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Parable of the Sower
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Yes, but that's part of the magic of reading it! I wasn't going to say a thing on it because I thought if someone read this and went into it completely cold they would walk away with their chin on the floor. Because it's almost prophetic in nature. It's really dark, but Octavia Butler herself was prone to depression (I believe she said as long as she allowed herself to wallow in it). I've got the books and the audiobooks now and I am a happy puppy. I'm not sure but they might have also made it a comic? I know they did Kindred. Unfortunately Butler really blew up when she passed. I think she influenced a lot of science fiction ideas on the low. But also, I think she helped continue the fueling of Afrofuturism. Which is pretty cool. But I get the feeling that regardless of how she was born, she probably would have been a writer. She's just got that zouz.
I truly do appreciate it. It's very dark, but without being overly edgy about it, and how little she needs to to say to evoke that feeling, and for its portrait of people dealing with serious shit without losing themselves. but I could easily imagine someone who went in cold bouncing off of it, particularly right now.
Nah, I feel you. I think you know - it's good to get both sides of the coin and go in and like be willing to drop a book. I mean in general though, cause like - trust me there's been books I have been super excited to read and then when I am going over a line five times in my head and I am just going through the motions I realize "she is not the one" and I let that book go. But I am also guilty of re-reading because I have fun, it's simple, and always see something I didn't see first go round. i think I have read Two Serious Ladies 650x. I mean, I am overexagerating, but I also think it was the first time that I came face to face with what I consider the perfect typeface. Cause the edition I have has "Minion" as its font and hot damn do I love that font-face.
But yeah, no you legitimately are saying something super valid and I thank you for it =)