junnyjake:


¿hablas espanyol?

Si.


Entiendo un poquito.. Google helped me here o. I understand little thanks to telemundo and Spanish songs

Samguine:
I've got soft copies of Things Fall Apart and No longer At Ease by Achebe, The Famished Road (Ben Okri) and I'm willing to share. Hard copies of The Passport of Mallam Ilia, The New Man, Toads for Supper, The Concubine... I don't know how that can be shared

I guess this thread can be an avenue where lovers of classics can share with one another.

please send me the soft copies also... Omotoshooluwagbemi@gmail.com is my email

junnyjake:


yea yea, I loved the story that much.

look for 'the cyclist' and read it, I assure you, you'd love it.

I have read It! Some twenty years ago. Can't even remember the plot.

whitecloth:
Your location.

Lagos

naptu2:


Gwendoline Mary = Mallory Towers. I read those books more than 30 years ago, so I don't remember the names of the individual books, but I remember a bit of the plots. Do you remember when they had an American student at Mallory Towers? They also had a very snobbish girl in one of the books. I think her name was The Honourable Clarissa Carter (or something like that).

Wow wow wow. You are right. A girl's boarding school or something like that. Wow.

Flashback.


Nice you could remember.

Bluezy13:


Very painful, my dear. The story is all tragedy. She suffered all her lifetime, even in marriage.

At my age then, I got absorbed by the happenings in the book that it almost reflected in my life physically as I was constantly wearing a sad face then.


You know, at that time, any book one happens to find oneself reading, all one's imagination would be seasoned and directed by the book until one picks up another book.
Besides, that "Joys of Motherhood" is/was a heavy book with very tiny text such that would discourage a dull/lazy reader.
Hehehe...



Poor Nnuego.
Anyways, she tried like a mother.
Only that the end...at least...would have been joyous like the Drummer boy.

it was a very nice book... I cried at the end.... Try reading 'efuru'

Samguine:

Lagos

presently in Ibadan

Samguine:
I've got soft copies of Things Fall Apart and No longer At Ease by Achebe, The Famished Road (Ben Okri) and I'm willing to share. Hard copies of The Passport of Mallam Ilia, The New Man, Toads for Supper, The Concubine... I don't know how that can be shared

I guess this thread can be an avenue where lovers of classics can share with one another.

please bro
how do i get them

bellville:
I thoroughly enjoyed "The last duty" by Isidore Okpevwo. I read bottled leopard at 13 and found it scary.

For the best of African classics, check my signature. Prompt delivery throughout Nigeria.

Have you read The Rivals by Isidore Okpewho?

vetrovialMan:


please bro
how do i get them

kris.ogboo@gmail.com

Samguine:

Lagos

presently in Ibadan, where did you get those books, I want to have mine also.

Ishilove:

Emenike is different from Ekueme. Ekwueme was Ihuoma's husband while Emenike was supposed to marry her. Agwoturumbe boasted he could appease the Sea King but he was outsmarted at the end

Yes. Emenike was The first to die. Ekwueme was next. That book was awesome.

Ishilove:

I remember the tale of the ones who ran to Lagos. When they were dedicating the truck, people got drunk and fought themselves, and eventually had blood splattered on the truck. The two were warned that this was a bad omen.

The one of the orphan who was taken by the trader selling statues is a vague memory but I recall the beginning.

Very correct. That's the book.

Yuneehk:

Si.


Entiendo un poquito.. Google helped me here o. I understand little thanks to telemundo and Spanish songs

¡bien!

¡Mucho gusto!

Did anyone read Takadini? The story of an handicapped Albino boy? I'll be glad if I can get the book again

And, The secret of the Sheik. Please anyone!!

Yuneehk:

Si.


Entiendo un poquito.. Google helped me here o. I understand little thanks to telemundo and Spanish songs

but I've not seen any telemundo series with Spanish subtitles.

