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Title: On a Move : The Story of Mumia Abu Jamal by Terry Bisson ISBN: 0-87486-901-3 Publisher: Litmus Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book!
Comment: I was suddenly interested in Mumia so I decided to purchase this book as a beginning. I am very glad I did. It is an easy read but it gives you all you need to know about this political prisoner. Bisson told his(Mumia's) story in an almost poetic form and I loved it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Gripping reading
Comment: This book is very interestingly written. It's not exactly "street prose" as one reviewer put it, but just shockingly to the point. The writer says in one sentence what most would take paragraphs to convey. It doesn't seem to matter to the writer whether he is writing in first/second person etc, he just conveys his message - beautifully.
Whether you believe in Mumia's innocence or not, this book is a good start to look into the complicated issue. For those reviewers who don't even review the book and simply blast Mumia or his followers, you have missed the point. I personally believe in Mumia's innocence and the system's failure to give him a fair trial (I'm a law studend and have read his trial transcripts, the opinions, etc). But that isn't the point. This is a good book, thoroughly gripping - I read it in 5 hours or so.
Rating: 2
Summary: Only Fudges Some Major Facts
Comment: This book is interestingly written in 'street' prose, with certain lines and bits emphasized and then re-emphasized to hit home. This story will help a reader looking to find a first hand perspective into the Black Panther movement of the sixties and into the Philadelphia police nightmare of the seventies. As long as you approach this book knowing that Mumia is NOT a political prisoner (he is a murderer) and was NEVER silenced for writing the truth (he spread vicious libel throughout his career as a journalist), and you look into those facts for yourself, then this book can be for you what it is for me... a dishonest biography of a man set against an honest background of the turbulant and nightmarish time for African- Americans in the years following the Civil Rights Movement.
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Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi ISBN: 081297106X Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 |
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