The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)

Posted on 21 May 2017 by Margaret Atwood

The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability Adam One, the kindly leader of the God s Gardeners a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life Two women have survived Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God s Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible Have others survived Ren s bioartist friend Amanda Zeb, her eco fighter stepfather Her onetime lover, Jimmy Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual elimination Painball prison Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powersMeanwhile, gene spliced life forms are proliferating the lion lamb blends, the Mo hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue As Adam One and his intrepid hemp clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move They can t stay locked awayBy turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive. Free Download The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) By Margaret Atwood For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I m really tempted to take a cheap shot at Margaret Atwood and call her the George Lucas of literature since I was very disappointed in this follow up to Oryx Crake.She built an intriguing world in OC where corporations ruled and profited through genetic engineering and gene splicing animals in a way that would give Dr Moreau some ethical concerns And she tied that to the devastating story of how it ended along with the tale of Jimmy Snowman , his mad scientist friend Crake, and th I m really tempted to take a cheap shot at Margaret Atwood and call her the George Lucas of literature since I was very disappointed in this follow up to Oryx Crake.She built an intriguing world in OC where corporations ruled and profited through genetic engineering and gene splicing animals in a way that would give Dr Moreau some ethical concerns And she tied that to the devastating story of how it ended along with the tale of Jimmy Snowman , his mad scientist friend Crake, and the woman they both loved, Oryx.The Year of the Flood ...update YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ ORYX AND CRAKE FIRST The Year of the Flood is not a sequel even though goodreads lists it as Maddadam trilogy 2 It slike a completely different story about the same event There is hardly any character crossover and absolutely zero information in Oryx and Crake that you need to love enjoy understand The Year of the Flood.I love that this story just dumps me off in the future Lots of things aren t explained It s written as if I already know what a vi update YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ ORYX AND CRAKE FIRST The Year of the Flood is not a sequel even though goodreads lists it as Maddadam trilogy 2 It slike a completely different story about the same event There is hardly any character crossover and absolutely zero info...Throughout my adult life, every time I ve set to fretting about something, if I have ever been composed of the proper combination of melancholy, apathy, and bitters to warrant the interest of my hovering mother, in a state of exasperation she always runs a line on me about perspective, about humbling myself by pondering the countless masses of people in the world who have it so much worse than me that I should always feel grateful, and that thinking otherwise is simply being small minded and se Throughout my adult life, every time I ve set to fretting about something, if I have ever been composed of the proper combination of melancholy, apathy, and bitters to warrant the interest of my hovering mother, in a state of exasperation she always runs a line on me about perspective, about humbling myself by pondering the countless masses of people in the world who have it so much worse than me that I should always feel grateful, and that thinking otherwise is simply being small minded and self obsessed Though I agree with her in spirit, I am prone to try and win an argument for the sake of it bad...The Year of the Flood is a sequel to her 2003 book Oryx and Crake Those characters arrive here in the back quarter of the book They are both set in a post apocalyptic western nation, and explore the implications of many contemporary trends Although I share Atwood s concern about most of the problem sources she identifies, the book did at times feel a bit like a laundry list of the sins of the 20th and 21st centuries Of course, some of the dynamics she portrays are eternal, battles for power The Year of the Flood is a sequel to her 2003 book Oryx and Crake Those characters arrive here in the back quarter of the book They are both set in a post apocalyptic western nation, and explore the implications of many contemporary trends Although I share Atwood s concern about most of the problem sources she identifies, the book did at times feel a bit like a laundry list of the sins of the 20th and 21st centuries Of course, some of the dynamics she portrays are eternal, battles for power, desires for fulfillment, personal searches for meaning Atwood works multiple time lines, from year 1 to year 25 of the waterless flood, a never fully explained disaster that may be the result of viral infection caused by side effects of genetic engineering One can figure it out, but look to Oryx and Crake for further understanding I felt that the amount of time dedicated to her characters ...I deleted my review from 6 years ago because I don t think I understood half of what was being spoken about and just got washed away by public consensus on the book I still think it is great, but I am sure I understand it better now and notice some glaring faults