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Read it. It was okay as long as you're not put off by the olde englishe.
I speak olde Englishe Patti! That's what they taught me at school
Then you'll probably enjoy it!
Is it not olde Americano? Bought it, whatever. Haven't seen the film
Read this a few weeks ago, harrowing but enjoyed it thoroughly, was shocked at how it was censored, damn blanked out but the N word allowed.
reading this at the minute cause im doing a bibliographical essay on the film and need to read the book behind it -.-
Giving up on this book,think it's bloody awful,loads of typos,wanted to read this first then watched the film,the film is fantastic throw the book in the bin.
I have read the book and thorough enjoyed it. The language used was difficult at times, but not excessively challenging. It is definitely worth reading if that part of history interests you.
Oh yes was definitely looking forward to reading it,but I must have been expecting too much totally enjoyed the film though,so I won't be reading the book any more seems a pointless exercise now.
absolutely brilliant guy.
Sorry but I thought the film was Cr.pFirstly, I couldn't understand most of their mumbling.
Secondly, it was r e a l l y s l o w
p a c e d.
Luckily the footie was on so I could check on how they were getting on. I so hate all the 'cameo' roles in the film - as if they're doing it to look 'right on' or whatever the expression is these days.
Yes, dreadful, appalling, but the same material has been covered better elsewhere (film and book) and the problem, as ever, with a film version of anything is that you totally miss out on what the guy is actually thinking. Which in this case would have been of considerable interest. Yep, as Eastwood says , brilliant guy - but oh dear they let him down.
I might go back and try reading it again but it just wasn't for me. I always feel a little guilty at not finishing a book, this one particularly.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Twelve-Years-...
Hasn't 12 years a slave done OK in the film awards recently?
Anyway it is 49p on Kindle ....
First published in 1853, Twelve Years a Slave is the narrative of Solomon Northup’s experience as a free man sold into slavery. Northup’s memoir reveals unimaginable details about the slave markets, the horrors of life on a plantation, and the dreadful day-to-day treatment of the slaves from the perspective of a man who lived more than thirty years as a free man before being forcibly enslaved.
Written in the year after Northup was freed and published in the wake of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Northup’s story was quickly taken up by abolitionist groups and news organizations as part of the fight against slavery. The book fell into obscurity in later decades, only to be rediscovered in the early 1960’s. In 2013 it was adapted into a feature film entitled 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen and produced by Brad Pitt. Pitt also played a supporting role in the film, alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti and Sarah Paulson.