"'Invisible Man' is a boring book. The only thing that it's really about is how black people were treated after slavery ... The only think this book is about is how black people were treated so badly, I don't feel bad for them because they didn't try to change it. I think that since the man moved into a free state where they treated black people a little better that he should have done something greater instead of becoming an insirational speaker for some secret organization. All he did was speak infront of people speeche after speech. And all for what?
In the end he gave up, he accepted defeat. He simple accepted something taht he could have changed."
"The narrator really bothered me. Shit just happens to this guy, but I feel like he doesn’t react to it realistically. He completely believes that it’s not his fault, but he never try’s to find out if there’s something he can do about it, or if there is someone behind these events."
"Too bad Mr. Ellison doesn't rise above the hateful messages in his book. He leaves us feeling like he is the black-equivalent of an elderly white racist skinhead."
"Let me start off by saying I am not impressed by this book. And dats all I gots ta say bout dat. yassah. If ever there was a book that should be banned, I think this might be one"
"the message one seems to draw from the book, is that african americans do not matter and cannot overcome racial prejudice. To reach this conclusion takes 580 pages and a myriad of sureal episodes."
"Ellison dehumanizes his white counterparts, believing them to fundamnetally the same."
"The book contains 581 pages. The story could have been well told in half that space, saving countless stress in the process. Sure, the grammar is good, the spelling is faultless, the punctuation is right on."
"this book is really, really, really, really long, and probably not worth the time it takes to read"
"I thought it was going to be mostly about a man isolating himself from the world. To my surprise the book is about a black man and the struggles he endures because of his race. There are many parts of this book that I found upsetting"
"This book is like the whatchamacallit of Frederick Douglas.
Some Black Guy, In sometime, where Black Guys, such as him, are not liked, or paid attention to cause they’re black guys. I can barely get two sentences in each time I read. It’s so close to non-fiction. It’s so boring. Anyone who says it isn’t is dead on the inside. Dead, or dying.
Do you know what 1984(the book we were supposed to read….) is about?
COOL SHIT. About shit-crazed governments controlling people’s ever goddamned move.
Muthafucking COOL SHIT."
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Friday, September 21, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man III
"He needs to learn to control his anger."
"The logical fallacies are so numerous that they discount the entire meaning of the book."
"Uncle Tom's Cabin has largely the same message (though it is perhaps not as stylistically advanced), and has had a far greater impact on the Nation's awareness and treatment of blacks."
"I wanted to shake him! He was such a darned fool who never used his brain and continutally erupted into violent anger. What a waste of a life"
"If Ellison's motivation was to show the crushing effects of racism, then his character should have been less of a self-centered fool"
"How often can you blame others without looking at yourself?"
"I understand the plight, but the book seems sad rather than proactive."
"It is hard to believe that it took all those hardships for him to 'find' himself. Is anyone that naive. I hope not."
"A disturbing portrayal of the perception a black man has of white America. It has not earned a place on my list of favorite novels, but I am pleased that I persevered in my struggle to read this book, and even more in my struggle to write about it."
"I found myself early on with the impression of an unintelligent liar, telling me poor lies and expecting me to believe them because he has already fooled himself into believing them. That impression was confirmed again and again with each subsequent tale. Several times I actually called the book a liar out loud (in manners of speech), putting it down in disgust. The more I read, the more I felt burdened as I have in my life when forced to listen to similarly poor liars, telling me stupid fantasies in an attempt to either impress me or to avoid punishment. Perhaps Mr. Ellison was too clever for me and has actually written a tale told by a dense, pathological liar, to see whether his audience would figure it out."
"As an American historian, I probably should've read it a long time ago. I did not. I found it to be uninteresting"
"It made sense for the protagonist to feel invisible because of how much he was kicked around not only by white society but also by his fellow black 'Brothers.'"
