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The Year of the Flood The Maddaddam Trilogy: Book 2 9.2/10. But it's a different book, with the lead characters now female, and the madness more social than internal. It's more like a completely different story about the same event. In the futuristic year Twenty-Five, the world is run by corporations; genetic experiments include splicing animals like lions and lambs; and the environment is increasingly a wasteland. The last scene begins to imagine how this might be. It is in essence the natural progression of a commercialist society where morality has vanished and consumerism is valued above everything else. Same disaster. That is why the hymns of the Gardeners, which are printed about every third chapter along with sermon-meditations, may be read as kindly spoofs of hippy mysticism, green fervour, and religious naivety, and at the same time can be taken quite seriously. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Great dystopian sequel that shows the world and certain characters from a different angle, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 July 2014. Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features. Atwood is masterful, can anyone doubt her gift? This was my first experience of Margaret Atwood and I’m afraid I don’t really get what all the fuss is about. They work towards protecting mother earth in all her glory by minimising humanity’s impact on it. It’s one of those novels that plays catch up – starts at year twenty-five, then goes back to year zero and works its way forward. Amanda! They are not entirely bigoted, and their leaders are far cleverer than they initially appear. We may, of course, in any one example, get the reverse of what we expect. They have invented their own rituals and saints, as other revolutionaries have done: Witness the French revolutionary calendar and the Positivist saints' days. They are also anomalies, since the Gardeners distrust writing: "Beware of Words. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. ), and always retort with something along the lines of "yes, let us follow that logic to its conclusion: there is only one, most saddest little person who has it the worst of all in the whole wide world throughout all of time, and only he or she is deserving of coming face-to-face with his or her reality, and finding it regrettable and sadness-worthy." This story seems to describe the social chaos that provided the context for the pandemic. There are currently no reader reviews for this book. Who knew that it would take a pandemic to get me to finally pick it up? 10. This is a re-seeing, another side of the same story, with people we thought we knew now re-assessed. It’s one of those novels that plays catch up – starts at year twenty-five, then goes back to year zero and works its way forward. And, unlike the harsh scientific solution to world’s problems she delivers in Oryx and Crake, the ideas she discusses here are more compassionate. 7 It's like you watch the movie with many disturbing details with your friend, but he's already seen it for a couple of times, so he's not cringing unlike you are and he's encouraging you not to close your eyes, because otherwise you'l. I didn’t think it was possible to get better than the first book in this series but this book absolutely blew the first one out of the water! A companion novel to "Oryx and Crake", "The Year of the Flood" goes back to characters we have met before - and redraws them. Start by marking “The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Throughout my adult life, every time I've set to fretting about something, if I have ever been composed of the proper combination of melancholy, apathy, and bitters to warrant the interest of my hovering mother, in a state of exasperation she always runs a line on me about perspective, about humbling myself by pondering the countless masses of people in the world who have it so much worse than me; that I should always feel grateful, and that thinking otherwise is simply being small-minded and self-obsessed. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I remember loving 'Oryx and Crake' for the weirdness and confronting character of the story, but I actually liked this one a bit better, contrary to other reviewers. Welcome back. I feel obliged to respect her wish, although it forces me, too, into a false position. She doesn't want the literary bigots to shove her into the literary ghetto. ", Atwood delights in these jarring incongruities: Writing is dangerous, open to treachery, perhaps irresponsible, even factitious. Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. Perhaps …', Due to technical reasons, we have temporarily removed commenting from our articles. The Year of the Flood is not a sequel even though goodreads lists it as Maddadam trilogy #2. Yet such loyalties spring up, like the shoots of March. T o my mind, The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake and now The Year of the Flood all exemplify one of the things science fiction does, which is to … Yet writing communicates, tells more to more people than the select few of close community in oral culture. Adam One is their leader who wants to organise the Gardeners to be completely at one with nature. One still doesn't get a clearer picture of what led Glen to his apocalyptic conclusions, was there an influence of gardener ideology or just individual agenda, and what was Jimmy's designated role in all of this. Ren! The rhyming means much. Some of the characters are seen and talked about by different people. Too much time is spent spewing the virtues and morals of 'The Gardeners' and not enough time is spent describing the wider world and society that I so would have loved to hear about.

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