Dear reading group members,
Parable of Talents by Octavia E. Butler seems to be quite the appealing book (to me). I am not sure if you guys have caught up to the fist checkpoint mark (first chunk or third of the novel), but I will begin giving my opinion on it whether you have or not. At first I was a bit confused in what tense the book was taking place in. All that I knew for the first few days of reading this book was that there was a women living in a post-apocalyptic world. The next time I decided to continue reading, I reread/skimmed over what I read on the first day (including the prologue). That helped me a lot. Now I know that the main character is Lauren Oya Olamina Bankole. She is the one that is telling her first person views and narrating in the sections that are given a date. The bold sections of the book are like little annotations or opinions written by "Olamina's" daughter. She gives a little bit of background information from time to time to help the reader out. Usually Olamina's daughter would give a little background history when a new character was introduced. After I started to understand the cycle of how this works, it benefited my understanding of the plot.
The story gets pretty intense and dark at some points. I sometimes relate the carnage and gore that is displayed in this book to some sort of violent rated "R" film. The only one that really comes to min right now is Children of Men. It is a movie that takes place in a world where the human race is threatened due to human infertility. But, I guess that means wherever there is chaos, there is violence. I am pretty sure that Olamina mentioned something about it being easier for humans to fight than to make peace.
P.S. If you guys have any questions, please leave them in the comment section so I can try my best in giving an answer of my own.
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