"I bought this because it was required reading for my son's high school English class. He got a few chapters in and said Mom I don't think I should be reading this. I took the book and read about 30 pages before I put it down in disgust. I am not a prude by any stretch of the imagination. I am also not religious, so my criticism of this book does not stem from that either. I just think it's way too mature for a high school student. The story is told from the point of view of the 'invisible man' and one passage of the book describes in detail how he gazes upon the naked body of this girl, and how he wants to spit on her nipples and is consumed with desire to kill her. IMO it borders on pornographic. I don't understand how or why this book is considered 'literature' and I told my son he did not have to read it if it made him uncomfortable."
"There is no distinct conclusion."
"I thought this was about the invisible man. i kept wondering when he'd become invisible. disappointing."
"The logical fallacies are so numerous that they discount the entire meaning of the book."
"Uncle Tom's Cabin has largely the same message (though it is perhaps not as stylistically advanced), and has had a far greater impact on the Nation's awareness and treatment of blacks."
"I wanted to shake him! He was such a darned fool who never used his brain and continutally erupted into violent anger. What a waste of a life"
"If Ellison's motivation was to show the crushing effects of racism, then his character should have been less of a self-centered fool"
"How often can you blame others without looking at yourself?"
"I understand the plight, but the book seems sad rather than proactive."
"It is hard to believe that it took all those hardships for him to 'find' himself. Is anyone that naive. I hope not."
"A disturbing portrayal of the perception a black man has of white America. It has not earned a place on my list of favorite novels, but I am pleased that I persevered in my struggle to read this book, and even more in my struggle to write about it."
"I found myself early on with the impression of an unintelligent liar, telling me poor lies and expecting me to believe them because he has already fooled himself into believing them. That impression was confirmed again and again with each subsequent tale. Several times I actually called the book a liar out loud (in manners of speech), putting it down in disgust. The more I read, the more I felt burdened as I have in my life when forced to listen to similarly poor liars, telling me stupid fantasies in an attempt to either impress me or to avoid punishment. Perhaps Mr. Ellison was too clever for me and has actually written a tale told by a dense, pathological liar, to see whether his audience would figure it out."
"As an American historian, I probably should've read it a long time ago. I did not. I found it to be uninteresting"
"It made sense for the protagonist to feel invisible because of how much he was kicked around not only by white society but also by his fellow black 'Brothers.'"
"I bought this because it was required reading for my son's high school English class. He got a few chapters in and said Mom I don't think I should be reading this. I took the book and read about 30 pages before I put it down in disgust. I am not a prude by any stretch of the imagination. I am also not religious, so my criticism of this book does not stem from that either. I just think it's way too mature for a high school student. The story is told from the point of view of the 'invisible man' and one passage of the book describes in detail how he gazes upon the naked body of this girl, and how he wants to spit on her nipples and is consumed with desire to kill her. IMO it borders on pornographic. I don't understand how or why this book is considered 'literature' and I told my son he did not have to read it if it made him uncomfortable."
"There is no distinct conclusion."
"I thought this was about the invisible man. i kept wondering when he'd become invisible. disappointing."
Monday, September 17, 2012
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man II
"T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E. No substance! This is the most boring book ever. I couldn't even concentrate on the sparknotes."
"an inferior and turgid work of literature"
"Very dark book that was a huge waste of my time!!!"
"I did not like this book very much, mainly because the narrator rubbed me the wrong way. He came off as very arrogant and even ignorant ... He is the reason that he is invisible! That really made me angry. However, I did like the perspective of the book, even if an aggravating African American man was the narrator."
"A seminal work in 'race relations' -- a genre that should have been banished to idiocy (along with religion and the death penalty) years ago. What I mean by that is this: there is no such thing as 'race,' and people should realize we are all just *people* and move the hell on."
"I thought that it was extremely difficult to actually be interested in this book because of how predictable the story is. Of course the black community would have been oppressed during the 1930's, and of course blacks would be discriminated against by the white people in the community."
"It's actually just kind of dated and doesn't sufficiently enlighten us from a more color-blind age what the black experience was really like under such systemic racism."
