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MaddAddam
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- Narrateur(s): Bernadette Dunne, Bob Walter, Robbie Daymond
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Oryx and Crake
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Campbell Scott
- Durée: 10 h et 30 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 739
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 651
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 651
As the story opens, Snowman is sleeping in a tree, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, so-so narrator
- Écrit par Jordyn le 2018-12-06
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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The Blind Assassin
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Lorelei King
- Durée: 18 h et 26 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 193
With The Blind Assassin, Atwood proves once again that she is one of the most talented, daring, and exciting writers of the time. Like The Handmaid's Tale, this Book Prize winner is destined to become a classic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Horrible performance. like a translator on news
- Écrit par Team Awesomeness le 2019-10-28
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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The Heart Goes Last
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Cassandra Campbell, Mark Deakins
- Durée: 12 h et 11 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 72
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around—and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in . . . for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- Écrit par Sandy le 2019-08-15
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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Surfacing
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Kim Handysides
- Durée: 6 h et 59 min
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Au global3.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 31
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Histoire3 out of 5 stars 31
Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices. Surfacing is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Hate filled book
- Écrit par PCR le 2019-08-01
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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The Robber Bride
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Bernadette Dunne
- Durée: 20 h et 12 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 83
Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom", a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-10-21
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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My Evil Mother
- A Short Story
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Hillary Huber
- Durée: 57 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 26
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It’s okay except for the fantastical
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-09-03
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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Oryx and Crake
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Campbell Scott
- Durée: 10 h et 30 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 739
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 651
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 651
As the story opens, Snowman is sleeping in a tree, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, so-so narrator
- Écrit par Jordyn le 2018-12-06
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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The Blind Assassin
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Lorelei King
- Durée: 18 h et 26 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 193
With The Blind Assassin, Atwood proves once again that she is one of the most talented, daring, and exciting writers of the time. Like The Handmaid's Tale, this Book Prize winner is destined to become a classic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Horrible performance. like a translator on news
- Écrit par Team Awesomeness le 2019-10-28
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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The Heart Goes Last
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Cassandra Campbell, Mark Deakins
- Durée: 12 h et 11 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 72
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around—and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in . . . for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- Écrit par Sandy le 2019-08-15
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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Surfacing
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Kim Handysides
- Durée: 6 h et 59 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global3.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 31
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Histoire3 out of 5 stars 31
Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices. Surfacing is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Hate filled book
- Écrit par PCR le 2019-08-01
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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The Robber Bride
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Bernadette Dunne
- Durée: 20 h et 12 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 83
Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom", a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-10-21
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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My Evil Mother
- A Short Story
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Hillary Huber
- Durée: 57 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 26
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It’s okay except for the fantastical
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-09-03
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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Alias Grace
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Sarah Gadon, Margaret Atwood
- Durée: 15 h et 57 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 1 260
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 1 084
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it.
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2017-11-16
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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The Handmaid's Tale
- Special Edition
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood, Valerie Martin - essay
- Narrateur(s): Claire Danes, Ray Porter, Margaret Atwood, Autres
- Durée: 12 h et 6 min
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After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.
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5 out of 5 stars
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2x Speed
- Écrit par Tracey Lough le 2018-04-24
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood, Autres
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Stone Mattress
- Nine Tales
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Margaret Atwood, Rob Delaney, Mark Bramhall, Autres
- Durée: 10 h et 2 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace. Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996 novel, Alias Grace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed every minute
- Écrit par Shannon S. le 2021-02-10
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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Hag-Seed
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): R.H. Thompson
- Durée: 8 h et 11 min
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Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: Not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge.
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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Life Before Man
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Deborah Burgess, Libby Lennie, Geoff Bowes
- Durée: 11 h et 53 min
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Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices - after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man. She has just lost her latest lover to suicide. Nate, her gentle, indecisive husband, is planning to leave her for Lesje, a perennial innocent who prefers dinosaurs to men.
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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Bodily Harm
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Angela Nevard
- Durée: 10 h et 5 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 55
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A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm is ultimately an exploration of the lust for power, both sexual and political, and the need for compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling story-telling at its best
- Écrit par Claire D. le 2017-12-22
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
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Audie Award Finalist, Science Fiction, 2014
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Notable Book
A Best Book of the Year: The Guardian, NPR, The Christian Science Monitor, The Globe and Mail
A GoodReads Reader's Choice
Bringing together Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy points toward the ultimate endurance of community, and love.
