Queen

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Summary: I love this book it is detailed and is the best book ever!
Review: The book Queen is a great book the first time I read it I could not put it down. It is the best book I have ever read and I have read and I read alot. It is the only book I have read over 30 times!! I recomend this book to any who loves to read and if you don't love to read than this book will make you want to read more! The book is both exciting, and heartbreaking in many different and unexpected times. From Rachael Dixson

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Summary: The parts written by Alex Haley are good.
Review: This book is a travesty. The guy who wrote it isn't even American. He plays fast and loose with historical facts. The potato famine is in the wrong century. Napoleon invades Ireland before he even rose to power. There are at least two chapters that are totallly irrelevant. Why does he feel the need to give us a history lesson on Andrew Jackson and the Indian removal? Does he think the Indian removal and slavery are the same issue?
On the other hand, the parts written by Alex Haley are exceptional. It is very easy to pick out which parts Alex Haley wrote. They are well-written and historically based. It is just such a shame that Mr. Stevens was allowed to add to Alex's work. Mr. Stevens cannot not write anything but cheap, historical romance. He should be writing for Harlequin, instead of, ruining the work of a great American writer.

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Summary: This book will change your life
Review: This book was very well written. It angered me greatly while reading it. I am a minority and I understand all the heartaches and prejudice towards minorities. I hope anyone with enough sense will understand the horrible treatment that these people endured just because of the color of their skin!!!!! Whites have no predominance over any other race. Anyways, the book was very heart-gripping and also tender. I enjoyed all the details and it was very easy reading to understand.

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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This is one of the best books I've read in my life. Alex Haley was such a skilled writer. "Queen" deals with many harsh facts of the antebellum South without becoming vulgar. It is also an inspiring tale of an American family.

One of my complaint with "Queen" is the blatant misuse and fabrication of facts by David Stephens, who finished Alex Haley's posthumus masterpiece. The writing of Mr. Stephens also doesn't measure up to that of Haley. While it is a great book as it stands, I wish I could see what this book would be if Haley had been alive to complete it.