"The speech that gets him into college is insightful/passionate enough"
"I have been trying to get through this one for a year, but I just can't take it anymore. I have officially decided to give up on it at the half-way point. Maybe it has a message or some literary value, but I am just not getting it."
"I was done with it after about 15 pages. Of course, the book is about 350 pages, so that really made for some difficulty in my life when I had to write a 10 page paper on it."
YEAH, SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAD SOME REAL DIFFICULTY IN YOUR LIFE THERE
"I'm afraid my stomach was just too weak for this book. I'm highly effected by imagery and this book nearly knocked me off my feet. There just wasn't enough to justify how long it took me to recover from the reading."
"My hate stems from the fact that we spent nearly a month of class dissecting this book and I was never so miserable in my entire life."
I'M AWARDING A PRIZE TO THIS, POSSIBLY THE MOST MEANINGLESS PARAGRAPH I HAVE EVER READ:
"I believe this novel was also written as a narrative, retaining the overall quality found within a narration. The author displayed the style of writing with historical accuracy and radical development. Done in a narrative style with a strong sense of time and place, Ellison was aware of his ideas and character's growth throughout the novel. I strongly believe that Ellison was aware of this theme. He displayed it accurately throughout."
"an inferior and turgid work of literature"
"Very dark book that was a huge waste of my time!!!"
"I did not like this book very much, mainly because the narrator rubbed me the wrong way. He came off as very arrogant and even ignorant ... He is the reason that he is invisible! That really made me angry. However, I did like the perspective of the book, even if an aggravating African American man was the narrator."
"A seminal work in 'race relations' -- a genre that should have been banished to idiocy (along with religion and the death penalty) years ago. What I mean by that is this: there is no such thing as 'race,' and people should realize we are all just *people* and move the hell on."
"I thought that it was extremely difficult to actually be interested in this book because of how predictable the story is. Of course the black community would have been oppressed during the 1930's, and of course blacks would be discriminated against by the white people in the community."
"It's actually just kind of dated and doesn't sufficiently enlighten us from a more color-blind age what the black experience was really like under such systemic racism."
"The speech that gets him into college is insightful/passionate enough"
"I have been trying to get through this one for a year, but I just can't take it anymore. I have officially decided to give up on it at the half-way point. Maybe it has a message or some literary value, but I am just not getting it."
"I was done with it after about 15 pages. Of course, the book is about 350 pages, so that really made for some difficulty in my life when I had to write a 10 page paper on it."
YEAH, SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAD SOME REAL DIFFICULTY IN YOUR LIFE THERE
"I'm afraid my stomach was just too weak for this book. I'm highly effected by imagery and this book nearly knocked me off my feet. There just wasn't enough to justify how long it took me to recover from the reading."
"My hate stems from the fact that we spent nearly a month of class dissecting this book and I was never so miserable in my entire life."
I'M AWARDING A PRIZE TO THIS, POSSIBLY THE MOST MEANINGLESS PARAGRAPH I HAVE EVER READ:
"I believe this novel was also written as a narrative, retaining the overall quality found within a narration. The author displayed the style of writing with historical accuracy and radical development. Done in a narrative style with a strong sense of time and place, Ellison was aware of his ideas and character's growth throughout the novel. I strongly believe that Ellison was aware of this theme. He displayed it accurately throughout."
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
"First off, he isn't really invisible. That was disappointment enough"
"I don't care about the plot, I don't care about the characters, I hate that he whines and is stupid over and over and over again."
"I don't know what it is. Is it because I'm white? Because I'm 17? Because I live in 21st century suburban Ohio? I'm not sure which reason explains it, but I did not understand this book at all."
"I thought it was a boring topic, and I thought the events that happened in the book were boring. I probably would have liked the book more if I could find a way to relate to it, but I could not."
"Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison was a boring book. Ellison used a lot of big words that sometimes made it hard to understand."
