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... APPRENTICE. Giving my wife a number of books, nothing very new: Cathy Day's THE CIRCUS IN WINTER, Octavia Butler's PARABLE OF THE TALENTS, a couple of others. On my wishlist this year: Werner Herzog's film diary CONQUEST OF THE USELESS, poetry by Stanley Kunitz, a collection of ...

... m/savings/wRahJE9/"> Book 162 is Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler, the sequel to Parable of the Sower, and it was another fantastic one. Lauren has started a small community that follows Earth ...

... (or words to that effect, from King John by Shakespeare) Book you want most to read again for the first time: Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler Book you wish you had written: The King James version of the Bible--the language is exquisite.

Some of Octavia E. Butler's works are in 1st person. A few that come to mind are: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents Kindred Fledgling

Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler take place, oh , about 20 minutes into a dystopian future. In reaction to this terrible setting, the main character founds a religion. I also recommend Dune, Calculating God, The Sparrow, Children of God and A C ...

Parable of the Sower and it's sequel Parable of the Talents are gorgeous books, among my favourites - I'd recommend you read Sower, Tad, and see if its more to your liking. I have a thing for post-apocalyptic writing (I have The Pesthouse by Jim Crace in my to-read pile, and am looking ...

... something newer. I also just checked out their website and yeah, it looks like they don't separate out the SF. I did see Parable of the Talents and Woman on the Edge of Time and some others in the list of books published since 2000.

... Holdstock Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold Moving Mars by Greg Bear Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler Passage by Connie Willis Pyramids by Terry Pratchett Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson ...

I don't know if anyone has mentioned Octavia Butler's Earthseed series as dystopian. I read Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents and really liked them. It's been a while since I've read them but they seem to be of the same genre as Children of Men.

... citizenship and corporal/capital punishment, and it scares me. Another two I keep rereading is Parable of the Sower/Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler. They're very good books, but they're horribly depressing to me, and make me angry at humanity. I always feel terrible after ...

... in April last year and it holds a special place in our hearts!). I'm over half way through and absolutely loving it. Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler - this was a Librarything recommendation but I can't remember if it came from the Feminist Science Fiction group, the Science ...

I've also added Kelroy to my wishlist! I'm reading Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler. It's a dystopian novel, the main character is a Black American woman who is trying to establish a new belief system and way of life after something happens in America in the 2030s. I don't ...

... Dream Eaters A Grammar of Spoken Chinese by Yuen Ren Chao Luck in the Shadows Spook's Battle Witch Week Parable of the Talents The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Dawn The Stinking Great Lie Living Welsh Say it in Yiddish Many of these are books I've been ...

3. Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler I think I've read everything by Octavia Butler now except for her posthumously released Fledgling which I'm sure will be the subject of a future entry. Reading Parable was eery, I have to say, given the current political climate in the U. ...

Parable of the Talents made me really angry. Fool's Fate made me cry. I get quite invested in my books, and a book that makes me feel for its characters is generally one I say I like, even if it's written badly. Other books make me angry at a particular character or two. I like that when it' ...

Parable of the Talents was very dark to me. I like dank, depressing books, to an extent, but it made me want to give up on humanity.

... The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, followed by her Children of God. Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents (not 100% sure which of those goes first -- but it's a duology, not a never-ending series). Also kind of post-apocalyptic. Ted Chiang's story ...

... gives me the screaming heeby jeebies, for exactly that reason. It also makes me think of Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler. I rather hope it is the exagerration it seems. I don't want to see that in my lifetime (or after, for that matter).

... deal with the content, despite the excellent quality of the book? My current situation is that I'm reading (sort of) The Parable of the Talents. I'm entranced by Octavia E. Butler's style, but the content in it is so incredibly infuriating and rage-causing for me (due to the ...

Finished Parable of the Sower. Now I'm on to Parable of the Talents. I didn't know there was a new Uglies book. I'll have to hunt it up (I hope it's out here).

... you mention, especially 1984 and "On the Beach". Have you tried Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents? They're more along the lines of The Handmaid's Tale, in terms of being not as far off from our present-day as something like Brave New World ...

I'm now reading Parable of the Talents.

... in Seattle from 1999 until her death just over a year ago." I'd never have guessed. I saw her at a book signing/Q&A for Parable of the Talents, and she said she doubted she'd ever move. That would have been late 1998 or early 1999... not long before she moved.

I read the Parable books (Parable of the Talents and Parable of the Sower) by Octavia Butler earlier this year and really enjoyed them, in that creepy, gut-wrenching sort of way that made me want to pack an emergency pack and plan in-case-of-economic-breakdown escape routes. There's quite a ...