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Summary: Great Read One of my fav. O.Butler books
Review: I enjoyed this book very much. They way she introduced each character was like starting a new book. They each seem unrelated but all have a strong power that connects them. I highly reccomend this book.
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Summary: Wonderfully rich and involving.
Review: I first read this book after I'd gotten acquainted with Butler's work by reading Parable of the Sower, which is my favorite book to date. When I read this book I was enthralled. I immediately loved it, and wanted to read the others in the series.Mary, the main character is a well rouded character, though not as 'full bodied' as the main character of Parable of the Sower. Her struggle into adulthood and her struggle from being a latent to being an active, is almost as gripping as her struggle with her creator, her erstwhile God, her father: Doro. This is a gripping tale which leaves you gasping for more. It is insightfull, well written, and it seems easy. It isn't quite as simple and easy as it seems though, it has many layers, like most of Butlers books. All in all, this is a must read, as most of her books are (Lilith's brood would be nothing but a desert compared to this book and the rest of the series) I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I do.
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Summary: The most powerful book I have ever read!
Review: I have read all of Octavia Butler's books that are in print. I find them all to be both thrilling and powerful! Once you read Mind of My Mind - you're hooked!
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Summary: A sequel to Wild Seed, though written earlier
Review: I very much enjoyed this book, but I don't think it's Butler's best--if you haven't read anything by her, I would strongly recommend starting with Wild Seed--her style in that later book is stronger and the characters more richly developed. (Not to mention that it is set before Mind of My Mind, with some of the same characters, though written afterwards.) That said, I would certainly encourage people to read Mind of My Mind--and all of Butler's books. The many glowing reviews on Amazon.com are not mistaken.
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Summary: An excellent read!!
Review: The characters of the novel are vivid, and the plot is well developed. The reader is drawn in by a fascinating world
in which a "new" breed of humanity is born, humans liked
together mind-to-mind forming the ultimate community. The
evolution of this community draws the reader deeper and
deeper into the novel!
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Summary: Good, but less than "Wild Seed"
Review: The first book of Octavia Butler's that I read was "Wild Seed" and I think that is extraordinary, both in technique and content. "Mind of My Mind" was next on my list, and it did not quite meet the same standard. It is certainly technically fine, and many important issues are explored, most notably the use and abuse of power and superiority, but it drags in a few spots and had a depressive feel at times. I still recommend it, but it would be nice if this book could be read before "Wild Seed". However, I think that reading it first might be confusing, as it is a continuation of the character-life-stories presented in "Wild Seed".
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Summary: Good, but less than "Wild Seed"
Review: The first book of Octavia Butler's that I read was "Wild Seed" and I think that is extraordinary, both in technique and content. "Mind of My Mind" was next on my list, and it did not quite meet the same standard. It is certainly technically fine, and many important issues are explored, most notably the use and abuse of power and superiority, but it drags in a few spots and had a depressive feel at times. I still recommend it, but it would be nice if this book could be read before "Wild Seed". However, I think that reading it first might be confusing, as it is a continuation of the character-life-stories presented in "Wild Seed".
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Summary: My Favorite Book, I've read it at least 5 times!!
Review: This book is great, I have read all of Octavia Butler's stories, and I think this one is my favorite. In this story, which can be considered the second in the series after Wild Seed, all of Doro's tampering finally comes to a head with his daughter Mary. Mary has the unique talent of being able to tie many telepaths together in a pattern. I think that this is one of the best written books I have read. Butler is really able to take you right to the spot, which is difficult to do, especially with science-fiction. Even if you haven't read Wild Seed, this book can easily stand on it's own, but I also recommend reading Wild Seed and the books that come after Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark and Patternmaster.
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Summary: Good conclusion but slow at some points
Review: This books functions as a conclusion to Butler's series about a group of humans bred to be telepaths from the beginning of time. The story continues some previous characters and introduces several new ones sometimes too many with too little information to allow the reader to empathize successfully. This book is excellent if one is looking for strong women or "minority" characters in social science fiction.
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Summary: Doro's Dream Realized, but at what cost?
Review: This far-flung sequel to Wild Seed follows Mary, the telepathic daughter of a badly-gifted prostitute prebred by Doro. It is the 20th century and Doro's genetic manipulations have been producing wheat and chaff -- Mary appears to be the very best of what he has so far accomplished.
Anyanwu is back as well, with a modern name -- but unmistakably she is the same spirited, willful woman, who opposed Doro in Wild Seed and moderated his clinical cruelty with a human touch.
Mary is in no fashion pleased with her gift; she is even less pleased to discover her father/lover Doro has decreed she must marry -- a man of another race whom she has never met. When her gift Transitions from latent to active, it surpasses any previous gift bred into Doro's get. Mary's mind weaves a Pattern amongst seven other gifted Doro-bred people scattered across the United States.
What ensues is Mary's triumph: she learns to truly love her husband. She wins the trust of the others in the Pattern who rightfully hated her for trapping them in the pattern and disrupting their lives. Before long, the pattern grows like wildfire, turning a ghetto into a community, and eventually turning neighboring humans into servants--little more than mind controlled slaves.
Doro and Mary go head to head in the final battle for control of the Pattern.
As always, Butler's characters live and breathe in the imagination, possessing strength and weaknesses, foibles and proudnesses that make them not only more believable but strike familiar chords to a reader.
The ending, as is customary for Butler, is vaguely unsatisfying, but diminishes little the overall experience of the struggle and story
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