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The Year of the Flood
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne, Katie MacNichol, Mark Bramhall
- Series: The MaddAddam Trilogy, Book 2, The MaddAddam Trilogy (Published Order), Book 2
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Snemand bor alene i et træ og kæmper for at overleve den dræbervirus, som har efterladt jorden fuld af vraggods, affald og lumske rovdyr. Hans eneste selskab er crakerne, gensplejsede, menneskelignende væsner, som han har reddet fra katastrofen. Men der var engang, da Snemand ikke var Snemand. I stedet hed han Jimmy. En lidt forsømt og ensom dreng, der boede med sine forældre i et beskyttet og gennemkontrolleret samfund, hvor faderen var genforsker.
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The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners - a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life - has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible.
Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers...
Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: The lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away...
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- Rebecca Schutte
- 2018-09-14
Awesome Book
I loved this book and the whole series was so good. Margaret Atwood never disappoints! #Audible1
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- Elizabeth ( zil) Edwards
- 2018-03-19
Gripping tale
Loved the marvelous world so full of detail and wit, strong characters that will stay with me long after the end of the story.
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- Joe
- 2022-05-11
I enjoyed the first book but...
Heavy on the religious side even if it is a made up cult. I could definitely do without the singing. The tie in with book one seems almost an afterthought.
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- Pasha
- 2021-09-16
Disappointed was worsened by the performance!
Briefly about the book, a marked downgrade from Oryx and Crake for Atwood, when the underneath concepts of creations, God, consciousness, etc. turn into a high-school love and superficial religious like slogans. Numerous gaps in the story are filled by corpsecorp, accidents and incomprehensible love.
The audiobook in my opinion takes the experience further down to the level of irritation. Toby's performer with her exaggerated voice making, which is not even consistent with the rest of the performers (voice of characters in Ren's part or Adam one) dictates her own feelings associated with the scene to the audiences. This takes away the beauty of imagination and identification with the characters. Overall I hope MaddAddam is performed as magnificent as the Oryx and Crake.
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- Michelle
- 2021-07-26
Not worth the purchase
I love Margaret Atwood. I loved Oryx and Crake. This? I didn’t get it. It didn’t seem related, really. Very boring. Disappointing.
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- Kristie
- 2021-07-16
good story, excellent narration.
This really brings the previous book to life. The view from many characters made visualizing all the beasts and beings so easy, I was able to really get into it. The concept is fascinating, especially during this pandemic! I'll be ordering the 3rd novel immediately.
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- Tanner
- 2021-07-11
great follow-up
Ric a while to get in to it but once you accept the structure it's a very engaging story.
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- Steven Choquette
- 2021-04-17
Preachy and anoying
the weird addition of Hymns endorsed by the author from the pseudo religion of green peace or as they call them gardeners made this a painful experience to endure. when I figured out adam1's ramblings had nothing to do with the story I simply skipped his sermon chapters all together not detracting from the story at all. the voice actors (other than the singer) were very good... given what they had to work with.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2021-01-07
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While this trilogy remains one of my Atwood favorites, the narration leaves something to be desired. It starts quite distorted, as if the female individual has her lips pressed directly up against the microphone. The male who performs in this does a better job of reading the story. But once the female starts again, it it incredibly distracting and hard to follow.
If you are an Atwood fan, the first in the series, "Oryx and Crake" has a much better narration. I am hoping the third book, "Maddadam" is worth the money.
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- Caleb
- 2020-12-25
Lackluster side plotting to main story
I read oryx and crake first and was super excited to read this one to find out what happened next.
However, the only interesting parts were after the pandemic breakout around chapter 70 and left at the same moment (timeline-wise) as the first novel did.
The whole novel just felt like a lot of unneeded backstories meant to help fill in the gaps give more on what happened behind the sense of oryx and crake. I say unneeded because readers really should have been able to reasonably determined/guess at home everything played out behind the senses as oryx and crake was a masterpiece of mind games, aftshadowing, foreshadowing, human sociology, human psychology, and near-future cutting edge bioengineering and biotechnologies.
