And I can’t wait to see where she takes it in the rest of the trilogy. The point is, Atwood has done something exceedingly clever in these pages. If I’m being a little bit cryptic here, it’s because I don’t want to land a massive spoiler in your lap. I’m currently reading the book for a second time, and I can see all the early warning signs of what’s to come. I was sure something big was coming, but I wasn’t expecting something quite as radical as what we got. And what they discover together drives Crake onto a very dark and dangerous road.īut why? What’s Crake’s endgame? I couldn’t have guessed until the end. His personality is overshadowed by that of his more intelligent friend’s. His best friend, Jimmy, is led along due to his loneliness and curiosity. He watches such sick things in order to understand humanity in all its dark and gruesome facets. One of the boys (Crake) is phased by nothing he is cold, calculating and utterly detached from the passions most people experience. Oryx and Crake is an exceptionally weird novel that left me baffled, stunned and even disgusted however, as time went on, it developed into one of the cleverest pieces of fiction I have ever read.īehind the child pornography, ritualistic killings and animal abuse two young teens relished watching in their spare time on the internet, resided a dormant drive to understanding the excesses of human behaviour in order to dominate it.
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