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Title: Black Ice by Lorene Cary ISBN: 0-679-73745-6 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 February, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.31 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of those books that you want to read over and over again
Comment: I've read Black Ice atleast 7 times in the past 2 years because with each reading I continue to understand how my experiences at a predominantly white high school have shaped the person I have become. I can not remember the exact phrasing, but there is one passage in Black Ice that sums up how I feel about my high school experience. It goes something like this: If I had left St. Paul's School the same person who went there, there would have been no use in going. In other words, accept that you will be changed when you live through the alienation and self-inflicted loneliness of integrating schools in the Post-Jim Crow, Post Civil Rights Movement era. I wish that I would have read this book while I was still in high school. I would be able to better articulate to my friends and family what I was experiencing.
I've been wondering if the title has anything to do with the lake that Lorene visited in the story when she took the time to think about her life one night. Or maybe it is a visual reference to her heart, dark and cold because she, in her own words, had not loved enough during her teen-age years. Perhaps, it is a reference to the black ice on the roads that you have to watch out for in the winter...
Rating: 1
Summary: I'm Soooooooo Confused!!!!!
Comment: Black Ice was by far one of the most difficult and boring books I've ever read. I choose this book because it was and autobiography about a young African American girl and I thought in some way I could relate. First of all, the book starts off completely slow and it stays that way throughout the whole book. It doesn't have any parts that are interesting or keep your attention. One other thing I didn't like was the fact that the words she used were dull and hard to understand. There were too many characters and she jumped back and forth between them throughout the entire story, so you never know whom she's talking about or what their purpose is in the story. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone under the age of 21 and I'd never read it again.
Rating: 1
Summary: Dull and confusing...
Comment: I recently finished reading the book Black Ice, and did not understand what the whole point of the book was. i also had to write a report on the book and you dont have any idea how many hours i spent and headaches I had trying to find some plot the story.
a definite "dont-read-unless-you-have-to" and a big disappointment.
I am a big reader, and I have found few books boring, but this book was a clear exception.
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Title: The Price of a Child : A Novel by Lorene Cary ISBN: 0679744673 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Having Our Say : The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah L. Delany, A. Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth, A. Elizabeth Delany ISBN: 0440220424 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison ISBN: 0452269571 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Writing a Woman's Life by CAROLYN G. HEILBRUN ISBN: 034536256X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Taming it Down by Kim McLarin ISBN: 0446675741 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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