Oryx and Crake

I found this book at a thrift store about 2 years ago because i love Margaret Atwood and cant leave a good cheap book find behind. So I'm glad I've finally gotten to read it. Damn this book was scary. It hits a little too close to home in the direction of over population, food genetics, gene splicing and peoples panic towards disease. It moved a bit slow at first because i just was so curious about how the entire human race was dead except for this one guy and why he chose of all places to stay in a tree rather than in an abandoned home or some better shelter. Plus based on his descriptions i was curious at how much time had passed because it all sounded far too decayed and ruined to have just happened. Plus what's with the crazy weather?
So we go through snowman's childhood which was just so sad and depressing to read. That poor kid to have a father who doesn't pay attention and a mother who's not all mentally there. Its no wonder he has so many personality flaws and is just so difficult to truly like. He was just so depressing and pathetic, plus emotionally unaware of anyone around him and an annoying sex addict. It was just my dick this and my dick that..
It was interesting the way the compounds were described, i still cant visualize if they were in a dome like compound or just really high walls blocking them from the outside but the sky was open. Compared to housing in Florida for example now, it was basically like a futuristic, larger scale home development with a guard gate and the pleeblands were the normal streets of a town to me. The rich and privileged blocked in to keep the poor and filthy out.
My first reaction to the descriptions of Oryx and Crake were that they were a part of snowman and he was kinda a schitzo, but i was happy to learn they were real people. The things that Crake and Jimmy would watch online was really creepy. How easily they were able to access this child porn, videos of executions, the nite-nite.com of suicides. And to know that that was the majority for what the internet was for, it was strictly sex, death and weird games that i didn't fully understand how they played. Extinctathon was Crakes favorite, i don't believe i really understood how those people played a part in his final plan at the end, that kind of confused me...Some things flew over my head I'm sure, it was fairly complicated in some parts. Im not a big science person.
But overall this book i gathered was about where to draw the line in playing god. It begins with Jimmy's mom becoming depressed with her life over her work and the work of her husband and the people around her, she had enough. It weighed too heavy on her conscience all this splicing and organ growing to sell to poor people for far too much money just to get better. Then when Crake reveals how his father new his job was putting viruses in vitamins in order to make people sick to then sell them the antidote just to make more money! That hits a little too close to home right now. Everywhere you look these days there's a new disease you didn't know you had and a pill to fix it. But when Crake starts showing Jimmy his new school and all the things they are working on the same question pops up, where do you draw the line? That chickenNob was just waay too much. But i can also see how that would be the next direction for us with the over population of people and limited resources. There are just too many people, and the more food you create the more people, how do you fix this problem? Crake knew, to him it was the only way. Sure he had the sterilization pill but he obviously didn't believe it would be the cure. The world was just too fucked up, too corrupted and diseased the only way was to start from scratch with a new race with the right mindset to stay pure, like animals do.
Scary shit.

O and i was sooo sad when Jimmy's mom took killer away, he would never have survived after being domesticated like he was.