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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

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sadiesmith's review against another edition

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adventurous dark hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

potterpav's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

2.0

i feel like i cannot give a proper review of this book from my subjective opinion because this is non-fiction, so bears a terrible weight on me that this all happened to one individual man, whilst knowing that his torture and brutalisation is not unique. this book was difficult to read in some places, not only because of the content but also because of it being written in the 1780s, so the language is very very very dense and there are entire paragraphs that are just one sentence, broken up by semi-colons. for 236 pages, it felt longer than a dostoyevsky