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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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bookshelves: non-ya, literary-fiction, 3-and-a-half-stars, dystopian, sci-fi, reviewed, project-review-everything, recommend
Jun 29, 2015
bookshelves: non-ya, literary-fiction, 3-and-a-half-stars, dystopian, sci-fi, reviewed, project-review-everything, recommend
the worst thing that can happen to you is liking a book fine, then letting years pass, then remembering there are sequels.
what do i do here?! do i drop everything and restart? do i keep ignoring it and pretend nothing happened? am i physically capable of leaving a series unfinished?
help.
part of a series i'm doing in which i review books i read a long time ago, but it's more of a cry for help usually. of the literal and the figurative varieties
what do i do here?! do i drop everything and restart? do i keep ignoring it and pretend nothing happened? am i physically capable of leaving a series unfinished?
help.
part of a series i'm doing in which i review books i read a long time ago, but it's more of a cry for help usually. of the literal and the figurative varieties
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Sep 20, 2017 08:47AM
I'm actually surprised you had to read it for school. God am I that old? Haha. I freaking LOVED this book. I love any book that has new mixed breed animals, completely new organisms, new mixed "creatures,"etc. I have the sequels but I have so many books I want to read and if I read them I'll have to read oryx and crake for a third time bc I haven't since 2012 lol. I was looking through your books to see. If you had read it bc I was going to recommend it. Speaking of books read in school, in my junior year of HS in AP English, I had to read a book called The Things They Carried... and it was incredible. I believe it was a memoir from the Korean(?) war... but the way it was written was brilliant and I hate most non/fiction books; especially about war (because one of the major reasons I read is to delve into a world so unlike this one that I truly escape it for the time I am lost in the world within the pages), but it seemed almost fiction, for the alluring way the author writes. If you haven't read, you absolutely should, like, now! It's a pretty quick, quick, but amazing, read. :)
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Ashley wrote: "I'm actually surprised you had to read it for school. God am I that old? Haha. I freaking LOVED this book. I love any book that has new mixed breed animals, completely new organisms, new mixed "cre..."i had to read The Things They Carried for school too! i loved it a lot. honestly i just don't love dystopian that much but this was definitely a good example of the genre
i can’t believe i read this freshman year
I have been in this same dilemma with this same book for years.So far ignoring it has been my personal choice. Excited to see if you take a braver route!
It's probably good to refamiliarize yourself with the first. It's definitely best to completely ignore the last.
i think i'm going to go with ignoring altogether!
