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Anyone read this book?

I read it a few years ago and absolutely loved it. I read the sequel, Year of the Flood as well, and while I enjoyed reading it, I kind of thought it somewhat ruined the first. By going further into the post-plague world and showing more and more survivors and expanding on the ambiguous ending which I really enjoyed .

I just secured another copy of Oryx and am about to begin rereading.

What were your thoughts on the book, if any of you have read it.

>> No.1864708

I thought it was dumb that everyone just happens to know everyone else

>> No.1864710

>>1864704
SUNNY READ THIS BITCH 50 TIMESSSSSSSSS

YES!!!!!!

>> No.1864712

I enjoyed both. Now reading her other 30 books.

>> No.1864716

>>1864712
I TOLD YOU DOG!
I WARNED YOU ABOUT THE CRAKE!

>> No.1864733

>>1864708
Yeah...it seemed kind of...forced. Almost like fanfiction. Really amazing fanfiction, but fanfiction nonetheless.

I think Snowman and Crake are some of the most fascinating characters I've ever read.

Poor, poor Jimmy.... :(

>> No.1864739

yeah, in the first one it was like everyone fucking died, and then in the second the central friends and people they knew all seem to survive, in a very fortunate series of coincidence

>> No.1864743

>>1864739
*central character's friends

>> No.1864747

>>1864710
>>1864716

W00fy, stop being mean. Just because Margaret Atwood is my special friend...and isn't yours. Don't be butthurt.

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>>1864747
>SUNY CALLS ME BUTTSMARTED
>SUNNY FINALLY EXHIBITS SOME PERSONIALITY.

I DID IT! I DID WHAT ALL OF /LIT/ COULD NEVER DO!

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>>1864774
>>1864774

>> No.1864800

ew. shes canadian.

fuck this

>> No.1864812

>>1864785

MIIIIIISSSSSED EEEEEWWWWWEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

>> No.1864938

I read this book for university and at the time didn't think much of it. Then I ran into /lit/ and progressively began to hate it more and more due to the unwarrented praise given.

Cliffhanger ending, predictable plot action, irrelevant sideshows about various moral crusades which add nothing to the plot, one-dimensional skeleton characters, and no real reason to read the book at all. There are many rich sci-fi books on the market you can read if you choose to disregard pretentions of things being "literary", which seems to be the only reason Oryx/Crake got attention in the first place

>> No.1865000

>>1864938
I love a lot of sci-fi, but Oryx & Crake is great too.

Moral Crusades? Skeleton characters?

Bitches be trippin'

>> No.1865366

>>1864739
Given that the central character made the virus and vaccinated his friends I don't see how that's a coincidence...