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Laddar... Syndaflodens år (2009)av Margaret Atwood
  
Best Dystopias (29) » 42 till Top Five Books of 2013 (148) Books Read in 2013 (39) Five star books (121) Female Author (199) A Novel Cure (180) Favourite Books (1,124) Female Protagonist (420) 2000s decade (67) Books Read in 2009 (179) SantaThing 2014 Gifts (223) Read in 2015 (3) infjsarah's wishlist (58) Books I read in 2014 (11) SHOULD Read Books! (222) Floods (1) Phoebe Bridgers (11) Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Likt en förtätad amerikansk TV-serie serveras vi denna apokalyptiska historia, berättad av några osannolika överlevare. Medan föregångaren "Oryx & Crake" beskrev samma händelseutveckling på ett subtilt och tankeväckande sätt, förvandlas "Syndaflodens år" efterhand till en banal thriller. Naturligtvis kan man imponeras av somliga detaljer, t ex gestaltningen av karaktärernas inre. Periodvis är det också mycket spännande. Det sämsta är dock själva historien som hela tiden försöker dra nytta av sin föregångares mystik, utan att lägga till något nytt bränsle. Men, kanske finns här en ekologisk tanke, att återanvända material som redan skapats. Atwood balanserar övertydligt mellan sin ekologiska mission och försöket att skriva en bestseller. Jag önskar henne all lycka med det förstnämnda men fruktar det sistnämnda. (  )1   JackOrion | Oct 19, 2010 | 
 Om Margaret Atwoods ”Syndaflodens år” kommer att räknas till de stora framtidsskildringarna går inte att säga ännu, men potentialen finns. In Hieronymus Bosch–like detail, Atwood renders this civilization and these two lives within it with tenderness and insight, a healthy dread, and a guarded humor. "The Year of the Flood" is a slap-happy romp through the end times. Stuffed with cornball hymns, genetic mutations worthy of Thomas Pynchon (such as the rakuunk, a combined skunk and raccoon) and a pharmaceutical company run amok, it reads like dystopia verging on satire. She may be imagining a world in flames, but she's doing it with a dark cackle.  Personally, though, I prefer Atwood in a retro mood. I’d easily take “Alias Grace” or “The Blind Assassin” over the lucid nightmares of “The Handmaid’s Tale” or “Oryx and Crake.” But fans of those novels should grab a biohazard suit, crawl into a hermetically sealed fallout shelter, and dive right in. Canada's greatest living novelist undoubtedly knows how to tell a gripping story, as fans of "The Blind Assassin" and "The Handmaid's Tale" already know. But here there's a serious message, too: Look at what we're doing right now to our world, to nature, to ourselves. If this goes on . . . PriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
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HTML:The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners??a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life??has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible.Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers . . .Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away . . .By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inve Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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