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Easily one of my favorite books of all time

Revisado: 09-02-22

I think the audio book is by far the best way to experience the book. The reader is clearly an accomplished performer and is excellent at acting out the scenes.
To enjoy this book you have to understand that:
The author purposefully frustrates the reader to create a psychological effect. As you experience the book, you come to enjoy these frustrations and understand their purpose. You also understand that your frustration is part of the story, intentional, and is actually GOOD writing, not bad writing or the author doing something in error.
This book is not action filled. It is about relationships, subtlety, and other such things.
This book legitimately plays out the reality of a how an inner city American community might function in response to an apocalyptic event.
The book is a work of art in the way of mastering show don't tell.
Know that the author is a person of color and this was written in the late 60's, so the radicalized language is a product of it's time. Also, the author specifically intended to name people of color at the time because science fiction was completely white washed.
CW: rape, underage sex, racialized violence

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Pulpy, insubstantial, unexciting, no big moments

Revisado: 10-09-20

Couldn't have cared less about the characters, tho the world building was slightly satisfying. I dont recommend it.

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Narration not for everyone

Revisado: 08-18-20

I love the story, but this narrator wasn't to my taste. his over acting rly ruined the book. He was overly enthusiastic, especially in the non dialogue passages. He also had very little variation between characters and cant do women's voices to save his life. There's no excuse for that in a book written by a woman and a book that so many women love. I'm sad I'll have to listen to him for another 10 or so books :'(

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My top 3 books of all time

Revisado: 08-06-20

I can't say enough good about this book. It's basically a feminist Dune. The performance is much in the older audio book style: slow and not super pronounced, but the reader does change voices for each character.
If you don't like feminism, don't bother obviously. It's tiring to read reviews complaining that this is a feminist book for having an all female society, when 99% of scifi is about male characters and worlds, dominated by men... this is a book by and for women, and for men intelligent enough to care about what that kind of speculation means to women of our world.

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Poor writing, a book for dude bros

Revisado: 04-02-20

I'm definitely struggling to finish this one. Definitely a boring listen. The pacing is poor and the story disjointed. The authors clearly don't know how to write multidimensional women, and they make an absolute mess of the one ostensibly gay character. Paul is slightly better written, but still highly one dimensional. Finally, which is one of the books greater sins, is that if you've just read or listened to Dune, you'll notice several inconsistencies in the plot and other details. The narration was good overall, but there was no female voice actor and the narrator did terrible female voices.

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