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Summary: Excellent and Demanding of the Reader
Review: I was glued to this Book.NATHAN McCALL does an outstanding job telling his story.It was well written and I enjoyed the insight of a black growing up in America. I am a white man that also grew up in that area and know it took a lot to tell such a story. Ted Armstrong
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Summary: It's an eye opener!
Review: I rarely read books...if the first page isn't interesting, it's out the window. The last book I read wasn't even a book...it was a T.V. Guide. Makes Me Wanna Holler got me from the start and I would read the book again if I had more time. The book talks about the truth...how a young man's life can change in a matter of mintues. Enjoy the book and understand how that part of America really is.
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Summary: Our Lives
Review: This book should be passed on to as many bothers as we can get word to. This is a book that all can learn from, but it is a book that can save black lives!!!!I can't wait until I get the second book.
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Summary: Our Lives
Review: This book should be passed on to as many bothers as we can get word to. This is a book that all can learn from, but it is a book that can save black lives!!!!
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Summary: Holler will stir you and others. . .
Review: No matter where you come from, McCall's unblinking eye will stir you--and those around you as you read it. Before I purchased my own copy, a student loaned me a copy when I asked what was wrong with the books in my classroom library. It changed my life. I am a middle-school language arts teacher and I have been reading excerpts of McCall's book to the students in class to try to combat the apathy most of the students have for reading. It was actually starting to work. Kids began to go out and look for knowledge and make it their own--that was my only goal. Now I am getting flack from some parents. Keep in mind I am a white guy in a predominantly black school and community. My efforts are seen as "do-good" and meddling, or as dangerous because they seem to think the themes in McCall's book are not for kids. I think they are. Afterall, he seemed to point out that it was eighth grade when he started to make decisions without thought of consequence and it did alter the course of his life. I am not trying to save anybody or do-good. I just want to raise awareness and help them become readers so they can shape their own destiny. I need your advice! Please e-mail me: DukeExtr@AOL.COM --Ken Glassmeyer
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Summary: Compelling insight into the psyche of young black mails.
Review: Mr. McCall has written an autobiography that is deeply disturbing to read. It is at once insightful into the type pain that might drive anyone to a life of desperation while at the same time almost completely devoid of insight into why this desperate life need not have been McCall's story. The story unwinds by telling of a young man whose start in life was at least as auspicious as many others. It continues by telling how McCall did every deed that would provoke civilized society to hold him in fear and loathing. Throughout society's reaction to his life of irresponsibility is cited as the cause of his seething hatred of nearly everyone else. Eventually society enables McCall to earn his way back into a respectable life. He fails to see that his treatment proceeded from his actions and he fails to ever credit society for eventually rehabilitating him. He also fails to grasp at any point that the desperation was avoidable all along the way, as it was in the end, had he at anytime abandoned his self pity and simply matured like others before him and acted in his own best interests. The book does, however, offer an apparent "what" about the going ons inside the minds of some young blacks, but in my opinion is a failure in that it never provides a reasonable "why". The "why's" that are provided never appear to be personal enough to provide a rational reason for McCall's actions and indeed appear self serving and self fulfilling. Powerful reading that requires the reader to provide analysis that gives proper proportions to both emotion and reason.
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Summary: This book was so intence it is a must read!
Review: Nathan MCcall had my attention from the first page to the very last line. I felt as though I was in the book experiencing all the setbacks, wanting to scream at him and when he felt he was too strong to cry, i teared for him. This book is a must read it deals with everything from racism to power to growth and survival. I highly recomended the book to those of you who aren't afraid of the blunt truth!
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Summary: An eye-opening account of the hardships of today's youths
Review: This is the most thought provoking book that I have read in a long time. Nathan McCall has his finger on the pulse of growing up black in America today. He uncovers the truths and dispells the myths associated with race relations in this country. Any person struggling to find himself or a path can benefit from this fiery account of a black man's trials and tribulations in the "Land of opportunity."
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Summary: Great American liturature for the 21st century
Review: I first read this book because someone else I knew had the book and told me that I had to read it. Well as your friend i feel the need to offer you the same curtousy. I am a 16 year old Arfican- American female and this is the first time I've seen someone hit so close to home on issues that I see everyday. This book is a testiment of what is going on in America and it shows the result of one formerly lost, currently wise black man.
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Summary: Nathan McCall shows how the perception of self can destroy.
Review: From page one to the end, I was entranced. This is a book that the African-American youth can relate to, and if they can't they need to understand how the perceptions brought on by others can lead to the destruction of self. McCall shows that only through knowledge did he find himself. McCall also demonstrates what it takes to get back on your feet. The book is truly inspirational and uplifting.
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