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 Honest and beautifully written November 5, 2009
E. A. Bloustein (Brooklyn, New York United States)
A woman who grew up in Africa recommended this book to me. I have never been to Africa. Fuller manages to convey her love and attachment to the continent without in any way downplaying the difficult moral and physical challenges of growing up there as a white kid during the war for independence. I was sorry to come to the end of the book. Her portrait of her parents was astonishing to me.
Memorable Read October 16, 2009
C. F. Turner
In Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller provides a book that truly captured me. Her book, an account of her life and growing up in Africa, presents a corner of the world that I found I know little about other than headline news banners. The surroundings, culture, politics, and life struggles of the location she lived in were unfamiliar and fascinating to me. Within her accounting of the environment she grew up in Ms. Fuller provides the reader a personal story that makes the news banners real and powerful at a human level.
What was familiar to me and just as fascinating was her story of family life. Her mother, Nicola, is definitely a memorable character. My sisters and I grew up in a family with a memorable character also. I have never been able to explain to my wife that the craziness was not hell at all to me. At the end of her book, actually in the reader's guide, she provides the best description of life in that environment - passionate, wonderful, troubled, oppressive, chaotic, beautiful - that I have ever read. Fantastic.
Enjoy the book. If the cover alone doesn't grab, just start reading. The book will do the rest.
 Delightfully honest September 26, 2009
Ole S. Schwensen (Copenhagen Denmark)
When you happen to know the areas of Africa and the years Alexandra Fuller writes about, you can only be charmed with the way she describes the life of her family and the delightful honesty with an often humorous tvist she takes her audience along the dusty roads
of Africa.
Its the real deal.. September 2, 2009
Ndeke (Allentown, PA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This account of a childhood in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) is as real as if you were living it..
I lived in the same places, travelled in the same way, went to the same school, spoke the same way and experienced the same type of life style as Alexandra Fuller.. Her account of her childhood brought memories of my childhood too! I lived in the Congo.. went to boarding school in Salisburty (Zimbabwe) and I relate to every single thing she wrote.. nothing was exagerated. I loved her book! Worth reading over and over..
Don't Let This One Get Away August 12, 2009
Reader from Texas (Azle, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Purchased on store employees recommendation. While I have never been that interested in anything Africa, she seemed sure that this one was not to be missed. She was right. An interesting read!
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