Edit: After reading the final novel Maddadam I no longer see the reading of this novel as a waste of time. I do see its value in making the impact the final novel has on the reader. I still do wish this novel felt more inline/jointed with the first novel as it made it a hard read the first time through it.
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- Linda Novak
- 2009-10-18
Atwood at her very best!
One of the few times I would say the audio book is better than the printed page. It's true . . . the "cheesy" music fits the parodical lyrics perfectly. I wanted to read it again immediately, but was afraid I would never leave M.A.'s world. As well-done as Handmaid's Tale or her other masterpieces - and the parody/irony/humor is so dry you'll need moisturizer when you are forced to stop listening and participate in real life.
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- Zivan Krischer
- 2009-10-18
Oryx and Crake Revisited
I loved Oryx and Crake. This book is to O&C like Ender's Shadow is to Ender's Game.
It's the same story from another point of view.
Instead of telling the story from within the corporation compounds, it is told from the point of view of the plebe lands and concentrates around the God's Gardeners group.
I found it easier to identify with Jimmy in O&C, as I am a word person in a tetchy world, a bit worried about where this world is going. The extreme nature of the God's Gardeners green cult is harder to identify with.
I love nostalgia and meeting the characters from O&C again was allot of fun. I did think Atwood laid the references to O&C a little too thick. We meet just about every character we knew, event's from Oryx and Crake are alluded to in very high detail. For example if in O&C Jimmy tells how a girl caught him reading her diary, then in The Year of the Flood you meet this girl and she describes the event down to how many times she underlined different words in the message she wrote him.
I may be too sensitive to this because I made sure to reread O&C before starting the Year of the Flood. But this is the main reason I'm deducting one star from my rating for this book.
I really enjoyed The Year of the Flood, it was allot of fun to revisit the O&C world. The only thing wrong with it is that like many sequels it doesn't match the brilliance of the original.
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- Pink Flame of Liberty
- 2009-10-11
Yay! More dystopian goodness.
This book was a wonderful surprise! I had read Oryx and Krake multiple times and was left wanting me after the ending. This book is not a sequel, but rather covers the same period of time but from the point of views of different characters in a totally different situation. I didn't know that when I picked it up, and when I realized that is what it was, I was thrilled. It is not necessary to have read O&K to enjoy this one, nor is it necessary to read one before the other. I don't think I have ever ran into this kind of story-telling, and it was a very satisfying experience. Like O&K, there are some racy (raunchy) parts and language I could have done without, but the dystopian story captured my imagination.
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- Melinda
- 2010-05-10
The best of the MaddAddam trilogy
Everything about this audiobook is top notch: the story, the narrators, the characterization. Atwood at her best.
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- Starlet
- 2009-11-15
Read AND Listen to this one
I listened to this book and Margaret Atwood is one of my favorite authors. I also administer an Atwood Group on Shelfari. However, it took me over 30 chapters (into the second part) before I could make heads or tails. As someone else said, it is worth it eventually. I could probably go back and read it again and it would be more meaningful and less confusing. In the audio version, there is singing throughout (about every 10 chapters. I discovered that it comes at the end of a chapter, so you can move ahead and skip it. I kind of got used to it in the end and didn't even bother turning it off. I really do think if I listened to it again that it would hold up because the characters are all worth listening to. I would use Levenger's advice in the Little Guide to a Well Read Life and read along on my iPhone Kindle application.
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- Dave Cole
- 2009-09-27
meh.
I bought and enjoyed oryx and crake, and am generally a fan of Atwood, and dystopic/post-apocalyptic fiction is by far my favorite genre, but i was seriously disappointed with The Year of The Flood. It was slow as hell, and even a top quality narration could not rescue it for me--although it is why i was able to listen through to the end. Only buy this one if you are a truly die-hard Atwood fan and will read anything she has written regardless of quality or if you were so utterly enthralled by everything about Oryx and Crake that any trip back to that world would be worthwhile for you. There is less of a story here than there is a meandering struggle alongside a handful of characters--and what little story there was is unresolved at the end.
