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Go Tell It on the Mountain is a very powerful book and I can tell why it is on many must read lists. Overall the way it was written was easy to get into and the journey into each specific character was interesting. The focus of the plot is religion and the hypocrisies around it that the author had experienced in his life. So, know that fact going in if you prefer to avoid mixing religious commentary into your reading.
With the paragraph above you may wonder why I didn’t rate this higher. ...more
Go Tell It on the Mountain is a very powerful book and I can tell why it is on many must read lists. Overall the way it was written was easy to get into and the journey into each specific character was interesting. The focus of the plot is religion and the hypocrisies around it that the author had experienced in his life. So, know that fact going in if you prefer to avoid mixing religious commentary into your reading.
With the paragraph above you may wonder why I didn’t rate this higher. ...more
This is a beautiful, if painful, first novel from the very gifted James Baldwin about growing up black in a preacher's family. The language is poetic and captures the music and passion of the book's protagonists. Mostly autobiographical, this book put Baldwin on the US map in terms of hugely important writers. In it, you get a glimpse of how visceral and quotidienne that religion tended to be in the black experience before WWII. A must read.
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4.5 stars
How does one rate a book like this? Do you rate it by how much you loved it, how much you couldn't put it down, or on literary merits alone? Or all of the above? Honestly, I was more captivated by Beale Street than this one, but this book made me think and ponder and wrestle. There are so many layers to this story, so many serious topics tackled. Knowing that this book is semi-autobiographical adds even more to it, at least for me. To me, this is a book that was written, in part, to hel ...more
How does one rate a book like this? Do you rate it by how much you loved it, how much you couldn't put it down, or on literary merits alone? Or all of the above? Honestly, I was more captivated by Beale Street than this one, but this book made me think and ponder and wrestle. There are so many layers to this story, so many serious topics tackled. Knowing that this book is semi-autobiographical adds even more to it, at least for me. To me, this is a book that was written, in part, to hel ...more
I mean, wow Baldwin was such an amazing writer. This would have been 3 stars for me because of the subject matter (a personal thing) but for the words. Beautiful. Especially the last dozen or so pages.
Good period writing. I’m always interested by old stories that reference people living in the post Civil War era.
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Jaclyn~she lives! catching up on reviews~
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