Oryx and Crake (2)

I continued reading in Oryx and Crake this week. It has gotten really, really good. This may be why I read more than 4 hours in the story this past week. As I said previously, the book reminded of The Giver. It did, however, remind me a lot of The Giver at first, but it has now thrown me into a completely different loop. It is definitely for a mature audience; I probably would not let high school students read this book even due to much of the content. Still, it is a very great story for those able to handle it. Our world is completely mocked through the book as I have noticed. Jimmy (Snowman) remembers his time with Crake and how their friendship became so close. Crake is a complete genius - the opposite of Jimmy who is merely a mediocre individual who is decent with words. One of the things Crake and Jimmy do together is look at pornographic websites and videos. This is when they both get their first glimpse at Oryx as a little sex slave for one of the sites. They save the picture and there are some pieces missing here because Snowman (Jimmy) thinks about his time with Oryx and their conversations together at an older age. I just haven't read enough to piece together when they met up. A lot that I read has to do with Oryx explaining how she was sold to some man whom treated her well, as she says, because she sold flowers and gave all her money to him at the end of the day in exchange for minor scraps and a shabby place to sleep. Eventually she was told that she should go with the gentlemen who asked her to go up to their rooms with them for more money. Although her "boss" always saved her before anything actually happened, Oryx was exposed to a lot of real world situations. She was then sold to another man who made her a "movie star" where she revealed herself in nude shows. Jimmy hates her past, but Oryx keeps on insisting that she didn't know any different and that Jimmy needs to not worry about the past - the present is all that matters now. I left off at Jimmy's college years (before he met Oryx). So, I will know more the more I keep reading.