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Summary: Amazing
Review: One of the best stories ever told. After the first several hundred pages I started to become a bit tired of the story, when I suddenly reached a point in this book and could not put it down. If you don't feel for the struggles that the characters in this book endure, you are a callous individual. Truly an amazing work of non-fiction.
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Summary: In depth view to the African American Experience
Review: I loved the book! It was gret Alex Haley is the master. I cried with the characters in their time of sadness and rejoiced when they were happy! I would recomend this book to anyone..
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Summary: Read it for fun! Really!
Review: I've read this book twice now, and loved it completely both times I read it. The historical content of the book is fascinating, painful and eye opening, and the characters are at once captivating and intriguing--people that you feel you can really sympathize with, whether you've been through what they have or not. I think that this is a great piece of historical fiction that can be enjoyed by anyone that has any interest in African American history or ancestry (not necessarily African American), because it is a triumph in both aspects. (And it's pretty easy reading, too...don't let the length scare you.)
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Summary: If you often wish you were born somewhere else ..
Review: Its a must read.. It has all the goodness of fiction, and all the weight of reality... You will know your way through the ancient African village, you'll respect their customs, appreciate their values. You will live a lifetime faraway from yours... Once you are done, you'll feel you know the family so well, you'd want to visit them and talk of ol' times....
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Summary: Roots!
Review: This is a great book and has been one of my favorite that I have ever HAD to read. It has given me a new perspective on the African-American views of slavery. A must read for any one!
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Summary: THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ!!!!!
Review: I just finished reading Roots. It was such an amazing book. I couldn't put it down. The book Roots I read had 729 pages but don't think that you can't read it because it is so long. It took me a month to finish it but I'm only 12 years old. It's the best book I've ever read.
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Summary: A Suprisingly Great Book!
Review: I'd recommend it to anyone! I will not get into a lot of detail, but it is a very emotional and action-packed saga of seven generations of a family. When I first saw its length, I thought it would be another boring book about American history. But this book cleverly mixes in fact with dialog and vivid description, giving it a fascinating story-telling approach.
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Summary: a summation of a too-common American history
Review: There is a scene near the end when Chicken George returns from his years overseas to be granted his promised freedom from his Master, who is also his father. During the time George has been away, Master, once a champion breeder of fighting roosters, has fallen on hard times. His wife has died, his farm has dried up, he's had to sell most of his slaves (including George's family) and he's become a fall down, drunken husk of his former self. Master was always a cruel man, but he always had a kind eye for George, his son and champion cock trainer. When George returns, Master is thrilled to see him. He has forgotten even what it was like to be successful, and George is a striking memory of better times. He is thrilled to see him, extravagently delighted, having likely even forgotten George existed over all those years. Master is feeling awfully lonely, so he finally unburdens himself and admits he is George's father. It is a sad scene, tragic, overwhelmingly poignant. When a book that essentially sets out to condemn slavery while telling exactly what it was like with no editorializing, can muster up the courage to put you inside the Master's head, to allow you to feel almost sorry for the old man, that explains some of the power of this work. I found myself, despite myself, sympathizing with poor Master, wondering what was to become of him. Then, and only then, after a few moments of silent contemplation, can you realize who it is that you are crying over and get back into the story. And while not a pure non-fictional take on Haley's own family, it branches out to be a likely story of most any slaves. How they got here, how they were treated, what agonies they went through. The only thing made-up, I believe, is the dialogue, because no one had enough interest in taking account of what the slaves were saying, so these lost words are gone forever, remade into what Haley himself might have said had he been frightened and had he been a slave and had his entire world been destroyed, forcing him into an irreversable situation. This is a definative history of just what it was to be a slave in America.
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Summary: The best Book I have ever read!
Review: The best Book I have ever read!
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Summary: a journey which i can never forget
Review: A book written about a journey a man takes with his heart. i believe it took alex haley 15 years to find all the information to write this book - and yu can feel the pain and agony he must have felt for his family through his words. If you enjoyed this definitely read his other book,Malcolm X
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