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Originally Posted by rlparker
Does The Year of the Flood only make sense if you've read Oryx and Crake first?
I haven't ever read any of Atwood's books--is there a better place to start than either of these two?
Thanks!
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Originally Posted by rlparker
Uh oh, is that "Literary" with a capital-L?  Scary! 
But the Kindle price is right, so I might give 'er a try. Thanks for the recommendation! |
I've read a bit of Atwood myself, and I would rate
Oryx and Crake and
The Handmaid's Tale as the best introductions to Atwood. As "literature" (as I empathetically gather from what you say, and your emoticons), they are, to me, along the lines of readability as
1984 or
Brave New World (I don't mean in theme...more just that which you, me, or marketers, might call "literary science/speculative fiction". No snobbery intended, just striving for adequate descriptors that might illuminate the style).
I've not read
The Year Of The Flood yet, but I have read some of her others. The others I've read (eg.
Cat's Eye) tend towards what you might find in the Literature section of your average marketer-driven bookshop. If that's not your thing at the moment, I probably wouldn't start there. You may end up there though, if you read, for instance, the (IMO) very good
Oryx and Crake, because she is, indeed, quite a (again, IMO) fabulous writer.
Cheers,
Marc