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zwembadman 's review for:
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by William Kamkwamba
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
The book is very uneven.
The first section slowly relates life in rural Malawi. It is often meandering and, although fairly interesting, the point of it all is sometimes lost.
The second part, on the famine and the protagonist starting to build windmills, is truly great. It blends a captivating account of a country suffering with an exhilarating insight into the ingenuity of a 14-year old looking for a way to better the conditions for his family and the rest of his village.
The third and final part suddenly becomes a very superficial good-news show and replaces the inspiring narrative by a cheap attempt to convey something like the American dream in the best of all worlds.
All in all it was a good read, but not certainly not an exceptional book.
The first section slowly relates life in rural Malawi. It is often meandering and, although fairly interesting, the point of it all is sometimes lost.
The second part, on the famine and the protagonist starting to build windmills, is truly great. It blends a captivating account of a country suffering with an exhilarating insight into the ingenuity of a 14-year old looking for a way to better the conditions for his family and the rest of his village.
The third and final part suddenly becomes a very superficial good-news show and replaces the inspiring narrative by a cheap attempt to convey something like the American dream in the best of all worlds.
All in all it was a good read, but not certainly not an exceptional book.