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Joshua O'Hara asked this question about Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1):
I am reading this book for an english assignment and was wondering if the book was boring?
Hannah Holly I don't know how you could possibly miss the plot in this work. To call it boring is to call the Igbo peoples' greatest struggle boring.

I'd recommend …moreI don't know how you could possibly miss the plot in this work. To call it boring is to call the Igbo peoples' greatest struggle boring.

I'd recommend re-reading it a few years after high school...of your own volition. It's easy to roll your eyes at a book when it's assigned to you by an English teacher. I found Things Fall Apart particularly insightful, subtly humorous, and elegantly written. (less)
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
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