She also wrote that, “Tonally, ‘Oryx and Crake’ is a roller-coaster ride. The book proceeds from terrifying grimness, through lonely mournfulness, until, midway, a morbid silliness begins sporadically to assert itself, like someone, exhausted by bad news, hysterically succumbing to giggles at a funeral”. The American writer, Joyce Carol Oates, made a note of the novel as “moral ambitious and darkly prophetic” (2009)comparing with the Atwood’s another popular novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Oates also called the work as an "ambitiously concerned, skillfully executed performance".
She also wrote that, “Tonally, ‘Oryx and Crake’ is a roller-coaster ride. The book proceeds from terrifying grimness, through lonely mournfulness, until, midway, a morbid silliness begins sporadically to assert itself, like someone, exhausted by bad news, hysterically succumbing to giggles at a funeral”. The American writer, Joyce Carol Oates, made a note of the novel as “moral ambitious and darkly prophetic” (2009)comparing with the Atwood’s another popular novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Oates also called the work as an "ambitiously concerned, skillfully executed performance".