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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

Chinua Achebe

Start date: January 1, 2017

Finish date: January 10, 2017

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Apr 01, 2008 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was amazing

Shelves: era-early-1900s, fiction, oh-unlikeable-you, historical-fiction, classic, 1001-books, re-read

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

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Mar 01, 2016 Una rated it liked it

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 ...more

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