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I recently read Oryx and Crake, and I'm still not sure how I felt about it. On the one hand, Atwood has really great style, and the book was often fairly funny; but on the other hand, it sometimes felt like a bog-standard apocalypse/post-apocalypse story.
The best way I can explain it is when you read a genre book by an author that usually does literary fiction; it sometimes feels touristy, like the author has only absorbed the most superficial memes and tropes of the genre, and is parroting those back. In any event, I've had a hardcover version of the second book in the trilogy for awhile and will probably crack that soon.
Interestingly, there was a ballet version of Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale being performed not that long ago. I think I'll wait for the upbeat, musical version.
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