I enjoyed typing up the list and giving you my one-line review :-)
I think I need to be in a very strong place to read Octavia Butler
Yes, I know exactly what you mean: the first Parable book was a tough, tough read. I ended up gulping down Kindred, and had very conflicted feelings about the end, but will save this for when you have read.
(My copy of the first book in the trilogy has the classic illustration of Lilith as a blue-eyed, willowy blonde.)
Grrr aargh...
I really like that insight about McCaffrey and Bujold. I've still not read any McCaffrey, and I have a feeling that my time for reading them may be long past, that I would need to have read them at a more innocent age to be able to forgive aspects them (as I did with Tolkien).
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Date: 2009-02-02 11:20 am (UTC)I think I need to be in a very strong place to read Octavia Butler
Yes, I know exactly what you mean: the first Parable book was a tough, tough read. I ended up gulping down Kindred, and had very conflicted feelings about the end, but will save this for when you have read.
(My copy of the first book in the trilogy has the classic illustration of Lilith as a blue-eyed, willowy blonde.)
Grrr aargh...
I really like that insight about McCaffrey and Bujold. I've still not read any McCaffrey, and I have a feeling that my time for reading them may be long past, that I would need to have read them at a more innocent age to be able to forgive aspects them (as I did with Tolkien).