Comments on: The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/2009/10/02/marinas-review-the-year-of-the-flood-by-margaret-atwood/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:25:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daniel E http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/2009/10/02/marinas-review-the-year-of-the-flood-by-margaret-atwood/comment-page-1/#comment-3304 Daniel E Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:24:13 +0000 http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/?p=4241#comment-3304 Reading it now. And on Marina's advice I think I'll have to re-read Oryx and Crake straight afterwards to achieve the whole head-full of of Atwood civilisation demise. Considering the state we making of the planet, I've been preaching to friends and family saying Oryx and Crake and McCarthy's The Road are THE essential novels of the decade, as cautionary literary science fiction (and yes, these books by Atwood are of course science-fiction, despite her dislike of the application of that term to her work). Maybe I'll have to revise my preaching to include Year of the Flood. Reading it now. And on Marina’s advice I think I’ll have to re-read Oryx and Crake straight afterwards to achieve the whole head-full of of Atwood civilisation demise.

Considering the state we making of the planet, I’ve been preaching to friends and family saying Oryx and Crake and McCarthy’s The Road are THE essential novels of the decade, as cautionary literary science fiction (and yes, these books by Atwood are of course science-fiction, despite her dislike of the application of that term to her work). Maybe I’ll have to revise my preaching to include Year of the Flood.

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