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The Year Of The Flood

By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: John Voth, R J Hart, Rachel Angco
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By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace

The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world.

But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest dirty girls in town); and Toby, who watches and waits from her rooftop garden. Is anyone else out there?©2009 O. W. Toad Ltd Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
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one of the most gruesom and impactful series of book where every bad human habit is cranked up to 1000%. i highly recommend this series, but it's not for the fain of heart because there is a lot to digest as the series goes on. if you like to enrich Yourself with some uncomfortable thoughts - this book is for You.

In distant future there is only rot

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I really enjoyed this book. As with the first in the trilogy, I have previously read this in papernack format a few years ago, but I enjoyed the audiobook more. I think different voices and accents for the narrative are brilliant, and I enjoyed Adam One's sermons in the audiobook whereas I'm afraid I skipped past when when I read it myself. Brilliant installment to the trilogy and excellent performances.

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I liked the performances though I found the Adam 1 "lessons" rather dull listening until towards the end. The story is marred by having so much coincidence in it, that a small group of people who all know each other somehow are the only ones (individually or in small groups) to survive the world plague that supposedly kills everyone else. And there is only one brand of energy bar, only one brand of chicken burger etc. Everything seems oversimplified. It's not as interesting as Oryx and Crake but tells the same story from a different set of characters' viewpoints. Toby has the most interesting narrative and is a character you can get behind, Ren less so. Not sure whether I will listen to the third installment.

Interesting story though quite a simple tale

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