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“All it takes,â€� said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, as he was soon in the habit of quipping during Happy Hour pickup time at the local campus bars and pubs. He couldn’t say he was looking forward to it, this rest-of-his-life.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
Reading Progress
April 14, 2011
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August 28, 2013
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ebook
August 28, 2013
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on-the-paperwhite
August 30, 2013
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Started Reading
August 30, 2013
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3.0%
"The chicken is in the pan! The Atwood is on the Kindle!
'Steaks didn't have heads.' Heh."
'Steaks didn't have heads.' Heh."
August 30, 2013
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5.0%
"'grow an assortment of foolproof human-tissue organs in a transgenic knockout pig host' - Peggy, I am so sorry, this IS sci-fi. But it's really good sci-fi!"
August 30, 2013
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5.0%
"'for-harvest child or two stashed away in some illegal baby orchard' - ZING for you, Never Let Me Go"
August 30, 2013
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6.0%
"I'm guessing Peggy is going with the all-purpose Inferno/Purgatorio/Paradiso structure here. This surely is Hell."
August 30, 2013
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6.0%
"Crake = Adam (namer, experimenter), Oryx = Eve (sexpot, sinner)? Which would make Jimmy....sorta Abel-ish, I guess. Abel did always seem a bit squshy."
August 30, 2013
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10.0%
"'Crake was good at those games because he was a master of the sideways leap.' OHO."
August 30, 2013
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10.0%
"'Any reader he can possibly imagine is in the past.' //waves - Hi, Snowman! Hi, we can see you, can you -- Hi! ....oh, wait, he's not real, either. Poor guy."
August 30, 2013
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20.0%
"The Blood and Roses game is cracking my shit up - so cynical - 'The exchange rates -- one Mona Lisa equalled Bergen-Belsen, one Armenian genocide equalled the Ninth Symphony plus three Great Pyramids -- were suggested, but there was room for haggling.'"
August 30, 2013
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25.0%
"'One afternoon in -- what? March, it must have been, because it was already hot as hell outside -- '"
August 30, 2013
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30.0%
"Snowbird, old buddy, you are even more of a wet hen than the useless narrator of Handmaid's Tale, which is really, really saying something."
August 30, 2013
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35.0%
"Oryx's story is so purely and heartbreakingly told. (And Jimmy is still a putz.) This seriously didn't win the goddamn Booker?"
August 30, 2013
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38.0%
"'bored WITH him' Peggy I fucking love you, everyone else nowadays says 'bored of me' and it drives me NUCKING FUTS."
August 30, 2013
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42.0%
"Their dicks turn bright blue and they bob around and SING and offer flowers? BAAAAAHAHAHAHAH //feels sorry for the male readers //somewhat"
August 30, 2013
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48.0%
"'Our Students Graduate with Employable Skills, ran the motto underneath the original Latin motto, which was Ars Longa Vita Brevis.'"
August 30, 2013
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80.0%
"'"Though you'd be surprised how many people would like a very beautiful, smart baby that eats nothing but grass. The vegans are highly interested in that little item. We've done our market research."'"
August 30, 2013
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85.0%
"'By midnight the hits were coming almost simultaneously. Dallas. Seattle. New New York.' Man, all the postapoc writers love to destroy Seattle."
August 30, 2013
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94.0%
"'"We knew we could call you, and you would hear us and come back."' fuuuuuuuck you //has been in tears for like five pages"
August 30, 2013
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Finished Reading
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Inadequate, but persuasive!
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