Samankwe And The Highway Robbers

She Died Yesterday

lagos Na Wa

Please Don't Say No

The Potter's Wheel

Love On The Rocks

The Hopeful Lovers

Fools Rush In

So many classic novels from before there was the Internet, back when life was sweeter.

vhickky:
it was a very nice book... I cried at the end.... Try reading 'efuru'

Oh, I'll...
thanks

litetias:


I have read It! Some twenty years ago. Can't even remember the plot.

señor, I hail o.

it's about a Biafran soldier thought to be dead by his family, eventually got released from prison.

Everyone at home were shocked to see him.

u
Upon his return, he found out the love of his life 'Celina' got married to a bicycle repairer I guess.

Now he's faced with the challenge of winning her back.

junnyjake:



but I've not seen any telemundo series with Spanish subtitles.

I shouldn't have used telemundo. Telenovelas would have been appropriate. When you buy the CDs, they speak Spanish and it's subtitled in English

Ishilove so u love novels. Wow! That's gr8. I've read only some of these books listed above
- Without a silver spoon
- One week, one trouble
- An african Nights Entertainment
- Sugar Girl (who haven't read it? )
- The drummer boy
- The passport of mallam Ilia
etc, etc

Those were the days when youngsters read... Now all they do is watch telemundo

Ishilove:


I thought i saw Ralia Odinga

I know I've read this Boyslave book, but each time i try to conjure up the memory, Koku Baboni keeps popping up.

Who also remembers My Father's Daughter by Mabel something?

Mabel Segun

Yuneehk:

I shouldn't have used telemundo. Telenovelas would have been appropriate. When you buy the CDs, they speak Spanish and it's subtitled in English

That's cool.

I use duolingo and some learn Spanish books.

Yuneehk:
My favourite was "second chance".. I read that book so many times. Rich Mina Erein and poor Richard Pepple with their twin girls

I love that story too. I can read it a thousand times

junnyjake:



señor, I hail o.

it's about a Biafran soldier thought to be dead by his family, eventually got released from prison.

Everyone at home were shocked to see him.

u
Upon his return, he found out the love of his life 'Celina' got married to a bicycle repairer I guess.

Now he's faced with the challenge of winning her back.

I remember it vaguely now. Thanks! My parents had a collection of over 100 of such classic novels but my siblings over the years have given them all away cos they don't know the value. I miss them.

Is there any other one you have read?

delors:
Wow! Read almost all of Pacesetters series within a year....1999/2000. Good old days. Started with Equatorial Assignment whole I was sick...then I got hooked. Finished all Pacesetters, advanced to James Hadley Chase.

Jeez! Equatorial Assignment!! I found the book in my dad's bookshelf! I read it so many times that all the actions are etched in my memory. That was the first time I'd be knowing anything about Kenya. The book was simply superb. Funny enough, like the last 10 pages were missing, which means I still don't know what happened at the end.

Ishilove:


Who can remember the other books written by Agbo Areo?

u

Agbo Areo the great writer ... I used to work for his publishing coy in ibadan long time ago and his kids are my friends.

My favorite is The Director by him

litetias:


Have you read The Rivals by Ishilove Okpewho?

You mean Isidore Okpewho? No I haven't

bellville:
You mean Isidore Okpewho? No I haven't

Yeah I meant Isidore. Ok

niceprof:
It was an interesting read,because as a student of the Government College Umuahia then,which was the setting of the book,i could relate with everything written therein.From Bottled leopard to Arrow of god to Forest of flowers(Ken saro-wiwa) to The Concubine,all were written by our old boys.

Proudly Umuahian. Our will to shine as one.

Yeah Govt College Umuahia was a great school with Erudite scholars and Academic giants,even China Achebe stated it in his book,'There was a country'

litetias:


I remember it vaguely now. Thanks! My parents had a collection of over 100 of such classic novels but my siblings over the years have given them all away cos they don't know the value. I miss them.

Is there any other one you have read?

Christmas in the City, the runaway bride(i don't like this one). no condition is permanent (spectrum publishers). The gun merchant, the rat race. And many more I can't wave my head around currently.


Later on I started reading lantern (their matured stories of course)

the pirate, beyond intimidation ati bee bee lo.

No more time to read like before sha.

who read scoundrels in uniform? how can I forget big headed obu in 'the potters wheel'. memories!

abbeyty:
op what about sugar girl

Lára the sugar girl. Oh good old days.