HRich:
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oyalunasamuel:
I hate reading fiction novels because most times the writer toil with the emotions of the reader with suspense, tragedy and grey endings. So my friends got my a Book by Chimamanda, Half of a Yellow sun. Of course before now, i have read several books on the rise and fall of the Biafran State, my favourite was Chinua Achebe "There was a country". For some reasons however, i avoided Half Of A Yellow Sun. until i got it as a gift and I could not close the book until i finished reading it
The author was very cruel, i asked myself if she ever took it into consideration that its humans with emotions who read the book and not robots. Of course i totally understand the tragedy of war stories but this is different.
In the book I shed tears when Kainene brought the news that Ugwu had died. It was much easier for me to deal with it -after all its one of many war sad tragedy tales- until i read the part that he survived and i felt thankful. Other characters that died like Eberechi, Okeoma felt normal to me even if i felt sad what made me really upset was how the book ended without writing what exactly happened to Kainene. I felt she was mean and not fair, at least the novel was filled with so many tragedy, an happy ending would not have been a bad idea or even if Kainene had die everyone would know exactly how the story ended and mourn her death or something. The pictures were so vivid that certain characters remained constant to me and Kainene was just like Olanna, Odenigbo, Richard and Ugwu. I think proper sending has to be written at least to satisfy my curiosity of what ever may have happened to Kainene.
Am aware lots of people got missing during the war in correlation with the vivid picture Chimamanda painted but why Kainene?
Anyway, This is such an evocative and poetic novel. The language, the story, the characters, the setting—this is nearly a perfect novel. I was truly engaged and greatly informed.

sisisioge:


Thanks for the review, I think I will pick a copy soon. Just like you, I'm usually unhappy with gloomy stories. That's why I have refused to read or watch the movie...I'm too lilly livered to watch so much sorrows.

oyalunasamuel:
I hate reading fiction novels because most times the writer toil with the emotions of the reader with suspense, tragedy and grey endings. So my friends got my a Book by Chimamanda, Half of a Yellow sun. Of course before now, i have read several books on the rise and fall of the Biafran State, my favourite was Chinua Achebe "There was a country". For some reasons however, i avoided Half Of A Yellow Sun. until i got it as a gift and I could not close the book until i finished reading it
The author was very cruel, i asked myself if she ever took it into consideration that its humans with emotions who read the book and not robots. Of course i totally understand the tragedy of war stories but this is different.
In the book I shed tears when Kainene brought the news that Ugwu had died. It was much easier for me to deal with it -after all its one of many war sad tragedy tales- until i read the part that he survived and i felt thankful. Other characters that died like Eberechi, Okeoma felt normal to me even if i felt sad what made me really upset was how the book ended without writing what exactly happened to Kainene. I felt she was mean and not fair, at least the novel was filled with so many tragedy, an happy ending would not have been a bad idea or even if Kainene had die everyone would know exactly how the story ended and mourn her death or something. The pictures were so vivid that certain characters remained constant to me and Kainene was just like Olanna, Odenigbo, Richard and Ugwu. I think proper sending has to be written at least to satisfy my curiosity of what ever may have happened to Kainene.
Am aware lots of people got missing during the war in correlation with the vivid picture Chimamanda painted but why Kainene?
Anyway, This is such an evocative and poetic novel. The language, the story, the characters, the setting—this is nearly a perfect novel. I was truly engaged and greatly informed.

NobleRomm:







Go and watch the video..... "HALF OF THE YELLOW SUN" you will like it... .
i love the video.

HRich:
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Sandyyyyy:
I usually don't comment but this guy got me. This is her fucking story. It is her real life sad story. She was the little girl. Was she supposed to lie or something? Please make your findings before criticism. That book is nearly perfection

skimarvel:
Her bank account feels the same way!!!

Sandyyyyy:
I usually don't comment but this guy got me. This is her fucking story. It is her real life sad story. She was the little girl. Was she supposed to lie or something? Please make your findings before criticism. That book is nearly perfection

Ralphlauren:
Change your heading.

It's "too" and not "to".

