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Mind of My Mind

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Robin Miles
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A young woman harnesses her newfound power to challenge the ruthless man who controls her, in this brilliant and provocative novel from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower.

Mary is a treacherous experiment. Her creator, an immortal named Doro, has molded the human race for generations, seeking out those with unusual talents like telepathy and breeding them into a new subrace of humans who obey his every command. The result is Mary: a young black woman living on the rough outskirts of Los Angeles in the 1970s, who has no idea how much power she will soon wield.

Doro knows he must handle Mary carefully or risk her ending like his previous experiments: dead, either by her own hand or Doro's. What he doesn't suspect is that Mary's maturing telepathic abilities may soon rival his own power. By linking telepaths with a viral pattern, she will create the potential to break free of his control once and for all—and shift the course of humanity.

©1977 Octavia E. Butler (P)2023 Grand Central Publishing
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More fascinating than X Men!

Amazing and exciting story about power, freedom, and social connections. Beautifully performed by Robin Miles, and incredibly multi faceted reader. Very satisfying conclusion to the story of Doro and his children.

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highly recommend

phenomenal sequel to Wild Seed. Octavia Butler simply don't miss, and the vocal performance is perfect

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Beautiful story but narration subpar

The story was amazing. Definitely a great sequel to Wild Seed. The Narration was not that great. The narrator could have done a much better job a changing her voice.

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Why did they change narrators?

I’ve listened to this book several times with the narrator Christie (or Christy) Clarke and I really enjoyed what her voice brought to the story. I felt that she was the voice of Mary and something is lost now that she is not narrating.

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Great story, Narration not so much

Love the story live Octavia. The narration has little voice inflection sometimes it was difficult to understand which character was speaking

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I missed Anyanwu!

The narration was flat. I couldn't tell when different characters were speaking because her voice was monotone.

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Fantastic (part 2) story and a great listen!

Robin Miles is now one of my favorite narrators! I loved the story AND the ending! It was riveting. A great story to get lost in about being who you are despite who you come from and how you were raised.

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Great story, mediocre narration

The story is great. Really leaves you wanting to read the next. You can tell that Wild Seed was written after this one as they are quite unrelated, and the depth of Anyanwu’s character is completely absent here, like it hadn’t been conceived yet. So if you’re reading to find out more about her story, you’ll be disappointed.

After listening to Robin Miles’ amazing narration of Wild Seed, Christie Clarke’s reading of Mind of My Mind was a big letdown. While not unlistenable, it was very flat and monotone. I kept losing track of what was going on and couldn’t tell who was speaking ever. Still worth a listen.

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Too Short

I liked the book. I wanted more but the story was full and complete.
I finished faster than I have any other book.

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Beautiful

If there is one thing I can say about octavi e butler writing is that it always full on beautiful deep character.

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