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geniusscientist 's review for:
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
I first read this book in high school, though I didn't remember any of it. Though I do know that this is the first book I read that talked about chi.
This is like . . . a 3.5. It's really interesting, but there's not much of a plot, it's mostly just all setup so that he can explain various customs in this (Igbo) culture. His neighbors had a wedding! This old dude died so there was a funeral, here's how that goes! Etc etc. It's like the first bit of Roots but for a whole book. (I always wish the first bit of Roots were longer.)
The last part is less of that and more of "the white man has come," which is obviously super depressing because you know there's no good ending to that. And there isn't.
Oh, but everyone talks so formally. That sort of took me out of it a little, made it hard to see these people as real people and not an anthropologic study.
This is like . . . a 3.5. It's really interesting, but there's not much of a plot, it's mostly just all setup so that he can explain various customs in this (Igbo) culture. His neighbors had a wedding! This old dude died so there was a funeral, here's how that goes! Etc etc. It's like the first bit of Roots but for a whole book. (I always wish the first bit of Roots were longer.)
The last part is less of that and more of "the white man has come," which is obviously super depressing because you know there's no good ending to that. And there isn't.
Oh, but everyone talks so formally. That sort of took me out of it a little, made it hard to see these people as real people and not an anthropologic study.