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Summary: I feel that the book was ok.
Review: I feel the book could of been much better. I did not agree about the way she spoke about her mother because regardless your mother will always be your mother.
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Summary: Enlightening
Review: I first read Jamaica Kincaid's work in "Talk Stories", and I loved it.I discovered this book (My Brother) when reading the book "Writing as a Way of Healing" by Louise DeSalvo. I was curious about Jamaica's life and her writing style intrigued me. Through her writing, Jamaica brings beauty to even the most difficult of life's experiences. She writes, "That sun, that sun. On the last day of our visit its rays seemed as pointed and unfriendly as an enemy's well-aimed spear."(p.73) Her writing is honest and balanced between expressing the hard aspects and the kindness within her family life. This book is mostly about her brother dying of AIDS, a very difficult subject matter to read. I also enjoyed reading about how she became a writer, and what it means to her to be a writer. This book also tells about life in Antigua, which I was especially interested in learning about. The next book I will read by Jamaica is "A Small Place", to learn more about life in Antigua.
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Summary: Enlightening
Review: I first read Jamaica Kincaid's work in "Talk Stories", and I loved it. I discovered this book (My Brother) when reading the book "Writing as a Way of Healing" by Louise DeSalvo. I was curious about Jamaica's life and her writing style intrigued me. Through her writing, Jamaica brings beauty to even the most difficult of life's experiences. She writes, "That sun, that sun. On the last day of our visit its rays seemed as pointed and unfriendly as an enemy's well-aimed spear."(p.73) Her writing is honest and balanced between expressing the hard aspects and the kindness within her family life. This book is mostly about her brother dying of AIDS, a very difficult subject matter to read. I also enjoyed reading about how she became a writer, and what it means to her to be a writer. This book also tells about life in Antigua, which I was especially interested in learning about. The next book I will read by Jamaica is "A Small Place", to learn more about life in Antigua.
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Summary: Kincaid is amazing!
Review: I have read Annie John, and The Autobiography of My Mother. This is deffinetly Kincaids best novel yet. She offers herself in her book. This is what makes her writting so wonderful. Her hatered for her mother is caputered in all her writing and is especialy in this true to life accont of her brothers trajic death.
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Summary: Minimalist Masterpiece
Review: I read this book a few years ago and I still think about it daily. With My Brother, Ms. Kincaid has taken a very personal matter, the death of her brother, and sliced it down to it's essentials.
Lean, just like Hemingway.
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Summary: Not at all moving, touching, sentimental or interesting
Review: I stayed up late to finish this book last night just so I could come in this morning and tell you what a waste of time it is. She knew her brother as a baby and not again until the last three years of his life before he died at 33. So I should have known that a book about his death--because she never even knew him--is only, really, a book about HER and HER life and HER problems and HER kids and HER fears and regrets and struggle for independence and HER crummy childhood. Yeah, she had a terrible background. But this story and the way it is told does not leave the reader at all sympathetic. The setting of Antigua was the only enlightening part at all. I totally agree with the other reviewer who titles the review "take it to therapy." definitely! i will not read another book by this author, who i had long desired to read.
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Summary: I feel this book was not truthful
Review: I think Jamaice Kincaid book was not truthful about what she was saiding about her family it was one sided I feel we should hear her mother's side and give her a fair chance.
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Summary: A page turner but not as pleasing as I would have thought.
Review: I thought that this book could have been alot better than it was. In this book, i could tell two things--one that she hated her mother and cared deeply about her brother and 2) that her writing as well as relationships need improvement. Her descriptions were excellent but introduce her brothers homosexuality at the time that she did made no point in this novel. Her relationship was her mother was pointless and overall i hated the ending.
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Summary: the book was very interesting.
Review: I thought the book was very good and very nicely writting.Even though kinkaid didn't like her mother very much or at all she could have said a sentence that made her mother seem a little more nicer.
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Summary: What was that all about???
Review: I was only in page 21 (Random House UK edition) when I started crying, and thought, "What a wonderful book this is". Two hours and 150-plus pages later, after finishing Kincaid's "My Brother", I was asking myself, "What was that all about?" I have no problem, unlike other reviewers in this forum, with the interesting style used in Kincaid's book. It was very brave of her, in fact, to experiment. The most annoying element, I thought, about this book is the fact that all your characters are strong, dynamic characters yet the author did not use the opportunity to utilise this advantage. What was offered, instead, was clouded set of stories from an angry author's unimaginative viewpoint. Kincaid's brother, Devon Drew, died of AIDS at a very young age (he was only thirty-three). He was an intelligent, charming young person, and a dreamer who could have been something. He died, however, as an unknown, "of a disease that had a great shame attached to it." Their mother is a powerful and, at times, threatening figure. She, of course, is the central character of this biography (despite the fact that its title suggests otherwise). What she did in the past (The burning of Kincaid's books when she was a child) consumes a quarter of "My Brother". Now, these are two really "good" characters. Somehow, however, Kincaid saw only the banality of her world (and the world of the two), and, in the process, failed to bring home the bacon.
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