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Title: Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler ISBN: 0-446-36281-6 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good Read
Comment: This is the first book that I've read by Octavia Butler. It was an good read--worthwhile science fiction--but I felt that it was promising more than it eventually doled out--it seemed too short. However, I understand that this book is part of a series set in the same future world, so no doubt she explores the world further in her other novels.
I like her portrayal of the characters, but I could never decide if I *liked* them or not. I liked her description of the world but I couldn't decide who (if anybody) I was supposed to be rooting for...
_Patternmaster_ is promising, but I hope it isn't Butler at her best, because it doesn't quite make it. Yet the story grabbed me enough that I know that I will certainly be looking for more Butler books to read in order to compare them.
Rating: 5
Summary: beautiful and spare struggle for power
Comment: Perhaps not her best, but I enjoyed this novel and have re-read it several times. The writing is lean and elegant, so carefully written that it can be perused many times with profit. Her notions of human speciation - and her merging with the themes of the mutated Clayarks - are masterfully covered and expanded, as are her notions of the power of the mind.
The battle at the center of the novel - the passage of power over a new mass mind of mutants - is taut and frightening, even as she must explain the unusual powers that are being wielded. Once again, her characters are full, first-rate creations that live on in the readers' mind afterword.
Rating: 3
Summary: A must buy to continue the series
Comment: Unlike some other reviewers, I wasn't too disappointed as to teh lack of a centrally dominant female character (Though this does seem to be unlike Butler's trend). Though the book is slow and moves you around as quickly as a TV movie of the week, its worth reading to see how the Patternists style of life transforms the world within which they live.
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Title: Clay's Ark by Octavia E. Butler ISBN: 0446603708 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler ISBN: 0446606723 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler ISBN: 0446676101 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler ISBN: 0446675784 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler ISBN: 0446601977 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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