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Summary: slow start - good finish
Review: Not being Jamaican, I found some of the language hard to understand. This threw me off a bit. I also found the start a bit slow. However, in the middle the book picked up pace, the characters meshed together, and the book became enjoyable.
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Summary: Absolutely Wonderful
Review: Waiting In Vain is filled with the lust, torment, openness, and fright, of falling in love in a complex world. Simultaneously soothing and provoking, Waiting In Vain wrings your heart as you remember the cruelties of love. But just as the price of love becomes too high, you are eased into its rewards. Through a fusion of English and Patois, Channer pushes through practicalities into passion. Your soul is calmed and pulled into believing in the power of the first look and the first touch. You dwell longingly sucking on mangoes, laughing at the skanking on the sidewalk, and finally breathing when the boat comes in. For those who think passion is overrated this book is not for you!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Waiting in Vain is an excellent book. I was able to relate to all of the characters and developed an understanding and compansion for each one. Fire is a fine example of a strong, sincere man. My only wish is that there would be a continuation of Fire and Slyvia, they are perfect for each other. I would also like to wish much more success to Colin Channer on all of his next project, I will be looking forward to it.
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Summary: The greatest thing since cooked food
Review: I am in love with Fire. I would like to meet him; and I'm contemplating moving to Jamaica because of this. How could a man have so much insight into what women think, feel and do? I loved it. I loved it. Everyone needs to read this book.
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Summary: A fresh new Jamaican voice for the new millenium
Review: Colin Channer's book had me spellbound. As a fellow Jamaican of about the same age, Channer spoke in a voice that fired my imgination, stirred my creativitiy and had me hollering out: "Murder." He wrote in symphonic proportions, a symphony as rich as the palette of the African diaspora. He took me to the quiet rivulets of Jamaica and brought me back to the heightened crescendo of a Manhattan street corner, before taking me for a walk in the midnight hour down a country lane and bringing me to back to my toilet seat where I do most of my reading. For Channer language is an opportunity to tour the world. Colin, walk good boy.
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Summary: It really took me someplace total enjoyment
Review: This book was awesome and great. I truly enjoyed each and every individual character. This book was very well written and I can't wait to read the next one by this awesome author.
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Summary: Craft
Review: Channer's novel is a study in craft. There is an intensely considered practice of craft here--the management of plot, the control of disclosure, the gradual exposition of character and situation, the sophisticated interplay of tones and textures all geared at retaining the reader's attention. Not everyone will like the subject of Channer's novel, but none can deny the man's capacity to constrcut a well-designed novel. Caribbean literature is changing, finding new voice and contending with the new meaning of being Caribbean. Channer is one of those people who remind us that literature can offer us ways to understand our times. KD
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Summary: Well Worth the Wait!
Review: After having Met Colin Channer @ a book signing I was anxious to read the book and I was not disappointed! The book has opened an entire new world for me. I can not wait to explore the cultural sea that the book exposed has opened up for me. The art, the music, the places. It was a sensual journey from which I do not mind not recovering! I can not wait for Colin's next work!
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Summary: A beautifully written book
Review: I felt that this was a beautifully written book for sophisticated African American readers. The author has a true talent for using beautiful and poetic words along with great imagery. It's simply a beautiful love story written on a level above most of the other books of its peers.
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Summary: Made me want to me Fire!
Review: As a Jamaican living abroad, I could relate to this book. I know Slyvia and Fire- I know people like them and that's one one the best things that a writer can do; create realistic characters. I think that this is a good book to get non-Caribbean readers started on Caribbean literature since he takes the reader through Jamaica, the U.S., and England, providing them with a "global view" of Jamaicans. He also used very little patois in the book, which helps non-Caribbean readers. If you've read this book and enjoyed it, I urge you to venture out to other Caribbean writers.
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