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View Poll Results: Which Book Would You Like to Read At The Blacknet Book Club?
The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon, foreword by Jean Paul Sarte 3 13.04%
The Isis papers: The keys to the colours by Dr Frances Cress Welsing 2 8.70%
Destruction of Black Civilisation: Great Issues of a Race from 4500BC - 2000 AD by Chancellor Williams 9 39.13%
God don't like Ugly by Mary Munroe 4 17.39%
Beloved by Toni Morrison 5 21.74%
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Coltrane did a recent post about reading...and the idea that maybe we do not read enough...

Anyone down for having a blacknet book club...have a featured book each month and get online and talk about it?

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purrfect idea .
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I have just bought Mary Monroe "God dont like Ugly" and the second series "God Still Dont Like Ugly" (It aint religious folks) It is a best seller worldwide

what do you think?

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shall we do different catogries of Fiction, detective etc just to make it easy to control.



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@Soofresh...

I dunno, I think we should do one book of any genre each month...that way we get a broad cross section...and maybe people might learn more about a genre that they would not normally read...

God, dont like uglysounds interesting what is it about?

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I have not read it yet? but my friend recommended it?

The first book took me 4 weeks to hunt down!

The fact that it sold out , shows it is a good book.

But, you have to have both volumes to get a feel of the full story.

Otherwise why dont you choose a book, I have over 260 books dating from my first one which was "Yush, Excess and Yardie" 1996 collectors items they are LOL

Just tell me which book and I will go and get it.

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@Soosfresh...

Hunting down a book that both the guys and girls can relate to reading...

I am having a look on amazon now...

...see if there is something worth reading that everyone is down with...

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sooofresh jumps in excitment



choose "God dont like ugly, God dont like ugly"banana.gif

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I am going to put forward 4 possible book titles to kick us off...

The Wretched of the Earth
Franz Fanon, foreword by Jean Paul Sarte

The Isis papers: The keys to the colours
Dr Frances Cress Welsing

Destruction of Black Civilisation: Great Issues of a Race from 4500BC - 2000 AD

God don't like Ugly
Mary Munroe

If anyone has a better suggestion or idea...

Please feel free to add...




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Post imported post - 06-10-04, 02:21 PM
If interested please look at the post titled inspired by Coltrane...

Mods: if you can merge older thread with this one as the original title is misleading...


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sounds good

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Im reading the secret life of Ghengis Khan right now but too many textbooks and work manuals taking up my time so it will be a while before I get in to it.

I also plan to start this next one I have about China during the boxers rebellion when they dashed all the foreigners out...

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Post imported post - 07-10-04, 07:21 AM
Free: I think thats an excellent idea....I'm currently reading 'East of Arce Lane' by Alex Wheatle....a fictional account of black life just before the first Brixton Riots in 1981....

Although I've read the Isis papers & Destruction of Civilisation, It would be interesting to reread these books and have a debate on the content and relevance of these works..



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