Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Things Fall Apart
Book Review: A Must Read
Summary: 4 Stars
When I got this book at first I wasn't really looking forward to it. How my opinion has changed! A fascinating book that is not only hard to put down, but will only get better with re-reading.
Ok, there aren't that many positive characters in the book, but there are many that you will be able to identify with and that is what a good book produces. Put simply, the best book I've read in ages!
Book Review: what is everyone going on about?
Summary: 1 Stars
this has to be one of the worst books i have ever read! i found it thoroughly boring from the start as it seemed to want repeat itself several times, and have the vocabulary of a three year old. altogether i would not have read it had i not been forced to due to educational requirements.Book Review: A must read
Summary: 5 Stars
Chinua Achebe's THINGS FALL APART is like what HEART OF DARKNESS would have been if told through the eyes of an African. The book immerses the reader into the lives of an African village and soon one is lost in the world Achebe created. When the first "white man" arrives, you feel the same shock, bewilderment, and later hatred that their arrival brings. It's like an earthquake that destroys everything that you know and love.
This novel perfectly shows the disastrous effects of colonization and most readers will empathize with the struggles of the natives. This book should be required reading for everyone that agrees with invading another country to spread religion, democracy, values, or whatever else it believes it's doing in the name of righteousness
Book Review: Quintessential Achebe
Summary: 5 Stars
A most memorable book, Okonkwo looms large, but as a tragic figure is very human; small in the temporal context. His world is rapidly changing, christians have taken hold, and the gods seem to have gone silent. Indeed the 'pacification' of his village was thorough in this sense as it somehow strikes at the essence of their existence seemingly usurping it. The ghost of Okonkwo from this encounter still haunts the african continent; the tensions between the lure of modernisation and tradition. Achebe deals brilliantly with african space, connecting the past with the present, ensuring that precolonial space is documented for reference.
It is a most enjoyable read, one that must be revisited over and over again.
Book Review: Please, please read this. You deserve it!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book will move you. I guarantee it. 100%. It will live with you for ever. I also guarantee that. 100%. If a book ever can have such a guarantee attached to it, then this is the one. How about another one: You will not be able to put this book down.
Why? Well, how about the slow unravelling of a people; the tragic desperation of the protagonist to preserve what has always been; and what about his frustration as, despite his strength and standing, he is quite unable to preseve his people's traditions against the onslaught of a couple of English missionaries?
And if that doesn't leave an indelible mark on you, the unashamed portrayal of the traditional practices of the local populace will. Indeed, the greatest strength of this book is that it doesn't idealise the traditional, neither does it villify the new. It just lays the facts of empire and all the tragedy of empire and the human condition before the reader and says, "This is how it was and this is how it is."