"This book is very confusing to say the least. It travels back into his past and even back to the present day ... I really do not recomend this book to anyone. Its almost sick and very racist page in and page out."
"READERS should be aware that, like what the title implies, this holistic piece of SHIT is all about nothing. while the content of this shit is perhaps a realistic representation of what probably is the world's most desperate attempt to appear descriptive and meaningful, it actually is nothing more than a long, tedious raving of a young man whose sole occupation in life stands alone--forcing meaning into issues that never make you give a damn hoot.you can call me illiterate for failing to recognize whatever merit more 'literate' people have so far managed to unravel in this solid crap, but for my part it's this simple: truly liking this book requires more than just good education and refinement. you have to at least be fucking desperate and pretentious, and perhaps hypnotized, and, on the whole, insane to feel some sort of appreciation for this so-called novel."
"It was okay. I was interesting in reading it because it was the only character from 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' whom I did not know."
"This was not good. Most of the time I spent reading this book was actually spent re-reading parts because I felt like I had missed important facts. Like, since when is the character on a horse? It was not described that he was on a horse and yet suddenly he is being described as jumping down from a horse. Crap like this all through the book."
"As a Caucasian middle class teenage girl, I could not relate to this book nor can I see the importance in the subject matter."
"There is a lot of mature content that I'll just never be old enough to read."
"Gross language and visual scenes. Disturbing uses of the themes in the book. I know the guy was trying to make a point, but other novels do a much more impressive job with symbolism and imagery and yet they STILL enforce the reading of this for school. It's always the same every year, reading a piece of depressing "literature" on black slavery/persecution or the Holocaust. I understand that we need to appreciate and understand the social significance of these time periods, but book after book of the same subject matter? With inappropriate qualities, nonetheless?"
"I don't care about the plot, I don't care about the characters, I hate that he whines and is stupid over and over and over again."
"I don't know what it is. Is it because I'm white? Because I'm 17? Because I live in 21st century suburban Ohio? I'm not sure which reason explains it, but I did not understand this book at all."
"I thought it was a boring topic, and I thought the events that happened in the book were boring. I probably would have liked the book more if I could find a way to relate to it, but I could not."
"Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison was a boring book. Ellison used a lot of big words that sometimes made it hard to understand."
"This book is very confusing to say the least. It travels back into his past and even back to the present day ... I really do not recomend this book to anyone. Its almost sick and very racist page in and page out."
"READERS should be aware that, like what the title implies, this holistic piece of SHIT is all about nothing. while the content of this shit is perhaps a realistic representation of what probably is the world's most desperate attempt to appear descriptive and meaningful, it actually is nothing more than a long, tedious raving of a young man whose sole occupation in life stands alone--forcing meaning into issues that never make you give a damn hoot.you can call me illiterate for failing to recognize whatever merit more 'literate' people have so far managed to unravel in this solid crap, but for my part it's this simple: truly liking this book requires more than just good education and refinement. you have to at least be fucking desperate and pretentious, and perhaps hypnotized, and, on the whole, insane to feel some sort of appreciation for this so-called novel."
"It was okay. I was interesting in reading it because it was the only character from 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' whom I did not know."
"This was not good. Most of the time I spent reading this book was actually spent re-reading parts because I felt like I had missed important facts. Like, since when is the character on a horse? It was not described that he was on a horse and yet suddenly he is being described as jumping down from a horse. Crap like this all through the book."
"As a Caucasian middle class teenage girl, I could not relate to this book nor can I see the importance in the subject matter."
"There is a lot of mature content that I'll just never be old enough to read."
"Gross language and visual scenes. Disturbing uses of the themes in the book. I know the guy was trying to make a point, but other novels do a much more impressive job with symbolism and imagery and yet they STILL enforce the reading of this for school. It's always the same every year, reading a piece of depressing "literature" on black slavery/persecution or the Holocaust. I understand that we need to appreciate and understand the social significance of these time periods, but book after book of the same subject matter? With inappropriate qualities, nonetheless?"
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