I was only 8 when Roots came out and my family being of the average, racist variety in Florida at the time, we did not watch it on TV in 1977. In the meantime, I did a lot of work to unroot that racism I was brought up with and read widely: Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcolm X, Ralph Ellison, etc. but until now, some 43 years later, I read Roots by Alex Haley. It was a moving experience, particularly the middle passage of Kunta Kinta from La Gambia to 'Na...

*بدلیل پیشگیری از قاطی شدن راست چین و چپ چین از گذاشتن نقطه و ویرگول معذورم*طلسم شکسته شد و من این کتاب رو تموم کردمبرای ریویو نوشتن نسبت به این کتاب باید خیلی وسواس به خرج داد چون کوچک ترین غفلتی باعث میشه در حق کتاب نامردی صورت بگیرهخیلی سربسته و بدون اسپویل اگر بخوام بنویسماین کتاب داستان زندگی هفت نسل از یک خانواده آفریقایی تبار هستکه مسیر زندگی این خانواده از خود افریقا آغاز و در امریکا پایان پیدا میکنهبا اینکه کتاب حول محور برده داری و فروش برده نوشته شده ولیدر کتاب به موضوعاتی همچون جنگ د...

مدت‌ها بود کتابی نخوانده بودم که اینطور من رو تحت تاثیر قرار بده. که باهاش زجر بکشم و گریه کنم و خوشحال بشم و هشتصد صفحه رو با کتاب زندگی کنمشاید براتون پیش اومده باشه که فکر کنید پدر پدر پدربزرگتون کی بوده و چطور زندگی می.کرده. اگر خوش‌شانس باشید، شاید کسی اسمش رو به یاد بیاره یا جایی نوشته شده باشه. خانواده‌ی الکس هیلی داستان اجدادشون رو سینه به سینه برای هم گفتند و داستان انقدر زنده موند که به کتاب تبدیل شد. داستانِ کونتا کینتهی آفریقایی که به بردگی گرفته شد، به آمریکا اومد و یکروز برای دخترش...

One of my top 5 favourite reads!

I remember watching the mini series of this book on TV around the same time we were studying about early American history in school. I finally got my hands on this book a few years back when a friend lent it to me and since she was clearing her bookshelf I was more than happy to keep the copy...I still have it! A gripping and gritting portrayal of the story of a tribal prince, Kunta Kinte, who is snatched from his homeland of Africa and thrown into a nightmare of slavery in America and how not o...

Magnificent. The epic chronicle of a family through many generations of cruelty, hardship and suffering. But it's much more than that really; it's the history of slavery in America. What happened to the characters in this book happened to millions of others and it's a story that needed to be told and Alex Haley did a masterful job of telling it. Roots should be required reading in high schools because all of us, regardless of age, race, or gender should understand this history. You can't tell th...

Knjiga, a potom i serija, koje smo mnogo voleli... Kako bi bilo lepo kad bi se neko setio evergrin naslova i ponovo objavio ovu knjigu... Pre nekoliko godina sam nabavila originalni box set serije pa mogu da uživam u njoj kad god poželim... Makar nešto... :)

I opened the cover of this book with eagerness and excitement. In fact, I informed my family I was finally reading Roots and I would be out of commission for the week! I was then greeted by 192 pages of some of the dullest prose I have ever encountered. Dull and monotonous writing. Zero character development. The exotic locale of Africa reduced to sand and thorns, with a few cardboard cut-outs of Africans standing around.Then, on page 192 (out of 900), conflict finally creates the true beginning...

I read this book long, long ago: came across it while going through a book list here on Goodreads, and suddenly felt the urge to post a review.Dear Kunta Kinte,We are separated by time, space and culture. Throughout your largely tragic life, you would never have imagined that your story would ever be written, let alone read by a bookish teenager in far-away India, for whom slavery till that day was only a fact learned from school textbooks, mucked up to pass hated history exams. However, Mr. Kin...

This book was astonishing to me - particularly the narrative of Kunta Kinte's life. This is why I read! What an amazing description of African culture and the rights of manhood. Then, the horrible violation of slavery and the cross-cultural experience of an African joining slaves who were predominately born in the United States. Sounds silly, but though I've read many books on slavery, none have dealt with the differences among slaves themselves and how growing up as a slave shaped how African A...