![]() So has anyone read this book? What’d you think? Personally I loved it, maybe not as much as Grass, but I appreciated it’s uniqueness and vivid imagery. ![]() One particularly interesting idea is how it would be to have a god that truly “works,” which is not seen favorably by those who follow a typical god. Raising the Stones may be set in the distant future, but theres a strong sense of the primitive about it. The book is essentially about three or four religious groups trying to coexist (or not coexist). Grass touched on ideas like religion with some feminist themes, Raising The Stones takes these and wraps the whole story around them. While it didn’t suck me in quite as quickly as Grass did, by the end I felt like I’d been on a long, beautiful journey. While it didn’t suck me in quite as quickly as Grass did, by the end I felt like I’d been on a long, beautiful journey. Raising The Stones is mostly set on the small agricultural planet of Hobbs Land where the recently extinct native species left behind their mysterious fungus-based Gods that are affecting the humans living there now. Raising The Stones is mostly set on the small agricultural planet of Hobbs Land where the recently extinct native species left behind their mysterious fungus-based “Gods” that are affecting the humans living there now. ![]() While it’s technically a sequel, it’s essentially a standalone story, set a long while after Grass with only minor connections. ![]() After recently reading (and loving) Tepper’s more well known novel Grass, I decided to jump straight into her follow-up which is the second book in her “Arbai” trilogy. ![]()
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