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The Year of the Flood
- MaddAddam Trilogy, Book 2
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Two women have avoided it: the young trapeze-dancer, Ren, locked into the high-end sex club; and former SecretBurgers meat-slinger turned Gardener, Toby, barricaded into a luxurious spa. Have others survived? And what are the odds for the human race?
By turn's dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most effective.
Critic Reviews
"Another stimulating dystopia from this always-provocative author, whose complex, deeply involving characters inhabit a bizarre yet frighteningly believable future." ( Kirkus Reviews)
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- Nikki Johnstno
- 25-07-2015
Great story and reading but....
I really enjoyed the story but for some reasons the hymns included as part of the story have been turned into actual songs and it's fairly jarring to go from the narrator to a song then back to the story.
If these had just been read normally it would have been much more enjoyable
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- Mara
- 12-11-2021
Great reading, awful musical interludes.
Excellent continuation of Oryx and Crake, and a great reading. However the musical interludes were awful and not what I want from an audiobook. You can skip through them, but it was still very annoying.
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- Veronica
- 17-07-2016
Great book
I Loved it I could not stop listening. Great sequel to oryx and crake. Good
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- Karla
- 02-02-2015
always wonderful
this whole performance just gets better with age. the God's Garden Oral Hymn Book really makes this special.
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- Toby Roberts
- 27-01-2015
Brutal and Beautiful
This book has a way of jumping between the tragic and the joyous that is really gripping. I love the world that it is set in. It is a parody of the direction we seem to be headed with corporations. In a way I see our future in this story.
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- Bradley martin
- 17-09-2023
The plot !! She just keeps me looking into every corner of my soul
I loved this second novel to the series! What Margret is able to achieve is to take the human world as we don’t see it and make it to a work in which we need to see it ! And once we do that we then start to look at every corner and cravis of the mind and soul and look deep within to know if you are capable of pushing the limits. Also the water loss flood was brilliant the music in this audbile version with the oral hyms is amassing . I have adhd so I read the physical book and also listen to it on audible at 5.5 x speed and read every night before bed espically and this scares me this book in my own brain. I don’t know if I could survive the waterless flood…
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- gemma
- 01-04-2023
Probably how things are going to pan out.
Atwood dusts off her crystal ball for a glimpse into what is now our very near and very wacky impending doom. The singing is a bit bad but the writing makes up for it.
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- Louisa
- 09-01-2023
It was ok, just ok though.
I didn't find this book to be a 'can't put down' listen at all, but pretty slow throughout. It was ok, a few good imaginings of what the future may look like but nothing super interesting. It was ok, to be honest it was a bit disturbing with a description/s of to child abuse which I wish I hadn't listened too and didn't in some parts. I don't think this trilogy is worth a purchase on audible to be honest. The writing is not fantastic and characters aren't developed enough. SPOILER: A huge chance of piquing the readers curiosity and giving us more information about Jimmy's mum and developing her character was totally lost in book #2. I'm almost through the last book and it's different narrators for each book and the last is crap. Also the story gets pretty bland and predictable at the start of book #3.
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- Morgan Newall
- 08-03-2022
Sheesh, those voices
Genuinely felt the narrator took significant, and unwarranted liberties, with the characters.
Caricatures that GOT IN THE WAY of the story.
I could not imagine Atwood herself vocalising these characters like this. Some were so hamfisted I needed to speed up to get that particular characters section over and done with. Ren was one of those characters.
To be fair, she was one of the least believable, 2d of the characters. Strange that coming from a female author, there were many flat, seemingly simplified female characters.
But sheesh - narrator pls tone it down, let the words speak, theatrics do not help here.
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- Bruce MacDonald
- 25-05-2020
Confusing narrative Annoying music
Probably more than an hour of the recording is songs. Really. With music.
Not what I wanted.
Another hour is the sermons of Adam, the leader of a group. These sermons are a device to tell the audience what has happened recently. But I found them boring.
I still don’t understand the chronology of the book. Most of the action takes place in year 25 but we were never at year zero. We start at year 15 when the world is already very different.
I kept waiting for the story to get going. I’m very disappointed.
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