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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
For my next book, I am pondering Kindred by Octavia E. Butler. I bought it the other day for $3 from a Riffle email. (I also own Parable of the Sower).
When I went to add it to my Goodreads "Want to Read" list, I noticed one of my GR friends rated it 5 and the other rated it 1 (putting it on the 'worst of 2017 shelf. I will start reading to see if I want to continue before I add it to my "currently reading. It does come highly rated overall on GR, but I am easily interested in the opinions of other, and therefore want to give it a shot for myself.
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It's a very odd book. The SF element is completely unexplained, it just happens, and is really incidental. The book is really about slavery in the Southern US, and does give an impression of how terrible is was. The influence on the modern characters was well done, but I didn't ever warm to any of them.
I gave it 3/5 when I read it last year.