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Parable of the Talents : A Novel (Hardcover)
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Parable of the Talents : A Novel (Hardcover)
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from TheAmpersand
I gave Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" two stars a while back, and one of my criticisms of her book was that I didn't find her vision of American totalitarianism to be at all credible. For better or worse, I find Octavia Butler's portrait of a post-democratic America, a frightened, fragme...
from KingRat
In the quality of the writing, Parable of the Talents was a notch below Butler's Parable of the Sower but just as equally full of good thought provoking ideas. I understand why Butler tore down what Lauren Olamina built in the first book, but I think story-wise it didn't work as well because the ...
from beserene
This sequel to 'Parable of the Sower' reads differently than the first; instead of only seeing the world through Lauren Olamina's journal entries, we have the added voices of Lauren's daughter and even some sections from Bankole, her husband. The shift between these perspectives is sometimes jarr...
from greeniezona
This book is even harder to read than the first one was, but it's difficult to go into why without being a festival of spoilers. So I'll just say a few things -- I noticed some people complaining in their reviews of Parable of the Sower that while Butler did go into some of the ways that minoriti...
from delta351
I thought this book was better than Parable of the Sower. As I read it, I had flashbacks to The Handmaid's Tale, in that this society treats women as second class citizens. A theocratic government controlled the country, and I interpreted it as another comparison to the Moral Majority of the 90's...
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