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  <title><![CDATA[Mind of My Mind (Patternist, #2)]]></title>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In spite of myself, I've ended up discussing and recommending this book to a few people. There are really fascinating ideas here - Octavia Butler is a champ at slightly extrapolating and skewering present reality and transforming it into a plausible, not so removed future. Here she invents a world o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29345257">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Aug 21 08:00:18 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was really really good. I just wish that Octavia wouldn't just drop the stories of characters we've grown close to in previous books in the series--Anyanwu's role is really really small and then her story is wrapped up ludicrously quickly, like in one sentence, at the end. Doro has more of a role...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68203059">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite author ever. She died just a couple years ago. I'm heartbroken because i wanted to meet her, shake her hand, tell her how much I identify with her work, how much she infuses me with a desire to write. i want to recollect all of her work and read it sequencially, I keep loaning it out. i ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53084402">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite Octavia Butler book, well toward the top of my list of favorite books ever, is Mind of My Mind, which is part of the Patternmaster/Clay's Ark universe. It follows Mary, daughter of Doro (from Wild Seed, as her mental powers develop and she actually creates the Pattern. Origin stories don...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65790482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62380711">
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[so far, i love this book.  it feels so good to read octavic butler and i have so few of her books left that i have not read.  the theme of female cahracters (or characters in general) that have the ability to feel other people's feelings seems to be a theme in her writing.  makes me think of the ear...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62380711">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29778862">
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Aug 10 13:49:15 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not reading these books in the order that they were published, but in the order I was told by the person who recommended them to me.  I can see that my experience of them may be different following these characters chronologically, rather than as the author had them published.<br/>I just finis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29778862">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39438778">
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  <date_added>Sat Dec 06 07:49:15 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 06 07:52:38 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first Octavia Butler book my Dad gave me. Easy to read, fascinating because it seems so realistic in spite of the science fiction label. Her description of the processes the characters go through to understand and control their power ring true. It is almost as if Butler opens the door to discuss...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39438778">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2633087">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book continues in to the present and future the strange things that were planted in a previous book, <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52318.Wild_Seed" title="Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler">Wild Seed</a></em>.  I really enjoyed reading about how the main character took control of her destiny and ultimately rejected the person who'd been masterminding everyone's future since ancient times.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2633087">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jan 07 18:23:45 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 07 18:24:32 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a little dated, and difficult to get into.]]></body>
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    <review id="45962749">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found it hard to put this book down and I'm not usually a science fiction reader.]]></body>
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    <review id="8568548">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have the vague idea that &quot;Mind of My Mind&quot; is part of a series or something, but I haven't read any others. Certainly it stands perfectly well on its own. It concerns a 4000 year old sociopathic superhuman, his human breeding program, and his telepathic daughter/rival. Butler is a master...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8568548">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is pt. 2 of the Patternist series (by story timeline).  It's short and intense, marking an important turning point that leads up to whatever will be.  Things are wrapped up for the main characters from Wild Seed and many new ones are introduced.  The themes of ownership and symbiosis are very p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11277692">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is pt. 2 of the Patternist series (by story timeline).  It's short and intense, marking an important turning point that leads up to whatever will be.  Things are wrapped up for the main characters from Wild Seed and many new ones are introduced.  The themes of ownership and symbiosis are very p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9239279">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read all of O. Butler, and I'm repeating my review:<br/>So powerful that it's sometimes painful. Truly brilliant page turners. All are intense studies of the morality of survival, and the  meaning of humanity. A common theme is the power relationship between  species or races, particularly whe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25134095">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32644036">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a great sci-fi book. The characters in this work of fiction are telepathic and are living in a world that does not know that they are telepathic. Their goal is create a new race of people that are all telepathic. In true Octavia butler style this book addresses issues of race, gender, s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32644036">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21347601">
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice start of career novel from Octavia Butler, one of the best sf writers of the last 20 years. This is a prequel to her first novel, Patternmaster, and she explores the telepathic connection and &quot;pattern&quot; of that previous book as well. We also hear about Clay Dana, who I think is Clay fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21347601">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17762930">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stefanie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 14 14:16:53 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[octavia butler has a way of creating surreal imagery that stays in your mind long after you've finished the book.  this is no exception-- devouring people through the mind, telepathic slavery and interconnectedness of alternative societies through mental patterns are strong ideas that keep you think...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17762930">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 05 12:51:42 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Octavia Butler is able to describe imaginary mental processes so convincingly.  The action comes before The Patternmaster, but after Wild Seed.  I don't this the reader is meant to like the characters in this book very much, but somehow this didn't stop me from engaging in the story.  A good book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoy this series, starring immortals and telepaths, but I think I prefer her series about aliens and humans miscegenating.  Anyway, they are fun, short reads, and mentally stimulating, and Octavia E. Butler is one of my favorites, r.i.p. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best book of this series. Takes you about a chapter to get into but then it takes off and you are off on a wild ride. It does help if you have read the previous book Wild Seed.]]></body>
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