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, newly fortified against man and giant pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasi-human species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. Their reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is recovering from a debilitating fever, so it's left to Toby to preach the Craker theology, with Crake as Creator. She must also deal with cultural misunderstandings, terrible coffee, and her jealousy over her lover, Zeb.
Zeb has been searching 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. But now, under threat of a Painballer attack, the MaddAddamites must fight back with the aid of their newfound allies, some of whom have four trotters. At the center of MaddAddam is the story of Zeb's dark and twisted past, which contains a lost brother, a hidden murder, a bear, and a bizarre act of revenge.
Combining adventure, humor, romance, superb storytelling, and an imagination at once dazzlingly inventive and grounded in a recognizable world, MaddAddam is vintage Margaret Atwood - a moving and dramatic conclusion to her internationally celebrated dystopian trilogy.
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Au global2 out of 5 stars
- Qtkidzmom
- 2022-02-01
Boring
listened to chapter 12, and all I could think about is when can I stop my car and delete this book.
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- Nicole Price
- 2018-08-14
quite amazing story telling, hard to stop.
Didn't realise this was the last book in a trilogy upon purchase, but still enjoyed immensely. Took a little while to get into it as it is a little challenging to understand the context, but fascinating how the story unfolds, with flashbacks to the past as well as the present. Will definitely read the others! Well performed by the readers.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- Najah
- 2023-09-30
incredible book
This trilogy is one of the best I read. although it is dark, but it carries hope and wisdom..highly recommended
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- Kathy
- 2023-09-09
Unforgettable
I loved this final book of the trilogy. Atwood is a creative genius and her choices in plot and voice are deliberate and masterful. I liked the use of three different narrators here for the story. When the third comes in near the end, it's an emotional wallop to hear his voice and view this story from his perspective. This is a text that works so well as an audiobook.
I listened to this trilogy over the course of the summer and since I finished, I'm sad every day that the journey is over.
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Au global3 out of 5 stars
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- Kirsten
- 2023-05-14
Too much backstory
I greatly enjoyed the first book, but the following two were chores to get through. The 3rd being slowest of all.
I wish they’d just cut the latter two into one book, excluding the drawn out thought processes of the Crakers trying to understand our world through the context of their own quasi-religion. It wasn’t novel, felt overly simplistic, and mostly just killed the pacing of the actual story—what little there was.
I wouldn’t recommend anyone read the latter two.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- Allneen
- 2023-04-12
Great listen! I love this series!
I have replayed this book many times. The narration in this series is above and beyond!
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- KarenB
- 2023-04-06
One of my top three audiobooks!
I had already read this excellent Margaret Atwood novel — the physical book — but this is extraordinarily enjoyable! The narrators are perfect for the book, reflecting the authentic nature of the characters. I have listened to this book many, many times. Returning to it enables me to spend time with the characters I like so much — especially Toby, Zeb and Adam. Margaret Atwood is brilliant!!
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Au global3 out of 5 stars
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- Megan Fit
- 2023-01-25
Too much swearing
The story grows on you, but I don’t think it’s a good ending to this trilogy. Just okay… way too much swearing!
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- Manu Gopinath
- 2023-01-14
My favourite of the trilogy!
A must read if you liked the first two in the series. Better than book two.
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- Ania
- 2023-01-01
Multiple narrators adds variety to story
The changing narration was a plus, however some of the voices sounded rather dull, monotone- which was hard to listen to.
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- Charlie D
- 2013-11-03
Happily Suprised
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I loved "Oryx and Crake", but "The Year of the Flood" was only mildly interesting. I couldn't live with listening to 2/3 of the series, so while I wasn't expecting much, I gambled on "MaddAddam". While it lacked the novelty of "Oryx and Crake", it ended up being a great listen, and wrapped up the story nicely. I'm glad I stuck with it.
I guess it is very true about the second book in a trilogy being the weakest.
Don't give up, if your on the fence.
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- Tee Lock
- 2013-09-16
brilliant cautionary tale
I'm a huge atwood fan. her writing is eerily insightful and subtly biting. she is a master at world -building and character development without becoming trite or verbose. I've followed her since the early 90s and love this trilogy. hope she decides to do another because she's an incredible storyteller
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- Bill S.
- 2014-01-31
A Fine Finish
Any additional comments?
If you loved the first two, this will be no disappointment. Lots of new viewpoints, questions answered, loose-ends tied, and completion.
