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I am in two book clubs, one for science fiction and the other eclectic (current fiction/nonfiction, classics, poetry). Here on Audible, I post reviews of the Audible books I have listened to, which tend to be for my book clubs. I also purchase Audible books for when I am on long car rides with my husband. Those books tend to be nonfiction. To read my reviews of non-audio books, friend me on GoodReads @ Julie Capell.

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  • The Year of the Flood | [Margaret Atwood]
    The Year of the Flood
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    The Year of the Flood

    • UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 4 mins)
    • By Margaret Atwood
    • Narrated By Bernadette Dunne, Katie MacNichol, Mark Bramhall
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
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    (180)
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    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.

    Dave Cole says: "meh."
    "The Year in the title takes 25 years to come"
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    With great imagination, Atwood creates a world that is scarily recognizable as an all-too-possible future. Drug companies that seed their products with maladies to which only they control the remedies . . . fast food that is no longer recognizable as anything grown from the earth . . . leading to the growth of "fanatic" vegetarian cults . . . Yet, the overall effect of the book was somewhat tedious. The author did not employ her wry humor often enough, and the sections describing life before the "dry flood" felt too long. Disclaimer: I have not read Oryx and Crake, which I now realize is a prequel to this book.

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