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The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

Start date: February 1, 2017

Finish date: February 28, 2017

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Oct 02, 2023 Nina rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, fiction, historical-fiction

I am not completely sure what to make out of this book. Is it worth reading? Yes, I think so. Did everything make complete sense to me? No. What I did not like was how this Underground Railway was shown. Maybe that was just my misled expectation, but I would seriously have liked a little more historical accuracy around this. It would have made Cora’s journey more authentic. Instead, some of the scenes felt a little bit surreal to me, and I did not really like that too much as I was prepared for ...more

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Jun 28, 2019 Valyssia Leigh rated it liked it

Shelves: protagonist-female, format-audio, published-decade-2010s, historical-fiction, cultural-african-american, award-pulitzer-prize, award-arthur-c-clarke, author-male, award-national-book, nominee-john-w-campbell

2.5 stars

I swear, the Pulitzer is to novels what the Oscar is to film.

The gimmick here is what every seven-year-old thinks when they hear the term 'Underground Railroad.' That's it. That's the bit that makes this 'science fiction.'

The rest of the story is about an unstoppable bounty hunter who follows the protagonist from refuge to refuge committing acts of terror. It's really just so much torture porn.

Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters (a novel with similar themes that came out at roughl ...more

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Aug 31, 2022 Michaela rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: slavery, race, fantasy

Complicated structure and hard to read; also too many characters, and I can´t empathise with them, as they´re drawn so clinical. One star more than I´d given, due to the relevant theme.

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Jan 15, 2017 daemyra, the realm's delight marked it as to-read

Shelves: literature-contemporary

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Feb 04, 2017 Shirley marked it as to-read

Feb 04, 2017 Angela Maria Hart marked it as to-read

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Mar 08, 2017 Karin C rated it liked it

Feb 12, 2017 Michelle rated it it was amazing

Shelves: diaspora, tob, award-winning, oprah-s-book-club, 2017-popsugar-challenge, 2017-tob, 2017-color-challenge, pulitzer-prize, 2017, super-rooster

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