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Title: Lord of Dark Places by Hal Z. Bennett ISBN: 1-885983-12-3 Publisher: Turtle Point Pr Pub. Date: May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Candidate for bookwine?
Comment: Manually pulp the book and soak the scattered pages in water for half an hour. Age well, and drink.
Rating: 5
Summary: Epic In Proportion. Kierkegaard Would Have Loved It!
Comment: Poet Emily Dickinson once said that there is no frigate like a book to take us miles away. Author Hal Bennett has written such a book that will send us off into the 21st Century, reeling from the poison of reality. The artist catches the observer looking down on his subject with a sardonic grin. Nevertheless, he has a skillful hand at storytelling and drives you wild with illusion, conceit, poetry and prose. While all the while reading this very brief epic tale, you get adventuresome when you stop to figure that truth maybe stranger than fiction and that this story is very, very strange. Or, is it? It may offer a modest solution to many problems. It is one of those, "you wouldn't believe me if I told you," stories. It is a story you don't want to believe, Joe Market and his myriad life of experience and self-sacrifice through self-indulgence. Not since Abraham has one man been asked to sacrifice so much by his God. This is a "Made In America" story for the strong stomach. Ultimately, reading "Lord of Dark Places," will make you stronger, because a sacrifice has already been made on your behalf. Nevertheless, at the end you will have lost someone, a person you've come to love and lust for at the same time. Hal Bennett has done the human race, and the African American male in particular, a great service! Aluta Continua.
Rating: 3
Summary: Tragic, Enlightening, Erotic, Saddening.
Comment: I'm sitting at my keyboard with a blank stare, trying to articulate the impact of this novel on my world view. This was a very intense read for me. Bennet throws everything but the kitchen sink in this book. . .. social, racial, political, religious, sexual (gay/bi?), and moral issues are interwoven throughout the plot. At times the author is actually able to connect some of the dots, tie a few lose threads, but more often than not, the sexual and erotic exploits of the characters overshadows some very serious and at times quite profound social commentary. I'd certainly recommend this book for group reading. . . the more perspectives you get on this one the better. . . .
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Title: Oreo (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) by Fran Ross, Harryette Mullen ISBN: 1555534643 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: MUMBO JUMBO by Ishmael Reed ISBN: 0684824779 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 11 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Infants of the Spring (The Northeastern Library of Black Literature) by Wallace Thurman, Amritjit Singh ISBN: 1555531288 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: July, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Black No More : A Novel by George Schuyler ISBN: 037575380X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 29 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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