very slow beginning but gave it the benefit of my the doubt, because I enjoyed Coates non-fiction books so much.
But ultimately, closed the books after getting not even halfway through. He writes beautifully and grandly, but core elements of fiction -- distinctive characters, a compelling plot line -- are missing.
Coates seems to assume we are familiar with all of the usual stuff of slave narratives, and that he doesn't have to re-hash that. But the mystery at the core of the book -- what magical powers the narrator possess -- had still not been clear to me by page 150, and I have up trying to care.
Talk not with scorn of Authors- it was the chattering of the Geese that saved the Capitol. Coleridge
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