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Default Books you've started but couldn't finish ? - 11-01-08, 11:55 AM

I rarely start a book without finishing it, but there a couple that just couldn't get into.

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Frantz Fanon - Wretched of the Earth (Black Skins, White Masks was a much easier read)


As far as I am concerned - the black man's seed is GOLD and should not be abandoned wrecklessly © Femergy
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Islams black slaves: By Ronald Seagal
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Merle Collins - Angel


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miseducation of the negro by carter g woodson

i've started this book 3 times. i've made it halfway thru this last time....but that was a few months ago.
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Dianetics: L Ron Hubbard.

Got through about 30 pages and couldn't take anymore.

Too many thetans.
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Default 08-03-08, 01:20 AM

Lord of the Rings - "The Fellowship of the Ring".

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.


"Better than the cannon, it (colonialism) makes conquest permament. The cannon compels the body, the school bewitches the soul"... Cheikh Hamidou Kane.
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The Bible......
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Default 12-03-08, 01:19 PM

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The Bible......


Me too!

I had to come up with my own interpretation.


QuantumCritics.com - Star Trek Meets The Bible

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Ugly - Constance Briscoe,
I read the first 2 chapters and lost interest...I actually gave it to a friend who never read past the intro..lol
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Fruit Of The Lemon by Andrea levy - I was so disappointed with Every light in the House Burning, that I read the first to pages of this one and put it down!!
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Soul Tourist by Bernadine Evaristo
It began Ok and then went into some old english fantasy with other characters. I couldn't understand it after that and gave up.!
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Default 19-05-08, 11:45 PM

The art of seduction. It just seemed so cunning, I didn't like it at all.
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