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Barbara W's Around the World Mostly Mysteries
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Subtle, morally complex, dark-dark-dark story of a Jamaican slave revolt from the perspective of women. Starts slow, takes a little time to get into it, but by the end James has everything so twisted into layers of violence and shades of gray that it's impossible to put down.
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Outstanding, complex, complicated. Probably benefits from rereadings. Marlon James made the right choice in sparing no details.
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That 'complicated' goes both ways. I am uneasy, as I have no doubt James intended readers to be, about the romance (calling it that because of character perspectives, not my reading of it). Then there's all that graphic, graphic brutality saturating every page in almost pornographic detail: this is a male writer using the female body (already subject to immense tortu ...more
But.
That 'complicated' goes both ways. I am uneasy, as I have no doubt James intended readers to be, about the romance (calling it that because of character perspectives, not my reading of it). Then there's all that graphic, graphic brutality saturating every page in almost pornographic detail: this is a male writer using the female body (already subject to immense tortu ...more
Jamaica.
Outstanding book! But be forewarned that it is brutal. This book puts you into the head of a slave. Horrifying!
The audiobook is superb!
Well, with one exception: for about 30 seconds they sang the words used in the text to a contemporary hymn tune. What??? Do your research!
Outstanding book! But be forewarned that it is brutal. This book puts you into the head of a slave. Horrifying!
The audiobook is superb!
Well, with one exception: for about 30 seconds they sang the words used in the text to a contemporary hymn tune. What??? Do your research!
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