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1.21k reviews for:
Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
Ron Stallworth
3.57 AVERAGE
1.21k reviews for:
Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
Ron Stallworth
3.57 AVERAGE
2 1/2 stars. This book is so frustrating! It’s such an amazing story and I can’t wait to see the movie but it is so poorly written. There was no editing. It had so much potential! Ugh!
It wss an interesting story but the writing bored me a bit as others have said. I struggled to finish. I felt like I would have preferred this in documentary form.
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While this book won’t win awards for writing style, it’s a really interesting story and one that can be rather humorous at times. The writing is dry, very report like (after all, the author was a cop, that’s how they’re taught to write and the source material was based off of his undercover work reports). It was really interesting to see how the author viewed his experiences in a very white-dominated area as the first Black man in the police force in Colorado Springs- it’s no surprise that it’s complicated.
If you can work your way through the sometimes dry writing style, you’re in for a fascinating story.
If you can work your way through the sometimes dry writing style, you’re in for a fascinating story.
A fast read about an interesting undercover investigation--but ultimately the story falls flat without the kind of embellishment fiction (or film) can deliver. The writing is serviceable, but I agree with other reviewers that it would have benefited from a ghostwriter.
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Loved the story itself, but found it difficult to stay engaged due to the writing style.
interesting memoir of a black undercover policeman who leads an investigation into the KKK in Colorado Springs in 1978-79.