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| Title | : | MaddAddam (MaddAddam #3) |
| Author | : | Margaret Atwood |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deckle Edge |
| Pages | : | Pages: 394 pages |
| Published | : | September 3rd 2013 by Nan A. Talese (first published August 29th 2013) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic |
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A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers – a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the Gods Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with street-smart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The Crakers’ reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is hallucinating; Amanda is in shock from a Painballer attack; and Ivory Bill yearns for the provocative Swift Fox, who is flirting with Zeb. Meanwhile, giant Pigoons and malevolent Painballers threaten to attack. Told with wit, dizzying imagination, and dark humour, Booker Prize-winning Margaret Atwood’s unpredictable, chilling and hilarious MaddAddam takes us further into a challenging dystopian world and holds up a skewed mirror to our own possible future.Describe Books Conducive To MaddAddam (MaddAddam #3)
| Original Title: | MaddAddam |
| ISBN: | 0385528787 (ISBN13: 9780385528788) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | MaddAddam #3 |
| Characters: | Toby, Ren, Crake, Zeb |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2014), Orion Book Award for Fiction (2014), Tähtivaeltaja Award (2016), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2014), Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction (2013) |
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before reading: May I tell you about my borderline-psychotic quest to score an advance proof of this book?It involved contacting literally every single person on GR who had reviewed this pre-publication, in order to prostrate myself and beg them to loan me their copy. Of those who dignified my crazy request with a response, a few had been given advance editions on the promise of never sharing them, and the rest had read it in e-galleys, which fuck that. And anyway, those like disappear as soon"There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too."Preach, Mother Atwood. This past week has had me reimmersed into the MaddAddam trilogy, starting with a fifth re-read of Oryx and Crake since we discussed it for an SFF Audio podcast. (That was a great discussion, by the way. It answered some questions that I've had for years. Years!)When you read all the books of
Ok, MaddAddam! Let me say straight away that I don't like sequels that much. But then again, I didn't like dystopian fiction at all before I read "Oryx and Crake" some 10 years ago. After "The Year of the Flood" came out 4 years ago, I found myself unable to wait for the paperback version, and I didn't even consider waiting when "MaddAddam" was announced.I don't know what I expected and I think I should probably re-read the first two books to grasp all ideas in MaddAddam, but my instant feeling
I seem to be in the minority here, but I...very much did not love this. I mean, a disappointing Margaret Atwood book is still better than most other things published, but this was not at all the conclusion to the series I was hoping for.(view spoiler)[I just can't wrap my head around why she chose to go in this direction. Nothing really happened in this book, and the nothing all led up to a conclusion that seemed totally pointless, especially in the grand scheme of things. Arguably, nothing
Yeah, that was also fantastic. I cried buckets at the end. Jesus.O&C is the male story -- all sex and longing, invention and death (look, I'm just telling you what I see). Flood is like the women's side -- lots more better women characters, but also lots of sexual violence. Friendship, salvation, vulnerability, hedgewitchery.(And lots of hot pink. Trust me, it works.)But MaddAddam is more like -- the male story again, but the woman observing and commenting on it, and it's entwined with her
At first, I was disappointed. Where were the epic final confrontations? Where was the catharsis, after two novels of terrifying, complex build-up? A third of the way through, it hit me: none of that actually matters to the novel. The entire "final battle" is almost an afterthought, compared to the main themes of hope rising from the ashes, the power of love & loyalty, and the fact that human civilization adapts...spitting proudly in the eye of dystopia. This is a story about "telling" the
I wholeheartedly agree with Karens comment that starts I disagree that Toby turns out like a Stepford wife. Toby always had sentimental and emotional
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