blitheringidiolect 's review for:

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

2.0

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This is one of those books that I had to read for school. None of the setting was explained to the class. It was just "Here, read this and do these assignments." To be fair, my teacher that year was just terrible. Just... just goddamned awful, honestly. In the end, I found it tedious and boring. Now that I know a bit more about South Africa, I could probably go back and reread this and get a bit more out of it. But I think it's honestly just been ruined for me. I don't know. I might still try. I've forced myself through some pretty terrible books for worse reasons.