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Originally Posted by lithe
^^ i read Microserfs a few days ago, and started off super into it, but wasn't overly impressed when i finished. are all couplands so anticlimatic? i haven't read any in years. i don't think i'm nearly post-post-modern enough, i keep on expecting stuff to HAPPEN. monster's ball was quite a disappointment. :|
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I'm mixed about coupland - I think he gets off on himself a bit too much. Gen X is kind of fun, but my favorite is for sure Life After God - maybe just because its so bitter sweet and about growing up... well, actually about growing up in vancouver. Great read.
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Originally Posted by lithe
re: Oryx & Crake, i read that book yesterday, and was quite impressed, especially considering it's a *cringe* Atwood, but did anyone else feel like they were missing something when they came to the end? not so much about what snowman would do, but rather what were crake's motives?
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I think the idea is that you are never really supposed to know. Though, I assume it has to do with Crake's total disgust with what has become of humanity. Technology, science, and proft rule in that world, to the point where our increasing rationality has become totally irrational. Crake's solution is to eliminate the human race and replace it with his own children who are 'perfect' - lacking all of our flaws. Of course, Crake is also pretty fucking crazy too. So in a sense, I guess Crake himself represents the totality of irrational scientific rationality.
Jan 11, 05
