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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Oct 31, 2011
Pros: An insight into Igbo history
Cons: Shocking and quite upsetting
Summary: ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Chinua Achebe was born in Ogidi, Nigeria and was the son of a teacher in a missionary school. His parents educated him many of the values of their traditional Igbo culture but they were also devout evangelical ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 28, 2008
Pros: A very readable book with very challenging implications
Cons: A proverbial cast of thousands with names that are hard for most Americans to read
Summary: It isn't so much anger as defiance that fuels the Nigerian poet/novelist Chinua Achebe's 1958 masterpiece Things Fall Apart. The novel, which, like most of Achebe's work, was written in English, doesn't so much rage against ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 13, 2001
Pros: A leisurely read that takes you into the world of the Igbo people.
Cons: Not one.
Summary: This is a book that takes you far and away from the lives we lived in. It even goes as far to rattle the sensibilities of most modern Africans. Achebe's dazzling account of the lives and livelihoods of the pre-colonial Nigerian ethnic group called the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 8, 2001
Pros: A magnificent story that promotes a healthy, strong Africa.
Cons: -
Summary: The African culture sees control of the land not by this Western definition, but in a different light, one of stewardship and respect toward the earth. In Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, we see a glimpse into the real African world, a place ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 4, 2001
Pros: length, achebes writing style
Cons: none
Summary: Things Fall Apart
PLOT: I feel that the plot of Things Fall Apart is somewhat boring. I enjoy the type of book that has a fair amount of action and suspense. Until the final chapters of this book there is a minimal amount of these genres. The book ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 29, 2001
Pros: Great way to familiarize with Nigerian Culture, captures the essence of British Imperialism
Cons: Repetitive, uninspiring story that was either written for 2nd graders or translated terribly
Summary: Perhaps I do not like Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe because I was required to actively read (color coded highlighting and plot/marginal notes on each page) it for English class, but I feel I can safely say that I did not enjoy reading this book. ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 22, 2001
Pros: A look at European culture from a natives viewpoint.
Cons: Leaves you wanting to know the rest of the story.
Summary: After reading Things Fall Apart I felt anger at the way Europeans took advantage of and destroyed a culture and way of life. Who are they to say one culture is better than the other? Until the Europeans showed up on the scene the natives never knew any ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 1, 2000
Pros: A true classic deserving of deeper insight
Cons: None
Summary: Chinua Achebe’s classic novel Things Fall Apart is a great example of two cultures clashing against one another. The Igbo culture is bombarded by Christian and western customs, finally resulting in the breakdown of the Igbo society. Achebe proves to us ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 20, 2000
Pros: Effectively achieved theme; well-told story.
Cons: Rambles--some may find themselves distracted by this, depending on reader preference.
Summary: Don't get me wrong. It's a good book.
The first three-fourths of the book are spent describing the life and times of an African man and his family. The stories are told like fables in a voice resembling those that have retold Grimm's Tales ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 20, 2000
Pros: The book isn't 1,000 pages long
Cons: The book has more than 1 page, it's about yams, and it's boring
Summary: "Things Fall Apart" is a truly awful book about this mean African dude that beats his many wives and his children. He beats them because he doesn't want to be like his father, who was a kind man. If the book was just about him beating his kids ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 8, 2000
Pros: beautiful language, I must say
Cons: theme
Summary: I don't understand people's infatuation with this book. I found that it had too much of a classical tragedy twist in it. The author tries to make the main character, Okonkwo, into a tragic hero. I found that the main character had hardly any ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 26, 2000
Pros: Provides a melancholy insight to Pre-Colonial Africa
Cons: None. This book is great. I don't like the colors of the cover actually...
Summary: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is a novel detailing the experiences of the Ibo people, a native African people residing in western Africa. The setting opens in a tribal village known to the Ibo as Umuofia. The events in the novel seem to take place ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 28, 2000
Pros: Great content
Cons: Little confusing
Summary: In the story, Things Fall Apart, there was a very interesting
passage that really told a lot about how the Ibo’s communication
is regarded. “Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded
very highly and proverbs are the palm-oil ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 4, 2000
Pros: Join a Different culture for a few days.
Cons: Achebe makes 209 pages go by too fast
Summary: Chinua Achebe's artful novel, Things Fall Apart (which, incidentally was the inspiration for The Roots' recent hip-hop album of the same name), tells the story of Okonkwo, a troubled ironfisted leader of a tribe of Africans before, and after their ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 27, 2000
Pros: wonderfully written and intellectually stimulating
Cons: some disturbing scenes in the book
Summary: Things Fall Apart is the beginning book in a tetralogy by Chinua Achebe of Eastern Nigeria. The other members of the tetralogy include Arrow of God, No Longer at Ease and A Man of the People. The series follows a time chronology depicting precolonial ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 11, 2000
Pros: Reads with the voice of the Ibo people
Cons: Hard to keep up with characters at first if unfamiliar with African names
Summary: Chinua Achebe’s novel “Things Fall Apart” is a wonderful example of post-colonial literature. The story has a purely African voice, from the setting and its characters to the many Ibo words Achebe uses (there is even a small glossary of Ibo words and ... read more
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Rated Show by the Epinions community Nov 27, 2011
Pros: I love how this book opens up the readers eyes and "expands their horizons".
Cons: The story plot is dry and, in some parts, disinteresting.
Summary: On the surface, <i>Things Fall Apart</i> by Chinua Achebe seems to be a straight forward story telling of the life of an African clansman during the 1800s. Yet, this book provides the reader with so much more. This book puts the reader in a
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ISBN13: 9780385474542. ISBN10: 0385474547. by Chinua Achebe. Published by Random House, Inc.. Edition: 59
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ISBN13: 9780679446231. ISBN10: 0679446230. by Chinua Achebe. Published by Random House, Inc.. Edition: 92
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ISBN13: 9780393932195. ISBN10: 0393932192. by Chinua Achebe. Published by W.W. Norton & Co.. Edition: 09
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