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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780446606721
ISBN number: 0446606723
Label: Aspect
Manufacturer: Aspect
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: February 01, 1999
Publishing house: Aspect
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Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex--or design. He fears no one--until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu has also died many times. She can absorb bullets and make medicine with a kiss, give birth to tribes, nurture and heal, and savage anyone who threatens those she loves. She fears no one--until she meets Doro. From African jungles to the colonies of America, Doro and Anyanwu weave together a pattern of destiny that not even immortals can imagine.
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Butler was an amzing author and I look forward to reading the follow up, Mind of My Mind.
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Butler is an exquisite writer.
BUT, this publisher's edition is filled with errors---not just little periods, but repeated dialogue lines, and then half repeated lines mixed with other repeated lines, misspellings---son, and soon---HUGE difference in Butler's world. This edition sucks. Buy the book, just not this one.I usually endure publisher typos without issue--but this book is so messed up, I have to object. If I weren't short on time and money I'd buy another edition.
The story is amazing and I want to read it and not stop. Kindred I read in three days. This book is fantasy--but it is about people--not just "black" people, but people. I detest Toni Morrison because I feel she has this huge I am a grey woman chip on her shoulder. Yuck. Butler has no such chip--inside the book she is compared to Morrison. An unfair insult to Butler. Buy this book. It is about the human condition and slavery---we are all slaves to something or someone. I am actually using her book as an example of HOW TO WRITE FANTASY in my MFA Thesis Project in Creative Writing. Superb.
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This book is awesome. My favorite Octavia Butler book. I finally bought the hardcover after re-reading to death my old paperback.
What makes this book so good, is simple - the story. Doro, a man/spirit who can not die and Anyanwu, a woman who can not be killed, in a struggle that mixes sci-fi, with African slave trade, to early America, with an Ike and Tina Tuner type love story.
Unmatched story that is ripe for cinematic gold.
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Octavia Butler has a gift for story-telling. Anyone interested in speculative fiction should give "Wild Seed" a read. I promise, you won't put it down. Her characters are engaging, and even provocative. Creative, clever, and well-written, this book will remain in my library until it becomes ragged with use.
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The stories that I remember the most is the incest one. It was a ok read.
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