false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174754910m/435214.jpg 52397 15 59258 1993 Parable of the Sower total:2866|5:1182|4:1060|3:486|2:102|1:36| 2866 11848 3989 414 435214 0446601977 9780446601979 162 32 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174754910m/435214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/435214.Parable_of_the_Sower 5 5 false Thu May 08 05:39:56 -0700 2008 Tue May 29 06:12:37 -0700 2007 Thu May 08 05:39:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 435214 0446601977 9780446601979 162 32 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174754910m/435214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/435214.Parable_of_the_Sower 4 6 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 04 20:39:52 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 08 14:03:43 -0800 2007 Parable of the Sower isn't the easiest book to read. The prose is clear and uncomplicated, but the content can be hard to take. This is a close-to-home dystopia, one which I found hard to dismiss as improbable. And the world that it depicts is cruel and ugly. Even the well-meaning must do ugly thing...more...]]> 52397 0446675504 9780446675505 2633 361 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387743m/52397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower 3 2 false Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Dec 15 17:22:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jul 09 16:31:13 -0700 2009 1
Octavia Butler creates all of this in her ...more...]]> 52397 0446675504 9780446675505 2633 361 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387743m/52397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower 5 1 false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 17:14:25 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 17:21:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 435214 0446601977 9780446601979 162 32 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174754910m/435214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/435214.Parable_of_the_Sower 3 0 false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 08:26:21 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 08:35:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 52397 0446675504 9780446675505 2633 361 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387743m/52397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower 5 1 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 02 17:24:44 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 18:00:27 -0800 2009
Octavia challenges the contemporary thinking of what/who God is and even goes one step further to create her own religion. One of the reviewers (luckily only 5 of t...more...]]> 52397 0446675504 9780446675505 2633 361 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387743m/52397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower 0 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 04:31:14 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 05:35:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 52397 0446675504 9780446675505 2633 361 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387743m/52397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower 4 0 false Thu Dec 10 12:43:32 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 10 13:00:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 52397 0446675504 9780446675505 2633 361 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387743m/52397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower 4 1 false Tue Sep 15 11:27:34 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 11:27:49 -0700 2009
i kept contrasting Parable of the Sower with Cormac McCarthy's The Road and to a lesser extent with McCarthy's Blood Meridian. where McCarthy's The Road failed Butler succeeds extraordinarily--feminist perspective, social commentary that doesn't f...more...]]> 52397 0446675504 9780446675505 2633 361 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387743m/52397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower 3 0 false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 11:19:45 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 11:21:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 52397 0446675504 9780446675505 2633 361 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387743m/52397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower 0 0 false Mon Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 09:51:31 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 15 19:22:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 52397 0446675504 9780446675505 2633 361 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387743m/52397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower 5 1 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jun 05 09:56:16 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 10:10:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 52397 0446675504 9780446675505 2633 361 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387743m/52397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower 1 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Wed Jan 07 06:10:44 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 06:29:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2089992 0606192204 9780606192200 31 11 4.13 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2089992.Parable_of_the_Sower 4 0 false Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 21:54:06 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 17:47:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 52397 0446675504 9780446675505 2633 361 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387743m/52397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower 3 0 false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 18:03:26 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 18:17:41 -0800 2009
I found it interesting that in this book Octavia ...more...]]> 52397 0446675504 9780446675505 2633 361 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387743m/52397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower 4 0 false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 12:41:39 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 14:16:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 52397 0446675504 9780446675505 2633 361 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387743m/52397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower 4 1 false Wed Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 19:19:04 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 25 08:11:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 52397 0446675504 9780446675505 2633 361 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387743m/52397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower 3 0 false Mon Dec 14 10:04:38 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 19:14:06 -0800 2009
I remember a part in the book when a ...more...]]> 52397 0446675504 9780446675505 2633 361 4.13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387743m/52397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower 4 2 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 17:05:35 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 24 00:09:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2089992 0606192204 9780606192200 31 11 4.13 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2089992.Parable_of_the_Sower 1 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Dec 14 09:30:43 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 16 16:07:48 -0800 2009
She created a whole new world on our own earth. It is unfortunate she ma...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=435214