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Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against man and giant Pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasihuman species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. While their reluctant prophet, Jimmy--Crake's one-time friend--recovers from a debilitating fever, it's left to Toby to narrate the Craker theology, with Crake as Creator. She must also deal with cultural misunderstandings, terrible coffee, and her jealousy over her lover, Zeb. Meanwhile, Zeb searches for Adam One, founder of the God's Gardeners, the pacifist green religion from which Zeb broke years ago to lead the MaddAddamites in active resistance against the destructive CorpSeCorps. Now, under threat of an imminent Painballer attack, the MaddAddamites must fight back with the aid of their newfound allies, some of whom have four trotters. At the center is the extraordinary story of Zeb's past, which involves a lost brother, a hidden murder, a bear, and a bizarre act of revenge.… (meer)
Derde deel in deze trilogie en eigenlijk was deze iets anders dan de eerste twee delen. Het verhaal wordt verteld door Toby en Zeb en Zwartbaard, een van de jonge mensen die Crake heeft geschapen. Zwartbaard heeft van Toby schrijven geleerd en dat heeft hij verbazend snel door. Dus mag hij meeschrijven in het dagboek van Toby. Zijn verhalen zijn feitelijke weergaven van wat er gebeurd met als emotie verbazing. Toby verhalen hebben veel meer verschillende emoties want zij is een van de overleefden na de epidemie die de mensheid bijna volledig heeft uitgeroeid. Binnen deze verhalen vertelt Zeb zijn verhaal vanaf zijn geboorte tot nu. Verder zal ik iet te veel vertellen want er is een gevaar voor spoilers voor hen die nog aan de trilogie willen beginnen ( )
Atwood's prose miraculously balances humor, outrage and beauty. ... It's a pleasure to read a futuristic novel whose celebration of beauty extends to the words themselves. And words are very important here; by the moving end of "MaddAddam," we understand how language and writing produced the beautiful fiction that described our beginnings.
MaddAddam is slightly crazed, usually intriguing and often great fun. I would have enjoyed it even more, however, were it not for the nagging voice that said: instead of this, we might have had another Alias Grace, or another The Blind Assassin.
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For my family and for Larry Gaynor (1939-2010)
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The Story of the Egg, and of Oryx and Crake, and how they made People and Animals; and of the Chaos; and of Snowman-the-Jimmy; and of the Smelly Bone and the coming of the Two Bad Men
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But hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. Once you've had a little, you start shaking if you don't get more.
They're preternaturally beautiful, thinks Toby. Unlike us. We must seem subhuman to them, with our flapping extra skins, our aging faces, our warped bodies, too thin, too fat, too hairy, too knobbly. Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it.
There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.
People need such stories, Pilar said once, because however dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void.
Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.
What comes next? Rules, dogmas, laws? The Testament of Crake? How soon before there are ancient texts they feel they have to obey but have forgotten how to interpret? Have I ruined them?
...what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?
"He said that if you acted according to a belief, that was the same thing. As having the belief."
Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if it had a voice?
The people in the chaos cannot learn. They cannot understand what they are doing to the sea and the sky and the plants and the animals. They cannot understand that they are killing them, and that they will end by killing themselves. And there are so many of them, and each one of them is doing part of the killing, whether they know it or not. And when you tell them to stop, they don't hear you.
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Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against man and giant Pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasihuman species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. While their reluctant prophet, Jimmy--Crake's one-time friend--recovers from a debilitating fever, it's left to Toby to narrate the Craker theology, with Crake as Creator. She must also deal with cultural misunderstandings, terrible coffee, and her jealousy over her lover, Zeb. Meanwhile, Zeb searches for Adam One, founder of the God's Gardeners, the pacifist green religion from which Zeb broke years ago to lead the MaddAddamites in active resistance against the destructive CorpSeCorps. Now, under threat of an imminent Painballer attack, the MaddAddamites must fight back with the aid of their newfound allies, some of whom have four trotters. At the center is the extraordinary story of Zeb's past, which involves a lost brother, a hidden murder, a bear, and a bizarre act of revenge.
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Meer dan ooit is de westerse wereld in de ban van de mogelijkheid dat aan ons luxe leven een einde kan komen. Margaret Atwood, een van de grootste en meest gelezen schrijvers van onze tijd, geeft ons met MaddAddam haar visie op een leven in de zeer nabije toekomst. Enige tijd nadat een waterloze vloed het grootste deel van de mensenheid heeft vernietigd, hebben Toby en Ren hun vriendin Amanda uit handen van zogeheten Painballers gered. Zij leven teruggetrokken in het zwaarbeveiligde MaddAddamite Cob House, waar het leven evenmin eenvoudig blijkt te zijn. Te midden van allerlei gevaren van buiten moeten zij ook alledaagse gevaren zien te trotseren: culturele verwarring, jaloezie jegens onbereikbare geliefden, en verschrikkelijke koffie.
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