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Pouya Sattari

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Joined 1 year, 4 months ago

Author of one book so far, Tsel the Shadow of Death. Raav the Endless Famine almost done.

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finished reading Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

Peter Watts: Blindsight (Firefall, #1) (2006) 4 stars

It's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming …

Great hard scifi. Sometimes confusing, sometimes needed to look up a word, but on my Kindle it was easy as just holding down. Not that I recommend a Kindle over other readers. There were, I felt, too many twists at the climax of the book. Such that things were really confusing. It did help that the final bits were a reflection on those events.

reviewed Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Earthseed, #1)

Octavia E. Butler: Parable of the Sower (Paperback, 2000, Warner Books) 4 stars

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful …

Review of 'Parable of the Sower' on 'Goodreads'

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I did not feel invested in any of the characters, but I did find them, their stories, and the setting very interesting. In that way I feel conflicted about this book. Another thing is that I was always expecting things to get worse in the next chapter, as the protagonist realizes early on, so I was anxious about continuing before I would read each time. But because I didn't feel invested in the characters, as shocking as the events were I wasn't too bothered by them.