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    <body><![CDATA[This book of short stories has implanted images in my mind that I have never been able to shake.  Wright is an incredible writer that grabs his readers by the neck and takes them where he wants them to go.  These stories are scary good, and will change the way you see slavery and racism forever.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20906232">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a little bit difficult to say that I &quot;liked&quot; this book, but I did think that it was good. I only read a few of the stories (I couldn't bear to read all of them, actually): A Bright and Morning Star, Down by the Riverside, and Fire and Cloud. I would advise reading Fire and Cloud left ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63994922">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This one should go over well next Thursday. Lotsa classics, including &quot;The Man Who Was Almost a Man.&quot; The only question, of course, will be the old bugbear of naturalism: is RW's stuff too deterministic? We shall let the readers decide. One helpful hint I've discovered for teachers: make '...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14313722">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Uncle Tom's Children is a collection of stories about African Americans during the Jim Crow era. The title of the book, I suppose, is reminiscent of Uncle Tom from Uncle Tom's Cabin, which took place during the civil war. This is the aftermath. Interesting title, in that case. <br/>The stories were...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15112034">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book would make me mad, laugh, cry, and eager to always pick it back up to read more to find out what happened next. This one gets 4 stars for just triggering the emotions, alone. Wright wants you to feel his anger, sense of humor and pain. But it is his creative way of writing that makes you k...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45759693">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Native Son&quot; is a true tragedy - heart-breaking in the telling and beautifully written.  So I was sad to find Wright's real-life experiences buried in Uncle Remus dialect, weak narrative, and unknowable (much less likable) characters.  It is hard to say that important books are impossible ...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As soon as I started reading this book, it felt so important that I couldn't believe I hadn't been made to read it in school. Reading was like being punched in the stomach, but I couldn't put it down.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book so far, hoping for better results]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What makes this book unique is that it is like a story in some way. Telling about being black in America during the hard Cival Rights movement. I really cant say it met my expectations becaus i havent completley finished the book yet i have about 20 pages left. The book is so unpredictable. I do app...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8427971">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Children&quot; not &quot;Cabin.&quot; My least favorite professor assigned this book. He may have slightly tainted my opinion, but for a book I won't have read otherwise it's definitely a decent read. Could have a used a vampire or two, but ya know, what book couldn't use a couple vampries?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is like a time capsule into the public mood of abolitionists in the time before the Civil War. This book is incredible. It's sentimental and powerful and moral and historic. Holding this book in your hand makes the American slavery issue come alive.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of short stories by Richard Wright about the oppression of the black people during the early 1900s. The book is jarring, disturbing and embarrassing. I'm ashamed of our past. The last story in this collection left me in tears while sitting in Peet's.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the postslavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. Published in 1938, this was the first book from Wright, who would continue on to worldwide fame as the author of the novels <em>Native Son</em> and <em>Black Boy.</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[rw lets us know the bullshit that will happen during katrina in his stories about the 1927 MS river flood. i'm writing an essay on this topic this week. i think 10/17 is his 100th bday. stockton is having a symposium and essay contest. ladi dadi.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This fascinating and famous collection brings to life post-slavery characters in their full psychological and emotional depth.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've not read BLACK BOY or NATIVE SON (although I did see a depressing movie of the latter), but I did read this powerful collection of short stories for a short story class in college.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read most of the collection for my Modern Lit class and would like to go back and finish it. I really enjoyed it at the time. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this as part of St. John's Community Seminar.  Very sensitive depictions of the black experience in Southern America.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the postslavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. Published in 1938, this was the first book from Wright, who would continue on to worldwide fame as the author of the novels <em>Native Son</em> and <em>Black Boy.</em> </p>]]>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1979</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I used to love Richard Wright, and while I haven't re-read any of his books in hte last five years, I still remember him fondly.]]></body>
    
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