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Summary: This has to be the WORST book I've ever read!!!!!!!!
Review: For you out there with nothing to do with your day, this book might be one one to pass time. But, if your a college student this book is a total waste of time. I was forced to read it for history class and it like shooting myself in the foot every page. Almost nothing happens for the first 100 pages except we find out that he has three wives and he beats his kids. GREAT, That took 100 pages to say!!
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Summary: not so great
Review: when I read this book, I never really got into it. The characters were sort of boring, and the parts that the author seemed to want to make dramatic were predictable.
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Summary: Juvenile and lacking substance
Review: I was forced to read this for a college intro to lit class and it was terrible. Not only is it written in a Juvenile manner, but the characters are annoying to read about. This story could have been told in about 20 pages, but streches out into a full book that finally makes a point in the very last pages. Achebe's work needs some fine tuning.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: This novel was wonderful. I could not put it down! The characters grabbed my attention from beginnign to end, and when i was done, I could not stop thinking about whether the change was good or bad. I am not Christian, so my tendency was to side with Okonkwo, but his son needed the escape and explanation that Christianity provided. The novel is very well written, and very satisfying.
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Summary: Interesting, but not fun to read.
Review: I just read this book for school ( I am a freshman in High School) and although I found it an interesting insight to life in an African tribe, I would not have read it for pleasure. I think this would be a great book for a book club or a disscusion group since there are so many questions to be pondered. It is also easy to find details to support claims. But if you are looking for a weekend pleasure read, you may want to choose another novel.
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Summary: small minded
Review: Chinua Achebe takes an enjoyable narative style aims it at an alternative perspective of european expansionism and colonization and succeeds only in proving his own small mindedness. Achebe crafts a precise and very detailed narative setting forth an argument against colonialism that fails to consider anything that might lessen its drama. The perspective becomes self centered and biased and its realism dies. The book seems shaped around a view point so narrow and tunnelled that even the very real and human aspects of the tale are distorted and lessened. If his were the only argument against colonialism Achebe would have gauranteed its continuation - thank goodness it isn't!!
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Summary: short and sweet
Review: This book is a timeless classic. Very short, it only takes a few hours to read but the author still managed to paint a vivid portrait of not only the Ibo people but also of the politics of colonialism. When read from a more modern perspective, the phrase "global village" has alot of meaning. The most fascinating thing about this bit of literature is that is gives a completely unbiased view from the perspective of the Africans. (Sounds like an oxymoron eh?) After all, you really can't know a culture until you really UNDERSTAND it.
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Summary: A PIECE TO HE, WHO BELIEVES IN TELLING THE STORY AS IT IS.
Review: AS A NIGERIAN AND AN IBO FROM OGIDI, I THINK THINGS FALL APART IS AN UNBIASED PROSE WITH A PURE RAY OF DESCRIPTIVE, DRAMATIC AND DETAILED TRUTH. IT UNVEILS DISGUSTING TRUTHS OF HOW ROLE MODELS OF VILLAGES, TRIBES, COUNTRIES OR EVEN NATIONS THAT ARE HELD IN SUCH HIGH ESTEEMS CAN TRIP OVER A TINY STONE AND FALL. IT PAINTS A PICTURE OF CONTAMINATION OF THE MOTHER, AFRICA WITH SWEET BITTERNESS- CHRISTIANITY. STILL, THE AUTHOR DOES NOT JUDGE OR CONDEMN ANYONE BUT USES A LITERARY POWER THAT HAS THE CAPACITY TO CONVICT AND LIBERATE THE READER!
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Summary: Timeless story in an African setting
Review: The Amazon.com review and most of the other reviews are missing the point of this book. The book's soul is not on European "colonialism" and its effect on the Ibo. This is the story of a man--Okonkwo--and how his strengths became his weaknesses, and his eventual downfall.We've seen this story dozens of times, in many different formats. Compare Okonkwo to the Mayor of Casterbridge, or Othello, or even Citizen Kane. This is a psychological novel that uses the European cultural invasion as a tool to examine the protaginist. Yes, the Ibo's old way of life "fell apart," but the book is mainly, principally concerned with how Okonkwo fell apart.
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Summary: An Excellent novel
Review: I read this book while at school and was impressed at the way in which the author captured the emotions of a man living in a rapidly changing world. As a West Indian of African descent, it also offered me an enlightening insight of the issues and challenges with which my ancestors would have been faced. I was also impressed with the way the main character stood for his ideals. A captivating and inspiring author.
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