Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) in Around the World in 80 Books

Jan 11, 2024 Camilla Cluett rated it it was amazing

Incredible book. The journey through poverty that I will hopefully never experience reminded me of a futuristic (but present day) grapes of wrath. The way Octavia Butler writes about pain, grief, and hardship is beautiful and incredibly heavy. She was a visionary.

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Sep 04, 2022 Nina ( picturetalk321 ) rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: usa, a-reviewed, author-black, genre-scifi, author-woman, z-read-gelesen-2022, theme-apocalypse

I loved Butler's Bloodchild and Kindred, and started this book with great excitement. Sadly, I just couldn't get into it. It seems to be of its time (early 1990s, and actually felt more like the 1980s) and of a mode that seems out-dated to me: an apocalyptic vision of feral people murdering each other, swarms of people trekking northwards along California's highways and a small band of found family struggling for survival. It's quite interesting to read a version of 'promised land' travels (and ...more

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Jan 29, 2020 Sunflower rated it liked it

Now that I have found out when this book was written, I’ll be a bit gentler with my comments. There’s a lot of dystopian fiction out there now, and it’s one of my genres, so this has a lot of echoes in other books- But in fact it may have been first with many of the ideas. I found that I had a lot of sympathy with the protagonist and her story, but became increasingly annoyed with the Earthseed comments and their quasi-religious and sometimes greeting-card messages.

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