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dollykat 's review for:
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley
The first quarter of the book gets 4 stars. The scenes in Africa were fascinating, intense, really interesting and kept me turning the pages. The rest of the book brings it down to 1, and I couldn't even finish it beyond half way. Unfortunatley when Kunta Kinte ends up on the plantation we get dialogue like this:
"Oh, Lawd, I jes' even hates to think back on it. Po' li'l pretty Missis Priscilla weren't hardly no bigger'n a bird. Walkin' roun' here every day singin' to herself an' smilin' at me an' pattin' herself, jes waitin' for her baby's time. an' den dat mornin' jes' ascreamin' and finally dyin', her an' de li'l baby gal, too! Look like I ain't hardly seen po' massa do no smilin' since - leastaways not 'til dis here li'l Missy Anne."
So annoying, distracting and difficult to read.
I wish, wish, wish I could have access to a slave dialect vernacular remover and run 'Roots' through it. I love the story and I loved the TV series.
Because of this I am relegating 'Roots' to the 'unfinished' shelf.
"Oh, Lawd, I jes' even hates to think back on it. Po' li'l pretty Missis Priscilla weren't hardly no bigger'n a bird. Walkin' roun' here every day singin' to herself an' smilin' at me an' pattin' herself, jes waitin' for her baby's time. an' den dat mornin' jes' ascreamin' and finally dyin', her an' de li'l baby gal, too! Look like I ain't hardly seen po' massa do no smilin' since - leastaways not 'til dis here li'l Missy Anne."
So annoying, distracting and difficult to read.
I wish, wish, wish I could have access to a slave dialect vernacular remover and run 'Roots' through it. I love the story and I loved the TV series.
Because of this I am relegating 'Roots' to the 'unfinished' shelf.