Oryx and Crake (Reaction)

        I've always had something of a soft spot for dystopian novels, though I could never put a finger on why. Maybe it's that the cynic in me wants the horrible future portrayed in works like Oryx and Crake to come true, or maybe it's simply cathartic release by comparison, as I thank my lucky stars that the world isn't that bad just yet. Either way, Oryx and Crake scratched my dystopian itch rather nicely; it displays a future gone on technological overload, a populace which has simultaneously grown so perverse in its tastes--the two protagonists' habitual viewing of child pornography comes to mind--while growing excessively conservative in certain other aspects, such as Crake's eventual project as a bioengineer, the Crakers, which would eliminate all aspects of "wrongdoing" which Crake perceives in the human race.  As a whole the novel reflects a society that has gone insane with oversaturation of media. Morals have disappeared, and the story as a whole is rather alarming.