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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2003 - 12:25 pm: | |
I'm doing about a 30 year re-read of Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land. I gave it to my son last Christmas and he finally read it. He thought it was "ok" but found the writing a little choppy and thought there was too much time spent on unnecessary descriptions. But his main thing was he couldn't see why it's considered a classic. I had to explain to him that the book was published in 1965 and back then there weren't too many books that #1 were written by black people and published and #2 gave a pretty good picture of what was really happening to a lot of black people in the neighborhood at that time.
I'm about a third into it and have to agree it's a little choppy - like several stories put together into a book. But I'm enjoying it and am surprised that I remember some of the characters like Sugar, Pimp and Jackie.
Crystal |