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Mar 20, 2009
The FountainPenDiva, Old school geek chick and lover of teddy bears
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it was amazing
When I read this back in the 1980's, I didn't think black people wrote science-fiction. Of course, I didn't know that Samuel Delany (another favourite of mine) was black. It seemed the publishers went out of their way to "whitewash" him (not to mention he's also a gay man).
Kindred began my life-long admiration of Octavia Butler and I still feel a deep kinship with this woman whose life in some ways mirrored my own.
It's a time-travel novel that doesn't focus on the time-travel aspect. Instead, w ...more
Kindred began my life-long admiration of Octavia Butler and I still feel a deep kinship with this woman whose life in some ways mirrored my own.
It's a time-travel novel that doesn't focus on the time-travel aspect. Instead, w ...more
I can't believe I'm just now reading this book. Butler's Wold Seed is one of my favorite books. This book is almost better than Wild Seed. It's hard to choose.
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I found this book pretty gut wrenching. This was especially true since I saw 12 years a slave not too long ago so had some very vivid visuals still stuck in my head to go with some of the scenes.
Dana is stuck going back and forth from her present life to the time when her ancestors were slaves. She finds that her notions about slavery were not completely wrong, but that she didn't have a full picture. It was interesting to see slavery through a modern character's eyes. It was especially powerfu ...more
Dana is stuck going back and forth from her present life to the time when her ancestors were slaves. She finds that her notions about slavery were not completely wrong, but that she didn't have a full picture. It was interesting to see slavery through a modern character's eyes. It was especially powerfu ...more
Liked it more than fledgling but less than wild seed.
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Reread it. Still heavy.
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