Amazing!!

I have found these books a bit heavy going at times but always worth the wait. the narrators were wonderful, especially the young man that narrated blackbeard so perfectly. favourite moment, when the pigoons carried snowman the.jimmy. I was almost.in tears by the end.

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Great book, uneven quality of narration

A wonderful, engaging tale pinned down with some deeply interesting and funny thought experiments. What would it be like to explain modern humanity to a stone age person? How does a religion get invented by a group without even them realising it's fiction?

In some fields of learning and research the biggest institutions are companies not universities. Which and how many areas of knowledge would companies need to get private monopoly on for them to take over the USA? How about healthcare/drug companies?

The female narrator, Bernadette Dunne, was great. The male narrator had a striking voice but a bad reader. Seemed to think that ending every sentence with the same rising inflection is a cool, stoical device rather than a transparent cover for the fact he has little idea what he's reading.

Still, the switching between voices is cool and helpful and in all, a great audiobook.

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brilliant covid 19 lockdown read

lots to think about! great to have read the whole trilogy during lockdown. I am in awe at Margaret Atwood's vision, too much of this resinates in 2020

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great conclusion to a great trilogy

Good read although slightly slow beginning. worth sticking to it though! intriguing end of trilogy

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Best of the three

I struggled with the first two audio books, not with the stories but with the way they were written. I found them slow and stilted. However, this third story flew by. I really enjoyed it and felt completely invested in the story and the characters. The narration is excellent.

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A great trilogy, and more than worthy final part.

A great final part of the trilogy, I am new to the whole audio book thing and I found the performance to be excellent. The only problem is that it is slower than reading.

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Fantastic. I didn’t want it to end

This final part of the trilogy is perhaps the best. Margaret Atwood has created an amazing yet credible post apocalyptic world with fabulous detail, the gene spliced fauna and flora, the engineered new humans, all set in the leftovers of the chaos. The three characters who tell the story are engaging and amusing (and they are brilliantly performed, especially Tobi and Blackbeard.) I think I’ll be hearing Blackbeard in my head for some time yet. It is of course extremely well written with wit and style. I laughed out loud in parts and smiled at many others. I recommend this highly but it would be a shame not to read Oryx and Crake and The Year of The Flood first.

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Brilliant

A trilogy that deserves to get into the lexicon, just as The Handmaids Tale did in a different era. But also just a great story of an end and a beginning.

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Another phenomenal Attwood piece of genius.

The remarkable brain of Margaret Attwood has created a trilogy of must-listen/read, yet again. Such a clever story, with so many extrapolations of our current global situation. Of so much relevance now that a pandemic has struck, little was she to know. Phenomenal stuff.

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Deeply sad

I listened to the trilogy one after the other. Made me look at advertising in a completely different way. When the story was done, I cried. Doesn't happen often. I'm a hard nosed beast.

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