Thank you for your thoughts about the book. Both "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents" were interesting books for me because I only really liked them on the second reading. I think it would be interesting to see your take on the sequel. They really are a pair - essentially the autobiography of the founder of a new religion (as a former religious studies student with an interest in religious origin stories, this is what grabbed me). I don't like the sequel as much (the big reason is that unlike the first one, it has multiple POVs which I think takes away the single narrative focus on the first novel) but the first novel has more power in light of the second.
Thank you for your thoughts about the book. Both "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents" were interesting books for me because I only really liked them on the second reading. I think it would be interesting to see your take on the sequel. They really are a pair - essentially the autobiography of the founder of a new religion (as a former religious studies student with an interest in religious origin stories, this is what grabbed me). I don't like the sequel as much (the big reason is that unlike the first one, it has multiple POVs which I think takes away the single narrative focus on the first novel) but the first novel has more power in light of the second.