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Shota I shotaibara119f — This 1926 novel of the Harlem Renaissance, written by a white, gay man, drew fire from the black community for its scandalous title. It's good, but a bit too polemical for my taste. His point is that there are rich blacks, intellectual blacks, jazz-players, poor blacks and gigolos all living side by side in Harlem. They are various and interesting people and not of one mind on any subject and we should really get to know them. His main characters are not fully realized to me. The bitter young college-educated Byron Kasson, who can't get a job any better than elevator operator, seems somewhat stilted and one dimensional. His priggish, long-suffering, librarian girlfriend is not much better. What I loved were the descriptions of Harlem life, the cabarets in all their tawdriness and the lavish parlours of the wealthy. The tragic ending seemed cheap and unnecessary. I think it could have been much more complex, but still very enjoyable.

Yusran Dblx doublexart32e2 — Such a funny commentary on the publishing business in general, relationships between readers and writers, and the life of the "artist". Loved it.

Emir çiftçi emirciftci — Beginning Book 2...

Caio César _aio_esar — I just finished reading JM Coetzee's Disgrace. I have read 2 other books by him and think that he is an excellent author. Disgrace is about an old white South-African professor who has sex with his student and gets expelled as a consequence. Later he goes and lives in the countryside with his daughter, but even that doesn't end happily as her house gets burgled by some Africans, and the daughter gets raped. There is some intense description of what goes through the daughter's mind after the rape. She doesn't want to leave her farm even though she is very unsafe, and she has friends and family in Holland. She wants to go on living in what she considers home, even though that means living next to and in supplication to a person who conspired in her rape. While the professor is living with his daughter, he works in an Animal clinic where unwanted dogs are euthanized. Initially, he doesn't believe in love, least of all to animals. But after assiting in many deaths, he strangely finds himself feeling love for animals. The beginnings of morality perhaps. Similarly, initially he feels no remorse at having slept with a student as he just considers this an acting out of a human's natural desire, and not submitting to it being equivalent to resisting ones nature. He feels he'd rather be shot than resist. But after the incident in the countryside, he actually apologizes to the girl's family. Perhaps, in some consideration to what the natural state of humans (in this case hatred) led them towards (rape). All through the novel, the professor is working on an opera about Byron in Italy, with varying levels of intensity. Towards the end, even though the opera doesn't go anywhere, it helps him find a mean in his life (between Byron and his mistress' level of passion). In the final scene he is able to come to terms with euthanizing a dog he is especially fond of. Perhaps symbolic of his being able to also loosen his bonds with his daughter whose behavior he fails to comprehend. And also to move on from the disgrace caused by his dismissal, and from his doomed love for his protege.

Roberta Bonfield robertabonfield — This book is such a sweet story, infused with symbolism. I found its message inspiring. Basically: Life is a journey most rewarding if you follow your dreams.