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Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 446
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 01:14 pm: | 
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Toni Morrison’s Beloved is my current one. I absolutely LOVE this book!
What in the world took me so long to read it? I had no trouble with the going back and forth in time [Ms. M may not like me saying it but . . . maybe my recent Faulkner reading helped with that. Not that I’m saying she writes ‘like’ Faulkner cause she doesn’t]. And I don’t find Sethe ‘crazy’ at all! But after all that happened to her and hers she should be. Such a tragic tale of love and misery is almost beyond the comprehension of this lower middle class BAP. I ain’t got nothing to complain about.
Guess I should see the movie too huh?
Got any “what took me so long” books? |
Emanuel
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Username: Emanuel
Post Number: 661
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 08:58 pm: |
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Beloved was a tough read for me because of Morrison's dialogue (i.e 'i dun seent somefin rong') I did find the story interesting though. |
Emanuel
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Username: Emanuel
Post Number: 662
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 09:00 pm: |
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I was like that with "Invisible Man" and "The Sun Also Rises" when I read them later in life. I tried reading "Atlas Shrugged" too but after 100 pages I was exhausted and put it down. And I still haven't read "Native Son." One of these days... |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 7445
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 11:51 am: |
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I don't care for "Beloved"--it's a good story actually but I had to see the movie to find that out.
I think it is a Man thang.
Every woman I know who has read it absolutely loves it. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 7446
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 11:56 am: |
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I was like that with "Invisible Man" and "The Sun Also Rises" when I read them later in life. I tried reading "Atlas Shrugged" too but after 100 pages I was exhausted and put it down. And I still haven't read "Native Son." One of these days
(Invisible Man at first was a difficult read but after several re readings I now have no trouble--at first I loved the book because of the good writing but now am having trouble with the utter passivity of the main character--
The Sun Also Rises is very well written but all the characters are real losers--Hemingway was a great writer but an awful human being and this is often mirrored in his work--no wonder the old drunk blew his own head off.
I like Black Boy much better than Native Son. Native Son is much more of a polemic |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12897
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 11:52 am: |
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I'd been hearing about Jean Toomer's "Cane" for a long time, and I finally got around to reading it about 3 years ago. I found it to be an extraordinary little anthology which lived up to its praise. |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1545
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 06:02 pm: |
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Cynique, Toomer's Cane was the first book on our reading list over 10 years ago (http://thumperscorner.com/Reading_List.htm). I had no idea who Jeam Toomer was and I was floored by the book.
I'd never read anything like it before. That more more than any other realy opened my eyes to literature.
A buddy of mine (an Indian Dude) recommended Beloved to me years before AALBC.com or even the World Wide Web. I throughly enjoyed the book. I found Beloved and Cane tough read. I plan to re-read Cane again.
I read Black Boy and Invisible Man so long ago... I was also probably too young to appreciate either. I recall liking Black Boy. I don't recall "getting" Invisible Man.
I guess my "why have I waited so long to read this" book would be the Holy Bible. My mother has been getting on me to read it since birth. However the Good Book strikes me as something one studies and references over a life time. It is not something you plow through like an over due high school assignment. |
Thumper
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Username: Thumper
Post Number: 662
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 04:35 pm: |
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Hello,
I don't know if I have ever been in this particular predicament. I can't say that its one particular book or not, but I do know that I have a phobia about thick books. I will put off reading one of them suckas. I'm getting over it. I'm in the middle of Stephen Carter's new one. It is actually turning out to be a very good read. Just the fact that I can read the book and not be put to sleep is a couple of achievements. I would have been done with it, but I'm on-call this week. |
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