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Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood
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Just got done reading Oryx and Crake last night and I can't recommend it enough. I don't choose my own books anymore - I've developed a rapport with a guy who works at the Shakespeare and Co. bookstore near me and I let him pick what I'm going to read next. He hasn't steered me wrong yet.

Last time I walked in there he handed me this book, Oryx and Crake. He's a huge Philip K. Dick fan, and after reading Oryx and Crake I can see why he enjoyed it so much - Dick would have loved this novel. It's a cautionary tale, a Brave New World-esque warning of a world that could be, of paths we're already walking down, of science gone wild in the name of vanity and immortality.

This is my #1 book recommendation of 2007 thus far.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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Noted.

Duly, of course.


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Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.  For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire.  Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it.

~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

:heartpump:

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Re: Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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i thought it was pretty good, and way better than the handmaidens tale, that is a bit more famous of a book by her.

my +1 story - i met her at the gothenburg book fair a few years ago, and listened to this lecture she gave, mostly about insects and the prospects of a post-apocalyptic world. she really came across as a D&D nerd combined with a newagey/mayan calendar nerd and a little hint of small town canadian thrown in :grin: nice woman, tho


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Re: Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood [Re: Krishna]
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Krishna said:
i thought it was pretty good, and way better than the handmaidens tale, that is a bit more famous of a book by her.


Everyone tells me to read that one, and also "The Assassin" I think another one of hers is called...she's quite prolific. I've never read anything else by her.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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i've only ever read oryx and crake & a handmaiden's tale.

had never even heard of her until i saw her speak; then read those two novels within a few months afterwards, and haven't heard much about her for a good couple of years now. not sure if she is still writing/coming out with anything new?


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Re: Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood [Re: Krishna]
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man, fuck being tired and trying to read posts.  This post was right underneath the oxy and crack thread so i read it as "oxy and crack, a novel by margaret atwood". 

Boy was i disappointed when i clicked on the thread.... :wink: :P


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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe. And I think every human being should be a conscious tool of the universe. . . .

-JG

i really am glad you came back to us instead of taking the other path. *hug*

-A_S (RIP your final words to me will never be forgotten)



Don't fuck with the laughing jesus.

Edited by coda (04/13/07 09:06 AM)

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Re: Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood [Re: Krishna]
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Oryx and Crake :thumbup:


I think she still puts out short stories all the time for fiction anthologies.


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"And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything."

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Re: Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood [Re: DirtMcgirt]
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I just bought J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island and a collection of H.P. Lovecraft stories to follow it up with.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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Atwood to Ballard? You'll go insane reading all that crazy stuff

pulled this ballard off of wiki:

"Each one of us is as old as the entire biological kingdom, and our bloodstreams are tributaries of the great sea of its total memory."


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"And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything."

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Re: Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood [Re: DirtMcgirt]
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I think he likes all that NewAgeyNeo-Pyschedelic stuff.

It just makes me want to read an instruction manual, or something. Just to get something factual and sensical into my brain to balance things out...


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.  In the law courts, in business, in government.  There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.    -Cormac MacCarthy

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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Re: Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood [Re: Madtowntripper]
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I balance it out with the consumption of outrageous amounts of baseball statistics.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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I'll probably pick this book up.

I dont think we have anything near the same taste in literature, but I'm always open to good suggestions.


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.  In the law courts, in business, in government.  There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.    -Cormac MacCarthy

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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Re: Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood [Re: Madtowntripper]
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I would just like to add that this is very strange, with a thread named "Oxy and Crack--Two Novel Compounds" on the second page of the pub...


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.  In the law courts, in business, in government.  There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.    -Cormac MacCarthy

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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Re: Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood [Re: Madtowntripper]
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That thread was made as a parody to mine. :crankey:


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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Hahhahahah.

Is funny.


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.  In the law courts, in business, in government.  There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.    -Cormac MacCarthy

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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Re: Oryx and Crake - a novel by Margaret Atwood [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
a collection of H.P. Lovecraft stories to follow it up with.



Good man.  Lovecraft is the shit.  Laugh at his terrible dialogue but cower at his psychedelic frights.

I'll be sure to check out Oryx and Crake when I finish Cat's Cradle and Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.  :smile:


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