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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wanted this forum created so that I could talk about books I didn't like. Maybe I'm just not understanding some of these books and maybe they're not written for me but there are still he popular books I really don't like. I won't make them all because that would likely give my identity away.

One I haven't mentioned to anybody is Maya Angelou's 'i know why the caged bird sings". Not to trivialize what she went through but I really finished the book like  seemed like what did I just read. How critical can I be of an autobiography? Especially if it made her who she is? But seeing this put in the same leagues or above invisible man, black boy, native son. I just don't see it.

They're are several others and I hope this doesn't turn into a bash me or bash Maya because I love her other works (especially poetry) but I'm not a fan of that book. [/quote]

I don't get what you didn't like about it.  Be more specific.    I didnt like Invisible man.  I couldn't even finish it while I know why a caged bird sings was very engaging.[/quote]

It's supposed to be inspiring but she trivializes sex, gets pregnant by a seemingly random dude didn't really talk about loving the baby or hot that changed her or anything. I just felt no love for her character at that point. [/quote]
Did you miss the part where she was raped as a little girl by her mom’s boyfriend??[/quote]

I was expecting a novelization of Still I Rise, but got something more comparable to Ain't I A Woman. This doesn't make it a bad text, but there was no point of realization like "this is what made me, now I'll go be great". I'm left at the end (now we know this is Maya's story so we know she becomes great but) wondering if the story just intendeds to repeat the cycles of abuse that Maya went through on her children. Not necessarily by Maya but by those who went through similar journeys. So that brings me to it. What made Maya different? Why did she last? Why did she become great? I'm glad it wasn't summed up in some one line thing like "she worked hard", but I was left with no inspiration for her journey. I don't have many autobiographies to compare it to, especially from black women, but normally I can find these type of moments in the story. I thought it was when she started showing again but then the ending?

I don't know. I'll say I respect it and respect her, but I can't say I like it. [/quote]

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