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The Poisonwood Bible
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This is one of my favorite books of all time. It is set in the 1950's in the Belgian Congo. The story fol…more

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Stephanie
Aug 13, 2013 rated it really liked it
This book had two sides for me. One side is the stories of the family, which were strange and compelling and so wild that it's not even comprehensible that people would do what this fictional family did. All you can think is "No one would ever..." but I suppose people did and still do those sort of mercenary type missions....more power to them.

The other side was the political aspect of the whole thing. I wont pretend to understand the past or present politics of Africa and their independence war
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Katrina
Jan 30, 2014 marked it as to-read
saved for 2016 reading challenge: A book from Oprah's book club ...more
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Apr 08, 2012 rated it it was ok
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Kerry
May 05, 2012 rated it it was amazing
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May 15, 2012 rated it really liked it
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Katrina
Nov 02, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Michelle Adams
Mar 31, 2014 marked it as to-read
Stephanie
Aug 26, 2014 marked it as to-read
Valerie
Feb 13, 2015 rated it really liked it
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Ashanka
Feb 27, 2015 marked it as to-read
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Mar 12, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Jacob Hardwick
Jan 29, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Becky K
Nov 25, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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