Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Author - Alexandra Fuller ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Random House Trade Paperbacks was reviewed on 16-Oct-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book kept me engaged to see what "diffrent" thihg would happen next. While not great writing, it is vivid and depicts things most of us can hardly imagine.¤

2) Paperback Book Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Random House Trade Paperbacks. An amazing book that brings Africa to life. It is a vivid portrait of a family and a continent in a very particular period. Deserves rereading as there is so much to it.¤

3) Paperback Book Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Random House Trade Paperbacks. In Don´t Let´s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller describes her childhood in Africa. Fuller´s story, told in graceful prose, is brutal and touching and never overly sentimental. I enjoyed many of the stories Fuller includes in this memoir, but I found certain aspects tedious. Fuller´s family moves through many different living situations in numerous countries and confronts various unstable political regimes. After awhile, these places and politics run together and became repetitive. The tedium borne of this repetition somewhat lessens the overall power of this memoir, but Don´t Let´s Go to the Dogs Tonight remains a worthwhile read.¤

4) Paperback Book Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Random House Trade Paperbacks. I certainly enjoyed this book. We will be reading this book as a choice for a book club. There is a lot to discuss-from the family life to the unrest that is pertinent to what was once Rhodesia and is now suddenly thrust into the spotlight as Zimbabwe. Ms. Fuller takes you to a place that few in today´s world will experience. She is honest in her depiction of her family and one is caught up in each of their personalities. I wish more books could offer such insight and descriptions that will both educate and entertain at the same time.

Gail Boyd, Washington, Ga.¤

5) Paperback Book Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Random House Trade Paperbacks. Although mostly well-written, this memoir is very depressing. I was expecting more about Africa from this NF book, but it´s largely the tale of a highly dysfunctional family that suffers blow after blow, bringing much of it on itself. And no one seems to learn anything from their mistakes. The Book of Job is uplifting reading by comparison.¤

6) Paperback Book Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Random House Trade Paperbacks. In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.¤

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