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Literary Speculation


After listening to the Crake and Oryx audio book, I’ve decided that it’s an incredibly strange story. It kicks off highly disorienting, with a strange homeless man talking to alien-like children. It revolves around an apocalyptic present with flashbacks every now and then that explain the story bit by bit. The story manages to gets more strange when the main character’s love interest is revealed to be a girl he first saw in child porn (of all things) that he and his friend watched for fun (that’s fucked up).

It almost feels as if the story is deliberately trying to be as weird as is literarily possible. It doesn’t help that this universe also has man-made pig monsters that were designed to house human organs for extraction. All-in-all, this was a bizarre but oddly enjoyable listen. I may finish it this summer, given the chance.

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