oryx and crake

Oryx and crake was not the worst book I have read. But I expected a little more when I read the back of the book it sounded really promising. The first quarter of the book is nothing but reminiscing of a past long ago. This was really annoying for a very long time I kept wanting to get past that part. Just back and forth back and forth. I kept really wanting to know what is going on in the present. Because there seemed to be some sort of catastrophe. And snowman or once known as jimmy seemed to be one of the last originals. Who seemed to be some sort of spectacle or some sort of exotic animal. When the book would rewind you got a sense there was a lot of genetic modification going on which meant that people were sick and needing things like fresh grown organs from something called a pigoon. The post apocalyptic world the novel is set in is fantastic and wild world. The book gives up no details easily its like watching lost. You painstakingly have to read to get any details out of the book. And even then almost nothing is reveled. But it is this that make the book very strong. One thing that intrigued me is how crake formed his own society. Of nieve people making them live how he feels society should live. And when oryx enters the picture things take a weird turn. Jimmy or should I say snowman has an unhealthy obsession with her being with her is never enough. He wants to know all these details about her old life. Despite the fact that oryx tells him it means nothing. That she did what she had to and does not consider to many things bad. After all she is still alive and thats all that is important.