The Parable of the Sower
by Every once and a while you find yourself reading a book that completely freaks you out and completely changes the way you see the world around you. Right now I am reading The Parable of the Sower, which is a pretty crazy book by octavia butler. It's crazy because it presents this freakishly possible, but horrific futre. It takes place in Los Angles, places i know. Sometime when you read a book like this, the future that is created in the stories is barely believable. But in this book, this things that are going on could very well be happening in the future. America is in deep poverty and violence, drug abuse, depravity and fear hold a grip onm everyone even more than today. If you were living in LA during the riots, this book would scare you even more. It's so real! I've never read a book like this before, really. It's scary and frighteningly realistic in a way. I'm only halfway through with it.
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I read this book in my English class in college. Yeah, it is pretty freaky. I still have a copy, which I flip through from time to time. I remember reading it for the first time, and thinking the same thing, that this could totally happen one day, with all the mess that's going on around us in the world.
when i first glanced at the name of this thread, i thought Parable of the Shower? then i read it over and i was like oooh haha, silly goose.
my freind looked at the book yesterday nd said the same thing. illiteracy is a growing problem in this country. :P
ekulu, did you actually write this??
this journal? yea.why?
just cause there's more than your usual amount of typos and spelling errors.
oh, haha. i worte it kinda late and was tired
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Have you ever read 1984? I could totally see that happening, like if I didn't know the new system would come before that. I really enjoy books like that because it takes what you already know and then explores your imagination with it.
Have you read "Brave New World"? That's another good one on those lines.
Thats actually my favorite out of all of them (them being dystopia books). I think the way Aldous shows the oddities of that society through their sexuality is really amazing
ohhhhhhhhh, i LOVE brave new world, that's my favorite one too. 1984 is a close second though, and then there is the giver, the childrens version of dystopia...i guess thats what sparked my interest in the first place. But brave new world is so amazing, and so scarey too
my freind geogre told me all about the giver, i meant to pick it up.is it like they cant see color and some weird things like that?
yep, or feel anything...its a really great book...but its better when you're younger...but its still got a great concept behind it
ye i read 1984, and it was pretty tasty. i loved it, it's crazy becuase possibly the world couldve been like that
I know!! The way they had the economy working was simply amazing. Pretending (actually, a kid and I got in a fight over this. I said they really weren't at war with other countries..he said they were) they were in a constant state of war to keep the economy stable? Brilliant!
yea, that whole "War is Peace" thing. i thought it scary, but still kinda fascinating. i always ten d to think, though, how would christians live in those kind of circumstances
They wouldn't? "Christianity without tears, that's what soma is" according to Brave New World.
hehe. i actually never read a brave new world. by that time i had read 1984 and anthem, and that was enough for my already
dude, its 2003. you can stop worrying that the world is gonna become a dystopian police state with cameras in your house. 1984 was like 19 years ago or something.
That's what you think.