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Choke Collar (2012)

by Margaret Atwood(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Byliner, Inc.

series

Positron

review 1: Pros - quick and fun to read, both dark and funny.Cons - can meander at times.This second episode of Atwood's singles series is every bit as engrossing as the first as she continues to torment poor Stan in a scarily believable dystopian future. We rejoin him as his dreams of rampant sex with the tantalising Jasmine have just ben crushed and he is now shacked up with a crazy power-mad Jocelyn while his wife gets down and dirty with the weaselly Max/Phil. Whilst the plot thickens Atwood begins to make the characters a little more sympathetic, or not I guess depending on your own moral compass, she also starts to show us that maybe all is not as it seems and Consilience is far murkier than it first appears. One of my favourite things about Atwood's writing is her ability to m... moreake her stories dark and yet still retain a wicked sense of humour.I'm not sure how long this series is going to last, but for the moment I'm hooked.
review 2: While "I'm Starved for You" was a decent stand alone as a short story, and I suspected at the time it was a testing ground for the theme of a future novel, this second episode is both less complete and less satisfying now that I know it is part of a serial. It didn't add much to the world she created; it didn't really advance the characters; if anything it was a like a cliff-hanger episode of a soap opera, where you get just enough info to know worse things are coming but not to know how things will turn out. Actually, it read like a chapter, which ultimately it is, but excerpted from the rest of the book.I expect, when Positron is finished, this will fit it and the whole thing will work like Oryx or Year of the Flood. But while I like the idea of bringing back penny papers, Dickensien payment per installment style, I don't think this instalment made it as a short story and so it didn't really deserve to be a "book" unto itself. less

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