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Jun 03, 2019 10:45AM
Please join us in reading this 2016 Man-Booker winning novel.
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Mike wrote: "Please join us in reading this 2016 Man-Booker winning novel."The Kindle version of the novel is currently on sale for $1.99 CDN.
planning to start somewhere mid June :)
I read this 2 years ago. I think I intellectually understood what was supposed to be humorous satire, but it never struck me as funny. I found the vulgarity off-putting. I would love to have discussed this with a mixed race group. I suspect that my racial and economic background may have hindered me from fully appreciating this book.
I WILL read this one this month...
Finally starting this one..In Prologue.
I could not make heads or tails of this one till now. May be once I enter the actual story I can..(I think, also hope)...
Finished "THE SHIT YOU SHOVEL" part.It was very difficult for me to get into this one. Review said it was a funny book with "Satire" element etc etc.
I am not finding it funny/comic/satire.
This one is just sad and angry. I am not enjoying the topic covered here or the but the book is good (Truth is always hard to hear)!!
All I can feel at this stage is, hope this has a good ending... :(
Pallavi wrote: "DNF'ed @70%My Review Here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
While a difficult read for someone who has not experienced racism, it is a brilliant satire which brightly illuminates how little progress we have really made in a quest for equality.
