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A review by nicole_reads_everything
Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou
2.0
Around the World Reading Challenge: CONGO
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I was super curious about this one, but I'm not sure I really 'got' it, or understood the point. It's a fairly short book that covers ~30 years of the main character's life, and I found the pacing to be really off. Perhaps this was intentional, but the passage of time is really muddy and I was often super unclear when certain events where happening, especially because the narrative jumps around a lot. I never really felt like I got to know Moses at all, such that I never really connected with him or what he was going through. There was also a super graphic and fucked-up description of murdering and eating a cat, which was almost enough to make me light this book on fire, it was so horrifying. Some interesting bits, but this didn't really feel complete to me.
Merged review:
Around the World Reading Challenge: CONGO
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I was super curious about this one, but I'm not sure I really 'got' it, or understood the point. It's a fairly short book that covers ~30 years of the main character's life, and I found the pacing to be really off. Perhaps this was intentional, but the passage of time is really muddy and I was often super unclear when certain events where happening, especially because the narrative jumps around a lot. I never really felt like I got to know Moses at all, such that I never really connected with him or what he was going through. There was also a super graphic and fucked-up description of murdering and eating a cat, which was almost enough to make me light this book on fire, it was so horrifying. Some interesting bits, but this didn't really feel complete to me.
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I was super curious about this one, but I'm not sure I really 'got' it, or understood the point. It's a fairly short book that covers ~30 years of the main character's life, and I found the pacing to be really off. Perhaps this was intentional, but the passage of time is really muddy and I was often super unclear when certain events where happening, especially because the narrative jumps around a lot. I never really felt like I got to know Moses at all, such that I never really connected with him or what he was going through. There was also a super graphic and fucked-up description of murdering and eating a cat, which was almost enough to make me light this book on fire, it was so horrifying. Some interesting bits, but this didn't really feel complete to me.
Merged review:
Around the World Reading Challenge: CONGO
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I was super curious about this one, but I'm not sure I really 'got' it, or understood the point. It's a fairly short book that covers ~30 years of the main character's life, and I found the pacing to be really off. Perhaps this was intentional, but the passage of time is really muddy and I was often super unclear when certain events where happening, especially because the narrative jumps around a lot. I never really felt like I got to know Moses at all, such that I never really connected with him or what he was going through. There was also a super graphic and fucked-up description of murdering and eating a cat, which was almost enough to make me light this book on fire, it was so horrifying. Some interesting bits, but this didn't really feel complete to me.