with it As a sequel to Oryx and Crake, I remember subtle references tying it to the earlier story Now I feel like there is nothing subtle about these references, they are so glaringly obvious, for example not only Ren but Amanda too I deleted my review from 6 years ago because I don t think I understood half of what was being spoken about and just got washed away by public consensus on the book I still think it is great, but I am sure I understand it better now and notice some glaring faults with it As a sequel to Oryx and Crake, I remember subtle references tying it to the earlier story Now I feel like there is nothing subtle about these references, they are so glaringly obvious, for example not only Ren but Amanda too dates Jimmy at some point in her life One still doesn t get a clearer picture of what led Glen to his apocalyptic conclusions, was there an influence of gardener ideology or just individual agenda, and what was Jimmy s designated role in all of this If we look at the plethora of new characters as cameras giving us a different angle view of an event from the last book, then I wonder why the book chooses to show us the same scenes instead of delving into all the aspects Jimmy ...Glenn Crake used to say the reason you can t really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, I ll be dead, you ve said the word I, and so you re still alive inside the sentence And that s how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul it was a consequence of grammar And so was God, because as soon as there s a past tense, there has to be a past before the past, and you keep going back in time until you get to I don t know and that s what God is Animals have evap Glenn Crake used to say the reason yo...Would have been such a sin if the setting for Oryx Crake had been wasted So much imagination went into that particular novel that all stories parallel to Snowman s should have the equal right to be told.In O C, the two strands of plot which interweave involve Jimmy Snowman There was an obvious difference between the Snowman put in charge of Crake s children Jimmy from the past, the na ve friend of Crake, lover of Oryx In the second helping of the MaddAddam trilogy the sam Would have been such a sin if the setting for Oryx Crake had been wasted So much imagination went into that particular novel that all stories parallel to Snowman s should have the equal right to be told.In O C, the two strands of plot which interweave involve Jimmy Snowman There was an obvious difference between the Snowman put in charge of Crake s children Jimmy from the past, the na ve friend of Crake, lover of Oryx In the second helping of the MaddAddam trilogy the same two plot braid is undertaken by its creator, the inexhaustibly amazing Margaret Atwood Two parallel stories, one of Ren in first person, the other of Toby in third, are...This was my first experience of Margaret Atwood and I m afraid I don t really get what all the fuss is about Perhaps this is her worst novel The first two hundred pages, relentless exposition bereft of dramatic tension, bored me It s one of those novels that plays catch up starts at year twenty five, then goes back to year zero and works its way forward The two narrators, a kind of everygirl and everywoman, are members of a new age travellers cult, but essentially struck me as hackneyed so This was my first experience of Margaret Atwood and I m afraid I don t really get what all the fuss is about Perhaps this is her worst novel The first two hundred pages, relentless exposition bereft of dramatic tension, bored me It s one of those novels that plays catch up starts at year twenty five, then goes back to year zero and works its way forward The two narrators, a kind of everygirl and everywoman, are members of a new age travellers cult, but essentially struck me as hackneyed soap opera characters They experience a typical concatenation of female experience, most notably disappointment in love and abuse at the hands of male vanity and privilege But Atwood had no revelations to pass on, nothing interesting to tell me about these experiences Not once, until the final hundred pages, did I find myself looking forward to what might happen next Not once was I able to empathise with her characters except i...Profoundly brilliant Had I not read this directly after reading Oryx and Crake, I would have missed so many things little nuances, passing comments made by the characters it just enriched the earlier story and brought so much depth, context, and elegance Like looking at the Rubin s vase optical illusion and only seeing it one way for so long, and then someone points out the other image right before your eyes Of course, it was Ms Atwood herself who constructed the image and slowly sheds Profoundly brilliant Had I not read this directly after reading Oryx and Crake, I would have miss...Nowhere near as good as Oryx Crake, sadly But the women characters Toby Ren Amanda Pilar I really don t think this is as much a retelling of OC as everyone says it is it sa shadow cast, a mirror, a reflection in water Female heroes instead of men the people on the ground, in the street, instead of locked up safe in Paradice childhood as home, sex as trade The back of the tapestry Loved loved loved all the details about the Gardeners, Adam One after a while, and even Nowhere near as good as Oryx Crake, sadly But the women characters Toby Ren Amanda Pilar I really don t think this is as much a retelling of OC as everyone says it is it sa shadow cast, a mirror, a reflection in water Female heroes instead of men the people on the ground, in the street, instead ...

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21 May 2017

Margaret Atwood