I'm unemployed dokteronline.com reviews Like its predecessor, this last volume never quite succeeds in establishing its world as something more than an authorial toy, while Atwood’s clear interest in the interiority of her characters is persistently undercut by the parodic demands she places on the setting. What began in Oryx and Crake as excruciating black comedy is now dulled to a kind of invasive jocularity, and the barbs at current affairs are getting less and less subtle, with far-future characters reflecting incongruously on “those riots they used to show in the documentaries of the early 21st century, when kids would join phone-swarms and then break windows and mob shops” and so on.
|