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Apr 01, 2008
Nadine in NY Jones
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There is no story that is not true. ... The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
This was a re-read for me, because my 9th grader will be reading it for her English class, and I wanted to refresh my memory, since the last time I read it was (approximately) 1990-1993.
This book didn't really benefit from a re-read. The first time I read it, I had never before read a Nigerian author, and I learned a lot. I was fascinated, even enchanted, by the diffe ...more
I read this book for my english lit class. We read it as a response to Heart of Darkness. I am still unsure what exactly my thoughts on the book are. The book is easy to read and pretty entertaining. You enter a world that is strange, different and so much unlike our own. It is hard to comprehend the way of life that is so unfamiliar to us. I struggled with the first portion of the book. I had trouble distancing myself from my own beliefs and entering this culture that can be so violent and lovi
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