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An eerily-real read set in the years 2024 to 2027 and written as science fiction in 1993
Lauren is a 15-year-old girl living in an isolated southern California walled community where there are at least two guns in every household and the community's pastor-leader teaches that the police can't protect them so they must all know how to defend themselves. This includes gun-handling instruction in school, weekly target practice beginning at age 15, and an overall attitude based on Nehemiah 4:14, “And ...more
Lauren is a 15-year-old girl living in an isolated southern California walled community where there are at least two guns in every household and the community's pastor-leader teaches that the police can't protect them so they must all know how to defend themselves. This includes gun-handling instruction in school, weekly target practice beginning at age 15, and an overall attitude based on Nehemiah 4:14, “And ...more
Jun 28, 2022
Stephanie
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it was amazing
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sci-fi-dystopian
Wow! A book to make you think about life, society, the world. Interesting dystopian that could easily be to close to reality.
Exquisitely excruciating
I’m not sure I have the right words for the experience that is reading PARABLE OF THE SOWER. Devastatingly prescient, and I don’t know whether to be glad or sorry that Butler didn’t live to see the times we are living in. We may not - yet - be at the stage in the book. We could - oh, so horrible to acknowledge - get there.
I’m not sure I have the right words for the experience that is reading PARABLE OF THE SOWER. Devastatingly prescient, and I don’t know whether to be glad or sorry that Butler didn’t live to see the times we are living in. We may not - yet - be at the stage in the book. We could - oh, so horrible to acknowledge - get there.
I have the same struggle with this novel that I did with previous Octavia Butler novels I've read, which is that it takes a lot of pages before I can finally connect with and feel engrossed by the narrative. I don't know if it is the pacing, or the disconnected narrative voice, but it always takes long enough that I almost feel like DNFing the novel, and then suddenly something clicks and I can't stop reading.
There is a lot here to digest and sink into - religion, relationships, social and econo ...more
There is a lot here to digest and sink into - religion, relationships, social and econo ...more
Nov 01, 2020
CL
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really liked it
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future-dystopia-sci-fi
