brave new world and other futuristic type books

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Three words

Oryx and Crake.



Read it if you like these types of books... its amazing.

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Originally Posted by Junglist

has anyone mentioned Farenheit 451?

yeah, it's pretty good.

i like ray bradbury.

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you'll all be happy to know that i purchased "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood yesterday and will be reading it after i finish the Don DeLillo book i'm currently reading.

thanks for all the suggestions! i'm going to pick up that one that ebbo recommended as well.

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BNW and Oryx and Crake are seriously among my favourite books of all time.

BNW - “I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin” (best line eevvverrr)

the struggle to find meaning to life in a secularized landscape is rivetting.

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Postmodernists make me retch almost. Atwood most of all.

"Margaret Atwood.... she's only famous....
Cuz you read about her in school."

I've heard Oryx and Crake is good, but I heard the same thing about Robber Bride and that book made me throw it across the room at a couple of points.

If I do read it I'll have a notepad and I'll count whenever she uses those $5 words like "quixotic".

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i hate/loathe/despise atwood as a poet... and love her as a novelist. i don't think she's nearly as overwritten as some popularly acclaimed authors, the most glaring of which i see as dan brown (the davinci code). seriously, read O&C. i'm not saying it's a particularly groundbreaking work of fiction, but it's one of those novels that can be read on a multitude of levels depending on what the reader expects/wants to get out of it - social commentary on the trainwreck of science-cum-religion, or entertaining post-apocalyptic mystery.

and i think she could be classified as post-post-modern. ;)

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^^ So what you're saying is it has a social subtext?

Boy, she's never done that before.

(Sorry. I already tried two books of hers and reading her turns me into a bitter angry person who apparently writes really good essays.)

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what i'm saying is that in this particular piece the social commentary isn't so overwrought that it takes over the story. :p

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just started reading Oryx and Crake this morning and so far i'm really diggin it. i've never read an Atwood book before so i can't really get into this discussion with you guys.

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i just finished A Handmaid's Tale (the?) by her, and, again, less than impressed. sigh.

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i heard that one was pretty good. it'll probably be the next Atwood book i read after i finish Oryx and Crake (if i end up liking it).

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well, i just finished up Oryx and Crake. i really really liked it. definitly has some weight considering the genetically engineered stuff we have going on today. i feel like it took a long time to get to the climax and then the book just ended very abruptly, however. i would have liked more on Crake's paradice plan and such.