Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Atwood is best known for her The Handmaid's Tale, and this first book in the MadAddam trilogy, also deals with a post-apocalyptic scenario. Only this time science has prevailed (horrifically). It is full of corporate greed, economic stratification, scientific manipulations of everything from food to butterflies, and humanity's basest thoughts and actions proliferate unchecked. It is full of cynicism, yet Atwood's observations, as usual, are unnervingly on point. It is enough to depress you, and yet her bumbling, pathetic main character squeezes enough sympathy out of the reader to keep you interested to see what happens next.
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On having children:
"...human beings hope they can stick their souls into someone else, some new version of themselves, and live forever."
"As a species we're doomed by hope, then?"
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