Oryx and Crake

I for one love to read different writing styles, but usually I think it's only fair that if I read someone's novel they would have the decency to at least leave me with an ending instead of forcing me to question what will happen next. Other then that, this was a very interesting take on the future. (at lease, it seems like the future). This book to awhile to finish as CA got very busy. So please bear with me as I try to recall all the themes and interesting parts/ observations.

The novel starts of with a lot of questions from the reader. There are strange creators running around and the main character, who goes by the name of Snowman, seems to be the only human left. As the novel goes on we learn more about Snowman (Jimmy) and his tale, of which leads back to his current standings. Atwood has a lot of themes going in this novel. Human transplantion, (the pigoons, etc.) human value (this is questioned a number of ways throughout the book), and religion. Snowman (Jimmy) was established as a god to the Crakers by Crake, his old friend and creator of human demise. The book takes place in America, but there is no mention of government in any form. Corporations each sort of have a compound that people stive to live in. People have become so dependent on the materials these corporations sell, from vaccines to body parts, that they have become powerless consumers. The compounds seem to be united though (Jimmy's mother works for the establishment). It is important to work for a corporation for this reason alone so that the characters can stay out of the pleeblands, which are lawless. This made the book and the future feel bleak and hopeless for me. The idea that religion can be easily made up also added to the bleak feel. I thought the idea that Snowman is used in place of Jimmy's name for present tense and then Jimmy's real name is used to bring the reader to the past made the book much easier to follow at times.