Half of a yellow sun - persevere?

[margoandjerry]

Am almost half way through and not enjoying. Finding it a bit hard going and a bit of an annoying polemic.

Just got to the section which mentions "Man must whack" and thought it seemed a bit odd and clunky. Just googled it and it turns out it was a real article and seems that the author has been stewing about it for decades and was just waiting to write a book to throw that anecdote in.

Dunno. Do I persevere?

My book group did this and we all liked it, even me.

(Must admit tho I much preferred the Anne Tyler I read afterwards)

I found it a bit heavy going at times ? the way it?s written in terms of the juggling of events was unnecessary imo.
But yes I felt it was worth the read in the end.

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Good question. I'm about half way through too but feel a bit unmotivated to pick it up. I'm enjoying the setting and characters but there doesn't seem to be much happening.

Yes I really liked it.

a bit haevy going at times, but worth it foe me if only because I learnt about a piece of history I knew nothing about.

if you don't like past first 100 pages junk it, whatever anyone says

life's too short

plenty of great books to spend your time reading

I thought it was really good.

I read The poisonwood bible before it. I'm hoping this would sort of 'compliment' or give another perspective of the same time. Does it?

we did it for book group- in fact, it was my choice and I won with it because everyone loved it (we score the books). But, that said, if you're not enjoying it, don't read it but then, if you're half way through you're kind of over the hump !

I loved this book because the author spent so much time building up the characters but the story takes a while to get going. Agree with others posters that life is too short but on the other hand if you are half way there... Also loved Purple Hibiscus by the same author.

OK so I persevered. I liked it in retrospect but not at the time iykwim. I found it a slog to read (some of the writing a bit clunky I thought). But now that I finished it I feel that I'm glad I read it and it was worth reading.

It certainly conjured up some images of a place I know nothing about and I liked the Ogwu character - I thought he aged from boy to man very well.

Still think a decent editor would have helped.