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anonyfool t1_j0978eu wrote

Reply to comment by profeDB in Kindred - Series Premiere Discussion by NicholasCajun

I started the book but could not finish it. The situation in the time jumps to American slavery period are brutal and feel hopeless.

I had recently finished Beloved so I didn't have the mental strength to go through the trauma of slavery second hand again, YMMV.

Had same problem with the recent Underground mini series and season three plus of The Handmaids Tale - I'm not that much of a masochist so it depends on your threshold for empathy/sympathy.

I liked the stories of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower/Parable of the Talents and the Xenogenesis books a lot more, because even though there is a lot of traumatic events (post apocalyptic), there is a glimmer of hope more present as well (even if you don't agree with the direction it heads.)

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TheBloodChildHeir t1_j0ab2l7 wrote

>American slavery period are brutal and feel hopeless. My mother got me into African American authors so I know there are writers who look like me as a kid.

This is the entire point of her horror/thrillers.

Iike you could say the movie get out is an evolution of her brand of horror, except get out ended way nicer than what she would have wrote, because the point of her books is to make you feel something even if she has to have something out of left field be the vehicle.

My favorite Story she wrote is blood child. Sorry for my rant, but I get super excited about her stories getting love. She's been shadowed by the likes of Lovecraft imo.

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