I enjoyed the dystopian/post-apocalyptic elements, which felt plausible enought to satisfy me. It's also great as a coming-of-age story through difficult times. The protagonist, Lauren, is a strong and interesting character. My one caveat is that I found the attempts at creating a new belief system...
This book is heartbreaking and hopeful at the same time. Death and destruction and the end of the world as we know it, but slow enough to come that we're all lead into complacency by it.It's the heartbreaking story of a young girl, sole survivor of her family, trying to make sense out of the crazy ...
I thought "Parable" was a brilliant and terrifying dystopia with real current social implications. There are a handful of dystopian novels, among them, Orwell's 1984 and Bradury's 451, that are so relevant that they actually frighten some deepset part of your psyche. This is another one of those w...
I am going to start this review off by asking a theoretical question. There is a huge wave coming, it will wash you and everyone you love out to see. What do you do? Do you back up away from the water? Move to higher ground? Build a boat to ride it out? Or do you turn your back on it, play on t...
So after some time away, during which I devoured the Toby Daye books- love them all, I finally returned to Parable of the Sower. I needed that time away to put distance between myself and the horrors of that world, specifically the horrors of the night Lauren lost everything. I picked to book back...
For this pleasure reader, there wasn't much pleasure in reading this book. Even still, I was compelled and drawn in. Octavia Butler was a very good writer, and I am glad I did get a chance to finally read one of her books. The narrator, the actress Lynne Thigpen, did an incredible job. Now, when ...
Parable of the Sower is the collected diaries of a young black woman called Lauren Olamina, living in california in 2025, in an almost apocalyptic time. Lauren is a hyperempath, a inherited condition that causes her to feel the pain of other people she sees. Lauren and her family live in a walled ...
I read a lot of apocalyptic future stories when I was younger - it seems to be fully a quarter of the SF genre. Maybe if I'd read this one I wouldn't have stopped reading professional SF for nearly 20 years. It was published around the same time I started to stop going to bookstores. I keep writing ...
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