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- S. Tisdale
- 2010-10-20
Slow starter and a bit disappointing
First, I want to correct my rating to give it 3.5 stars. While I did not enjoy this story as much as Oryx and Crake it was not horrible. The first half is a bit slow going and seems unevenly paced but into the second half the pace picks up considerably and you begin to see more of how this narrative connects to Oryx and Crake.
My biggest issue with (and this could simply be my being too pedantic) is the narrators pronunciation of "CorpSeCorps". Unlike the narration of Oryx and Crake (where the narration uses the correct pronunciation) all three narrators here say Corp-See-Corpse and not Corp-See-CORE as would be appropriate for the description of a Corporate Security Force.
For me, I find a mispronunciation in an audiobook very distracting AND annoying. The music and songs used for the Gardener's Hymnals is definitely cheesy but it feels appropriate in the context of the story and character which does add some depth to Adam One and the Gardeners.
The Year of the Flood is not Atwood's best work (That would be The Handmaid's Tale) and not quite on par with Oryx and Crake but it isn't abysmal by any stretch of the imagination. That said, I do not think it's worth $31.50 at regular price and I'd hesitate to pay the $22.05 member price but the 1 credit spent seems a good compromise for your 14 hour investment.
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- Paul
- 2010-02-06
Great story telling
Let's start with the singing... It is controversial, and and I am squarely on the fence. By the time I got to the end of the book, I started warming it up to it. But I am not convinced that it really add that much to the book.
The story itself was very engaging and occasionally funny. It makes me think about the kind of things we are doing to the environment. But like the characters in the book, there is a tension between us humans and our fellow creatures. May be the 'right thing to do' is to apologize and thank the animals before we eat them.
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- Mel
- 2013-04-20
Will It Be Bail, Sink, or Swim?
Two sequels have done the on/off on/off on/off dance on my device this week, neither one was able to hold my interest, and this is one of them (the other is Queen of Bedlam). I tried and tried, re-read the great reviews, remembered my fondness for Atwood. What am I doing wrong?! Listening to this was like watching i c e b e r g ... r a c e s with bad music. At the halfway point, I began mentally deteriorating. Not that it isn't inventive, and as usual for Atwood, beautifully written, but I found myself uncharacteristically yelling at my ipod..."Okay!! I get it! Move on already...and for the love of God don't sing." This worried my family, so I had to quit.
I'm being completely unfair, Atwood is a brilliant writer I admire very much. I was almost giddy looking forward to reading this sequel. (I reserve the right to come back and write a glowing review when I pass the finish point.) But, up to the heavier side of halfway, I felt the story added nothing to Oryx and Crake, and felt like Atwood was belaboring her point. I'm not ragging on TYOTF -- or discouraging any of you from picking up this sequel to Oryx & Crake--quite the opposite. I hope to read many more reviews before I decide to either try again, or bail out completely.
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- Prince
- 2009-12-11
A disappointing sequel to Oryx and Crake
Atwood's strengths are her mesmerizing use of language, metaphor, and imagery. She is one of the greatest word people of our generation. Usually, her characters have amazing and interesting psychological depth that you can immerse yourself into. Her stories, while engaging, are secondary to her style. "Oryx and Crake", and "Handmaid's Tale", are examples of her best work. "Year of the Flood," is not. The plot wrapped up many of the loose ends in O&C, but Atwood's poetic artistry was missing from her writing style. O&C was literature; YotF was a plot, and not a great one at that. There was some poetry in the songs, but the campfire/folk music style was more annoying than enriching. If you are an Atwood fan, you should probably read it, so that you can say that you did. If you haven't read her, try one of her other books before judging her.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2017-07-29
Creative storytelling
Beautiful told with different voices and songs that gave the story an extra dimension. The drama in the voice of adam1 is really something I will remember.
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- Dana
- 2010-12-15
Green Thumbs Up
I enjoyed this book's plot and its characters.
It was overall very amusing to listen to and the narrators did an
exceptional job.
This is an origional story line with lots of new ideas.
We definately learn a lot about Atwood, unfortunately, she's probably not my kind of girl... I enjoyed her book quite a lot anyway !