http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/04/21/stacked-week-2/ Your head will collapse if there's nothing in it Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:16:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/04/21/stacked-week-2/comment-page-1/#comment-308 DJ Cayenne Fri, 24 Feb 2006 04:00:40 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/04/21/stacked-week-2/#comment-308 Well that’s too bad. Dag. Well that’s too bad. Dag.

]]> http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/04/21/stacked-week-2/comment-page-1/#comment-307 Dr J Fri, 24 Feb 2006 04:00:23 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/04/21/stacked-week-2/#comment-307 I was underwhelmed by The Known World. I guess there are people out there who don’t know that there were free blacks in the South before the Civil War, that those people faced enormous pressures, and that many suffered very human tragedies. Those folks will probably be bowled over by this book. But if you know that already, my guess is that the writing isn’t going to win you over. It didn’t me, anyway. I was underwhelmed by The Known World. I guess there are people out there who don’t know that there were free blacks in the South before the Civil War, that those people faced enormous pressures, and that many suffered very human tragedies. Those folks will probably be bowled over by this book. But if you know that already, my guess is that the writing isn’t going to win you over. It didn’t me, anyway.

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