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jaimcham 's review for:
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
by Isak Dinesen
This woman knew how to slap a sentence together.
Also, this is testament to how important it is to give a book a second, third, or even fourth chance: I started Out of Africa on three separate occasions over the course of several years and couldn't make any headway. I didn't get it, I didn't like it, I felt like her prose was too heavy, and I had no visual context for what she was describing. But then, years later, when I picked it up in Tanzania, it flowed through me like water -- and I have never, before or since, had a reading experience so powerful. My life was mirroring the book, the book was mirroring my life, and her lyricism was my lyricism.
So basically, if you can, be in East Africa when you read this.
Also, this is testament to how important it is to give a book a second, third, or even fourth chance: I started Out of Africa on three separate occasions over the course of several years and couldn't make any headway. I didn't get it, I didn't like it, I felt like her prose was too heavy, and I had no visual context for what she was describing. But then, years later, when I picked it up in Tanzania, it flowed through me like water -- and I have never, before or since, had a reading experience so powerful. My life was mirroring the book, the book was mirroring my life, and her lyricism was my lyricism.
So basically, if you can, be in East Africa when you read this.