Margaret Atwood
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| ISBN: | 0345808754 (ISBN13: 9780345808752) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | MaddAddam #1-3 |
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From Booker Prize–winner and #1 national bestseller Margaret Atwood, The MaddAddam Trilogy is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it.This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. With breathtaking command of her brilliantly conceived material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, she projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter.
In the tradition of The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood envision a near future that is both beyond our imagining and all too familiar: a world devastated by uncontrolled genetic engineering and a widespread plague, with only a few remaining humans fighting for survival.
Combining adventure, humour, romance and superb storytelling that is at once dazzlingly inventive and grounded in a recognizable world, MaddAddam is a moving and dramatic conclusion to this internationally celebrated dystopian trilogy.
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| Title | : | The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood / MaddAddam (MaddAddam #1-3) |
| Author | : | Margaret Atwood |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1181 pages |
| Published | : | August 27th 2013 by Vintage Canada |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Speculative Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy. Fantasy |
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I keep on having conversations with Margaret Atwood in my head. I would love to ask her why she made everyones parents so shitty? Of all the characters whove had their backstories told, everyone except Toby and Amanda had parents who were not only distant, they were straight up uncaring, hateful, and even murderous. This sometimes made it feel that Atwood was describing caricatures rather than actual people who could exist. However, someone whos perhaps had a less happy childhood might say thatMargaret Atwood is one of my favourite writers and is also the champion of writing about dystopian futures. Oryx and Crake was my favourite of this trilogy, maybe because the story was new and exciting? I love that her dystopias feel so close to what could happen in reality; they're horrifying because they ring so true. One of my favourite things about this trilogy is that the way it's set up almost feels more like fantasy with supernatural elements, but as the books unfold we become more
Really enjoyed the whole trilogy - but this was probably my least favourite. Quite tempted to go back and read Oryx and Crake again just to see what I missed the first time and spot all the links now that I've read the two simultanials!
I liked these books more and more as the series went on. MaddAddam was definitely my favorite. For a post apocalyptic series I sure laughed a lot, although I shivered too at the familiarity of it all. The colors were stunning and saturated. I hope there's a really well done movie(s) of this series. I loved the gentle mockery of religious environmentalism and Atwoods' concept of the "perfect" human attributes. The predictions in this series are earily close to home.
I have read all off these books before immediately after publication, but I thought it was high time to revisit this trilogy and read them through again. I absolutely love Margaret Atwood's work, and Oryx and Crake (the first in the trilogy) is just fantastic. It's a really compelling read told from the point of view of Snowman (Jimmy) as he relates his history growing up in 'the compounds' with his genetic engineer father and his mother who gradually becomes more disenfranchised from the whole
Absolutely bloody brilliant and terrifying.
I devoured the first book, I liked the second book and I wanted the third book to be over and done with (but then in the end, I felt sad, when it was finallly over).I am still hoping, that all the attention Atwood works gets at the moment (Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace having been made into series) leads to some sort of HBO-type-adaptation of this trilogy. If so, I would like Jim Carrey for Snowman-the-Jimmy, please.
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