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I've wandered off from this thread since the institution of MR's audiobook ghetto, but I'm working my way slowly through After the Flood by Margaret Atwood. An interesting feature of the audiobook is that the sermons and hymns of the future green cult are rendered as such: the sermons are delivered by a separate narrator and the hymns are recorded as musical tracks. The characters seem a bit more human than in Oryx and Crake, and the world more lived-in and less satirical (though obviously, still quite satirical). Maybe there's an element of Atwood being better at female characters than male characters, the focal characters in After the Flood being female, whereas Jimmy and Crake in the first book were the boysiest boys ever, ending the whole world with their horseplay.
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