false <![CDATA[Roots]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175694113m/546018.jpg 546018 38 It begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author. The author is Alex Haley. This magnificent book is his. 2529422 book 1976 Roots total:5758|5:2999|4:1870|3:756|2:103|1:30| 5758 24979 7542 592 4 5 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Mar 20 06:58:06 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 07:00:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Mon Apr 07 12:13:03 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 16:49:13 -0700 2008 Gone With The Wind and the North and South series.

I love how it brings history to life. The characters are real and you can sympathize ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 02 23:41:13 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 02 22:55:49 -0700 2009 1
I love history when it tells a story. Endless facts and figures and dates are boring and tedious, which is exactly what "Roots" isn't. Almost from the first page, I felt...more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 18:55:15 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 20 00:35:26 -0800 2007
I finally picked it up 6 days ago and fin...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 09:16:59 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 09:17:11 -0800 2008 I put off reading this epic for quite awhile due to the size, but I am extremely glad that I finally checked it off my list. It is a highly researched, multigenerational story that spans 200 years of one family, the key ancestor being a Mandinka man named Kunta Kinte who was renamed Toby by h...more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 26 22:02:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 11:17:09 -0700 2007
I inherited it from a friend about 6-7 years ago and it's been on my shelf looking impressive since then. I...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jun 13 15:45:04 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 26 09:39:32 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Tue Mar 18 13:17:52 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 13:25:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 09 09:28:45 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 15 18:32:45 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1982 Tue Jan 15 20:56:19 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 18:31:59 -0800 2008
The story starts when a young African boy named Kunte Kinte is kidnapped and brought to Amer...more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 03:39:35 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 06:11:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Dec 27 09:02:07 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 09:05:26 -0800 2007 more...]]> 0 1 false false Mon Jan 12 06:20:36 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 06:20:36 -0800 2009
And it's been just as jolting and uncomfortable for me as I thought it would be, but for ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 17:52:01 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 18:00:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon May 18 21:28:32 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 22:17:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 15 03:22:07 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 11:05:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 16:14:14 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 10:43:20 -0700 2009 Roots. Alex goes through his family generations to discover a 16 year old boy named Kunta Kinte who was forced away from his homeland ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 06 14:52:12 -0700 2007 Sat Feb 23 18:28:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 08:41:25 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 08:50:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 1976 Tue Jun 23 16:46:52 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 17:05:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=546018