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- Patricia W. Moore
- 2013-10-03
Interminable; tarnishes first 2 books' brilliance
I devoured Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, fascinated with their brilliant and prescient creation of a dystopia in the near future. I was greatly looking forward to MaddAddam but was sorely disappointed in every way. The plot just ran out of steam, dragging on interminably about characters' prior lives. It also started to pile up a massive amount of gratuitous violence, repetitive and pointless. I also did not like the two main narrators. They both sounded like very annoying voiceover artists; they probably ARE voiceover artists. The woman reading the part of Toby sounded like one of those treacly female voiceovers in a laundry detergent commercial. The man reading the part of Zeb sounded like the growly, deep male voiceover in a futuristic action movie starring Bruce Willis: "In a world . . . Where humanity faces extinction . . . One man . . . Can save them . . .". That got really hard to take after five minutes or so. My recommendation is if you are hooked by the first two books in the series, check this third book out of the library, or sit and glance through it at Barnes & Noble without buying it. You can speed read the plot to see what happens, whereas with an audiobook you are forced to sit through it.
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- Darryl
- 2014-03-24
weakest of the trilogy
i'm sorry but for me there is little or nothing salvageable from this one. I had high hopes being Atwood, a writer I have respect for, but unfortunately she is rehashing ground already rehashed to an extent in 2nd one Year of the Flood. Had this novel not gone backwards yet again with the Zeb backstory in detail it may have been better. I had hoped that she was going to go on after the events that ended Flood/Oryx and present the world she created in the next stages. Alas, no. I would much rather she had channeled her efforts toward something unrelated and given us another classic.
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Au global3 out of 5 stars
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- UncleHammy
- 2013-09-13
Not as good as O&C or The Flood
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
This book was an interesting end to the Oryx and Crake series. It delves into the background of some of the minor characters from the first two books. It also diiscusses what happens with the Crakers. As such it was a good final chapter. But the story was a little slow and the main plot was not very compelling.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
It would have been better if the author spent more time on the Crackers, pigoons and some of the aftermath of the Great Flood, rather than the issue with the Painballers.
Would you listen to another book narrated by the narrators?
The narrators were good. I would listen to them again.
Do you think MaddAddam needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
I think it was a fitting end to the O & C series.
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- Erika
- 2013-12-27
Loved and Hated
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
As much as I loved many aspects of this book, I found myself often annoyed by Toby's ruminations on her relationship with Zeb. It was like Atwood was exploring some post-middle-aged romance when I really wanted the plot to be more about the Crakers and the post-apocalyptic atmosphere they now all inhabit.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
I missed the Jimmy from Oryx and Crake. Hearing his part read by the female narrator, who made him sound like a sick old lady, was extremely disappointing. He spends most of the book unconcious and then when he wakes up, his character is poorly developed. I had such high hopes for his character and in the end... well, I don't want to spoil it, but highly disappointing!
What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
I liked the narrator who read Zeb's part the best, but Bernadette Dunne, though she is a good narrator, makes me feel like the book should be for retired women.
Was MaddAddam worth the listening time?
Yes. I could never have NOT read the third in this series. Oryx and Crake had such an impact on me.
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- Ebony J. McGee
- 2020-05-22
Meh.
I read all 3 books in this trilogy and was super excited for this one but by was it slow. Jeb wasn't even a main character and neither was Toby so I'm not sure how they just took over this story but...it was a tough read until the last handful of chapters. The ending was very special and emotional so that made up for some of lag, but overall, this was a book that could have easily been incorporated in on of the other books.
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- Lora S.
- 2017-03-20
The final battle - maybe
This is the third book in the Maddaddam Trilogy.
Most of this book is the backstory of the history of Zeb and Adam One, and how they came to be involved with Crake and Pilar. However, it also tells how Toby trains one of the Craker children, a little boy called Blackbeard, to write, so that he is able to take up the task of writing the history of the Maddaddamites and the Crakers. It also tells how the conflict with the Painballers is resolved. And most surprisingly, it tells how, with Blackbeard as their interpreter, the Maddaddamites and the Pigoons come to an understanding and agree to work together on the hunt for the Painballers and to cease hostilities between each other. Although some parts near the end are sad, the overall tone of the book is hopeful.
Great narration.
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- 2015-03-11
The Oryx and Crake trilogy.
Absolutely one of the best stories ever. Thank you to Margaret Atwood. Each book better than the one before.
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