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    <body><![CDATA[I am a honky who enjoyed the shit out of Richard Wright’s <em>Black Boy</em>. And I have to think about this for a moment to make sense of it.  Follow me on a slight tangent, won’t you?  <br/><br/>Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once criticized the “war film” with his own take on the genre <em>Les Carabinier...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47676601">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i’m in the minority (minority. heh heh.) in finding this book superior to ellison’s <em>invisible man</em>. it might not be as daring, perhaps, might lack the touch of modernist irony, but sometimes you shove all that aside and recognize a great book for just being a great book -- something i defy all y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47885788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt something shift in me as a reader as I neared the end of Wright’s autobiography. Where he began relating his experiences of, and delineating his theoretical disagreements with, the Communist party in Chicago, my experience of reading became less interactive, less organic, and to some degree...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16623685">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[During some sort of standardized test in high school one of our reading comprehension sections included a section of this book.  It was the section where young Richard Wright (living in Alabama?) wanted to read libraby books, but couldn't check books out of the library because he was black.  Wright ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10726530">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Black Boy is the book that made me fall in love with reading. I was in Italy with my family on spring break and I was required to read Black Boy for my english class. This book pulled me in. I remember walking around Italy with my nose in the book, barely looking up. I made my step-dad stop in a boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13719104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a &quot;drunkard,&quot; hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who wer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37606531">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is an autobiography about Richard Wright's life.  He grew up in the Jim Crow South in terrible living conditions.  He was separated from his mother many times because she could not afford to provide for Richard and his brother, he was physically beaten, and verbally abused because of his r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37035158">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every so often I will personally discover a story (not just &quot;know&quot; about it), written before my time, that opens up a world of enlightenment and gives answers to questions I didn't realize I had.  Black Boy, the autobiographical memoir of author Richard Wright, is one of those novels.  Ori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50563467">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[        The book i have finished reading is called <u>Black boy by Richard Wright</u>. This book is an auto biography and is about a boy named Richard Wright who grows up in a poor black family.when he was growing up his father leaves his family and never comes back. Richard had no father growing up in neg...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45419172">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book I’m reviewing is Black Boy by Richard Wright. It’s nonfiction story based on Richard Wright's life. Wright’s main theme is the hunger. The story takes place in Natchez, Mississippi and around year 1921. Richard starts off as a young kid, who was bored at the time. He decides to burn t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42438231">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is an eerily familiar aura about <u>Black Boy</u> that makes it relevant to a reader of any era. Though the issues Wright writes about are to a number of optimists in this age bygone acts of barbarism--corruption, racism, sexism--the idea of the human psyche as a bilateral entity composed of both the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40026808">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Solfrid had for at least 45 years urged me to read this book.  I put it off for all those years thinking it was just another bleeding heart liberal book which was intended to make me feel guilty and/or love blacks.  Well, I should have read this book 45 years ago.  It is an amazing story of Richard ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80484520">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By the second page of this book, I had formed a distaste for this little boy. I don't care what the age of the child, the frightful action of this one seemed as if it could only result from stupidity, not innocense. Shortly thereafter, his callus harming of an innocent kitten furthered my dislike. H...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69914963">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Black Boy is an interesting existential novel that deals with a boy named Richard Wright. I decided to continue reading through part II because the previous part left me wanting more. I find it interesting to read because Richards way of writing is very detailed and insightful. The story takes place...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58045240">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>       The novel like recounting of Richard Wright’s life,<u>Black Boy</u>, by Richard Wright, is a poignant, captivating story of poverty, segregation, and a perpetual struggle to unite the human race. Richard is a burgeoning African- American writer in 1930’s Chicago, trying to find a means of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58028861">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The novel I read was Black Boy, Part 2: The Horror and the Glory, by Richard Wright. The genre of this novel is an autobiography in which Richard tells us his story about growing up in the South as an African American during the 1900s. I chose to read this novel because we had read the first part an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57974241">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don’t think that I’ll have to write an essay on this after all, so I talk about it some. First off, IT’S A HELL OF A LOT BETTER THAN NATIVE SON, but of course, first novels, like first films, usually leave a lot to be desired. Reading this book and The Destruction of Black Civilization were ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56821102">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Richard Wright. Black Boy. New York: HarperCollins, 1944.<br/><br/>About 11:00 p.m. on November 4, 2008, Barak Obama was elected 44th President of the United States.  After  eight years of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, our country was left financially and morally bankrupt.  We were hated abroad.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56131399">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[every so often i will read a book that is at once captivating, horrific, and inspiring. Wright does all of that. I learned much more about African Americans then I ever knew, and even during the great depression- a part of history that i had never heard about before. I am constantly amazed at the th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72236452">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My absolute favorite work by Wright - unflinching, deeply reflective, and poignant. Like many of my favorite reads, this one blurs boundaries between fiction and autobiography in expressing Wright's &quot;truth.&quot; And since I just bashed his posthumous work, <em>A Father's Law</em>, I thought it appropri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34858681">more...</a>]]></body>
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