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Oryx and Crake: Reading the Work 1

Ive started reading Oryx and Crake by Margret Atwood a few weeks ago on my way to LA. The first few pages are just so hard to get through tbh. The style Atwood uses just seems really dry to me. It really resembles the first few chapters of Handmaids Tale. I think that its just the way Atwood choses to write. I know towards the end of Handmaids tale, the story picked up a lot and it go very interesting so i know that somewhere along in this book, it will get interesting.

Trying to continue to read it while its dull is just really hard. It makes it really hard to pick it up and read and read when i keep zoning out or not thinking about what im reading. Theres some chapters that i just couldnt finish because it was just so uninteresting. I literally wrote in the book, “This chapter was so boring. I did not finish it. Finna sparknote it.” 

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Oryx and Crake: Picking the Work

The book that I have chosen is Oryx and Crake by Margret Atwood. I wanted to read a dystopian book because I feel like sad, depressing, horrible future books are the books that im the most interested to. Personally, I dont like reading. In 5th grade, they used to force us to read and i think thats where i lost interest in picking up a book for fun, so finding a book that looked or sounded “Interesting” to me was hard. At first, i wanted to read 1984 by Orwell, but it was already taken. My second pick was Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, but apparently it was “too middle school” for me. 

In class, we had just finished reading Handmaid’s Tale and it was pretty interesting. The whole dystopian concept had me intrigued, so i decided to read another book by Margret Atwood. Oryx and Crake has a dystopian futuristic trilogy. I am NOT reading all three books unless i am totally in love with this book. Apparently, the world the main character lives in was affected by a plague and him and everyone is trying to survive. Theres some sort of love story going on and what not, but anything with a bad future that sounds relatively close to what mine will look like after failing this class sounds pretty interesting to me so, time to give this book a shot!