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Title: Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL ISBN: 0-345-40112-3 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 June, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.79 (43 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A very good novel that should have been great
Comment: "Your Blues Ain't Like Mine" is an ambitious novel. It begins with the murder of an African-American teenager in rural Mississippi in the 1950's. It then follows the boy's family, the family of the murderers, and other citizens of that small Mississippi town, for the next 40 years or so. Many of the Blacks in the story move north to Chicago during this period. So the story describes not only the social and political changes in the deep South during those years, but also the experience of those who exchanged the seething racism of Mississippi for the northern big-city ghettos.
In choosing to portray such a vast - and critically important - period of American history, the author set herself a daunting task. There is a tremendous amount of material to cover in a novel like this. And the job can't be done thoroughly in 460 paperback pages. The author often condenses a major change in a character's lifestyle or philosophy into a single paragraph or even a single sentence.
The characters are well chosen and sympathetic (except the characters who weren't intended to be sympathetic), and the book is well written and well plotted. But for myself, I found myself wanting much more than Ms. Campbell was giving me. I suppose that a 1200-page novel wouldn't have sold nearly as well as this shorter one. But a 1200-page novel, on the same subject and by the same author, might have been a historically great achievement.
Rating: 5
Summary: Now you know why Your Blues Ain't Like Mine.
Comment: This book is a definate must have. From the opening line to
the last sentance, Campbell keeps you interested in the
lives of her characters. Although fiction, this book speaks
of the lives of many Black southerners including the mass
exodus to Chicago as well as those who stayed to endure the
hardships of being Black in the South. The contrast of the
lives of "upper" and "lower" class white southerners put an
all too real spin on the views of society. Some of these
views are still in place today. The family of Armstrong Todd
showed us that a united family can achieve. They also showed
us that without that unity the family would surely fall.
The intersection of the lives of Ida and Clayton made the
story complete in the lives of southern america. It has been
several months since I read the book and it is still the
first book I recommend to my fellow bookworms. My one rule
for reading a book is that, "If I can put it down and don't
remember to pick it up again, it is not worth reading". I
picked up this book time and time again. In fact, it was
harder putting it down.
I usually enjoy horror (anything by Stehpen King). The
descriptive styles of writing in both authors are similar.
I was simply pulled into the lives of the characters of the
story. Well done Ms. Campbell...well done!
Rating: 4
Summary: An excellent story told from various veiw points
Comment: I found this story to very interesting and attention grabbing. I did not read the book, but listened to it on tape which made it even more intriging because they told the story from two perspectives ( a white voice and a black voice). This story told life from various aspects such as the life of blacks in the rural south, those of blacks in up north, and those of whites in the south. It showed different time frames and what time can do to an environment and the changes that are made as far as race and sexism. It potrayed African Americans as whites viewed them in the 1950's which is inferior. As time moved on, instead of blacks working for whites, they worked with whites and voiced their minds more as the story progressed into more modern days.
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Title: Living in America by Roshni Rustomji-Kerns, Rashmi Sharma ISBN: 0813323789 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Riot: A Love Story by Shashi Tharoor ISBN: 1559706457 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 16 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin ISBN: 067974472X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie ISBN: 0140157379 Publisher: Granta Books Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Brothers and Sisters by Bebe Moore Campbell ISBN: 0425149404 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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