Besides, this book is rather old. Are you just reading it or are you trying to start another tribal thread that would lead to another e-war between their biafrians and the other enlightened tribes in nigeria

oyalunasamuel:
I hate reading fiction novels because most times the writer toil with the emotions of the reader with suspense, tragedy and grey endings. So my friends got my a Book by Chimamanda, Half of a Yellow sun. Of course before now, i have read several books on the rise and fall of the Biafran State, my favourite was Chinua Achebe "There was a country". For some reasons however, i avoided Half Of A Yellow Sun. until i got it as a gift and I could not close the book until i finished reading it
The author was very cruel, i asked myself if she ever took it into consideration that its humans with emotions who read the book and not robots. Of course i totally understand the tragedy of war stories but this is different.
In the book I shed tears when Kainene brought the news that Ugwu had died. It was much easier for me to deal with it -after all its one of many war sad tragedy tales- until i read the part that he survived and i felt thankful. Other characters that died like Eberechi, Okeoma felt normal to me even if i felt sad what made me really upset was how the book ended without writing what exactly happened to Kainene. I felt she was mean and not fair, at least the novel was filled with so many tragedy, an happy ending would not have been a bad idea or even if Kainene had die everyone would know exactly how the story ended and mourn her death or something. The pictures were so vivid that certain characters remained constant to me and Kainene was just like Olanna, Odenigbo, Richard and Ugwu. I think proper sending has to be written at least to satisfy my curiosity of what ever may have happened to Kainene.
Am aware lots of people got missing during the war in correlation with the vivid picture Chimamanda painted but why Kainene?
Anyway, This is such an evocative and poetic novel. The language, the story, the characters, the setting—this is nearly a perfect novel. I was truly engaged and greatly informed.

Bridget95:
My father told me how the Nigerian army would storm a village force hundreds into rooms and set the house ablaze.heavily
Pregnant women caught and their stomach ripped open with a dagger and the fetus brought out as the woman lay helplessly to die.
how fleeing civilians where buried alive,shot dead and buried in mass graves.
how old people and babies were fling on the ground and ran over by moving vehicles .
The Nigerian army committed terrible heinous crimes against the igbo population who were innocent but cut up in war.

It was really a terrible experience.The reason why the president still remain wicked to igbos is linked to his wickedness he and his soldiers perpetrated against the innocent igbo population during their bloodletting and genocide.

Bridget95:
[b]My father told me how the Nigerian army would storm a village force hundreds into rooms and set the house ablaze.[/b]heavily
Pregnant women caught and their stomach ripped open with a dagger and the fetus brought out as the woman lay helplessly to die.
how fleeing civilians where buried alive,shot dead and buried in mass graves.
how old people and babies were fling on the ground and ran over by moving vehicles .
The Nigerian army committed terrible heinous crimes against the igbo population who were innocent but cut up in war.

It was really a terrible experience.The reason why the president still remain wicked to igbos is linked to his wickedness he and his soldiers perpetrated against the innocent igbo population during their bloodletting and genocide.

MarieSucre:


Please do not watch the movie. I went to the cinema to watch it and I was greatly disappointed.
I think this is her only book I am yet to read. I need motivation to pick it up.

MarieSucre:


Please do not watch the movie. I went to the cinema to watch it and I was greatly disappointed.
I think this is her only book I am yet to read. I need motivation to pick it up.

The movie is a fraction of the actual picture painted in her book..

It's worth every time though be ready to shed some tears , and maybe underline some deep words (that's if you read the way I do)..


@ OP, I smiled when I saw the 'happily ever after'.. C.N.A has never been such writer (call her a realist, and I will agree).. That's for the likes of Danielle S. Her books are so thought provoking that they make you feel something, leaving you at an edge.

I remember when I first read 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I took out my frustrations on everybody as I threw my dad off balance with questions about the civil war.. The explanations were gory .. I even had thoughts of doing her a mail (I searched for it) to ask series of questions but along the line, I had to caution myself.. 'It's her work and she has the right to write it the best way she feels.'

Good read..

Bridget95:
My father told me how the Nigerian army would storm a village force hundreds into rooms and set the house ablaze.heavily
Pregnant women caught and their stomach ripped open with a dagger and the fetus brought out as the woman lay helplessly to die.
how fleeing civilians where buried alive,shot dead and buried in mass graves.
how old people and babies were fling on the ground and ran over by moving vehicles .
The Nigerian army committed terrible heinous crimes against the igbo population who were innocent but cut up in war.

It was really a terrible experience.The reason why the president still remain wicked to igbos is linked to his wickedness he and his soldiers perpetrated against the innocent igbo population during their bloodletting and genocide.

padiga047:
Exaggerated? @olabs059

Please if something did not happen to you, dare you not call people's dire experiences Exaggerated. You don't have that right.

And no, we don't seclude or hate a certain divide because of what happened in the past, we relive it, and hold each other's hand praying it will not happen again.

SAY NO TO WAR

AGHA AJOKA!!!