Good E-Reader Free Things
08-02-2010, 09:10 PM
*Oryx and Crake* (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC1BNI/?tag=booksontheknob-20), by Margaret Atwood, is on sale for 99 cents in the Kindle store. This title is the follow-up to *The Handmaid's Tale* (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEI32U/?tag=booksontheknob-20), which is still on sale for $3.95 (there are two editions; I linked in the one that I have, as* the newer edition* (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003JFJHTS/?tag=booksontheknob-20) doesn't even have a publisher cover image; both are the same price, if someone wants to sample both and report any differences). If you want to read more of the series, *The Year of the Flood* (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002PXFYKG/?tag=booksontheknob-20) is now out as well, and currently $8.69.*Book Description*Margaret Atwood's classic novel The Handmaid's Tale is about the future. Now, in Oryx and Crake, the future has changed.As the story opens, the narrator, who calls himself Snowman, is sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. In a world in which science-based corporations have recently taken mankind on an uncontrolled genetic-engineering ride, he now searches for supplies in a wasteland. Insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the Pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is Snowman left with nothing but his bizarre memories