Maddaddam
drolafson says:
It is impossible to be disappointed by Margaret except that her books do end. The MaddaddaM series is a saterical look at our immediate future.The comedy of children given too much power and the spiraling firework of the reality spawed from that dynamic until it all goes poof.But humans, being humans, learn less and persevere more because of course.... we are the show and it must go on.No one can explain why though.Well, maybe Margaret.....
sweta says:
It's not a bad book at all if ...it's the third in a series of 4 or 5, but as a summation of a trilogy, Atwood answered the wrong questions (as I see it) set up in the first two novels. The question I had after the first was 'Why?' and after the second, 'How?' At no point in the first two did I ask, 'Hey, what's up with the back story on that Zeb character, huh?'This is why I avoid series fiction. I think we're making a balaclava with these threads; the author thinks we're making a sweater with matching mittens and a little woolen wallet that you'll thank her for as politely as can be but then hide away in a hutch drawer somewhere never to be seen again. Who even uses a knitted wallet?! Well, maybe if it were felted after - that could be alright... probably still too thick, though... Wait, is this why we call stories 'yarns'?Also, no more dystopic lit for me; I'm starting to lose hope for the future.But I love Margaret Atwood - beautiful writing, tremendous imagination. Probably spot-on on a future that we should all have started preparing for long ago. Off to get some canned goods and a crank radio.MoreLess
It is impossible to be disappointed by Margaret except that her books do end. The MaddaddaM series is a saterical look at our immediate future.The comedy of children given too much power and the spiraling firework of the reality spawed from that dynamic until it all goes poof.But humans, being humans, learn less and persevere more because of course.... we are the show and it must go on.No one can explain why though.Well, maybe Margaret.....
sweta says:
It's not a bad book at all if ...it's the third in a series of 4 or 5, but as a summation of a trilogy, Atwood answered the wrong questions (as I see it) set up in the first two novels. The question I had after the first was 'Why?' and after the second, 'How?' At no point in the first two did I ask, 'Hey, what's up with the back story on that Zeb character, huh?'This is why I avoid series fiction. I think we're making a balaclava with these threads; the author thinks we're making a sweater with matching mittens and a little woolen wallet that you'll thank her for as politely as can be but then hide away in a hutch drawer somewhere never to be seen again. Who even uses a knitted wallet?! Well, maybe if it were felted after - that could be alright... probably still too thick, though... Wait, is this why we call stories 'yarns'?Also, no more dystopic lit for me; I'm starting to lose hope for the future.But I love Margaret Atwood - beautiful writing, tremendous imagination. Probably spot-on on a future that we should all have started preparing for long ago. Off to get some canned goods and a crank radio.MoreLess
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