Mac's review
Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones
Mac's review
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Mac's review
rating:
"You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breating. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breath. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames." Well, this quote from the book reprinted on the jacket is why I bought it. Also, the clerk told me that it was shortlisted for the Booker, which is the British empire equivalent of the Pulitzer. Nothing better than a book about the transformative power of great literature,or so I thought. While there were some parts of the book I really enjoyed, I was bothered from the beginning by the fact that it is about the great white author (Dickens) and the great white teacher, the only white person remaining on an island somewhere in the South Pacific, who save the black natives from the violence, depravity and simplicity that informs their lives until the great white teacher introduces them to Pip and Great Expectations. Maybe I'm a bit...more
