Kelley ...

... the paradox of choice -- still excellent and goes on the 'read-again' list (but that never happens), and started Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - a slow start but beginning to get a grip on me a few chapters in. Bob