This novel is about the rare slave owners of pre civil war America who were themselves black. While the concept of the book is highly unique, overall I wasn't thrilled with the style. However, the concept alone kept me at it and I enjoyed the tale. If nothing else it made me want to research this sm...
Coming up for book club. I think other book club was fond of it. Maybe pair it with finally getting around to Uncle Tom's Cabin?Update: And I could add [b:Kindred|60931|Kindred|Octavia E. Butler|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1339423248s/60931.jpg|1049657] and [b:Roots: The Saga of an American Family|...
i hate that this is our history, and that it reflects far too much of our current attitudes as well (which is why i can't seem to read enough about this issue). i thought the stuff about communism was particularly interesting as it was entirely new information, and pretty fascinating.
This is one of those books you either love it or hate it. I loved it. I need to describe it as thick. It was full of descriptive prose and it demanded that I become absorbed in it and I complied. At times it filled me with such deep emotion that I had to put it down. It's not often that a book h...
The Known World is an unconventional book, the oddest facet for me being the lack of a main character. Henry Townsend serves as a sort of focal point, but he dies at the beginning of the novel; equally important are his wife Caldonia, parents Augustus and Mildred, the overseer Moses, the slaves Elia...
Listened to this on audio and it was hard to keep track of all the characters and the time periods. Perhaps reading the book would have made this easier. I went through a period when I couldn't read enough or learn enough about the period of slavery in our country. Now I tend to find the subject ...
Slavery is an abhorrent reality that is hard to imagine being more despicable than what most of us have already learned about the "peculiar institution." Edward Jones throws a new twist at us when he writes a book about a slave-owning black man. Indeed, there are instances in which this did occur, b...
I thought this one was just OK. There were a ton of characters and with the hoping back and forth in time I found it a rather difficult read. There were to many characters for any of them to be developed enough and in consequence I didn't really care what happened to any of them. It is a shame reall...
This novel is about the rare slave owners of pre civil war America who were themselves black. While the concept of the book is highly unique, overall I wasn't thrilled with the style. However, the concept alone kept me at it and I enjoyed the tale. If nothing else it made me want to research this sm...
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