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Deacon King Kong: Barack Obama Favourite Read & Oprah's Book Club Pick

Deacon King Kong: Barack Obama Favourite Read & Oprah's Book Club Pick

byJames McBride
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Gary Cassidy
5.0 out of 5 starsUplifting
Reviewed in Australia on 26 September 2020
A few books help you reflect on what is important in your life. This is one of those. Great book. Thank you James McBride.
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Bruce
2.0 out of 5 starsDeacon King Kong Fail
Reviewed in Australia on 23 August 2020
We are reading this book for our book club everyone agreed since it was recommended buy the Times and Oprah it was worth a read. I have had this book for over a month now and am struggling to get through it. The story started off well with the Deacon involved in a shooting but after half a dozen pages for me that was it. Nicknames for all the characters is confusing and the story line just jumps all over the place. I just wish they would get on with it.
I have struggled to get to nearly halfway through it but doubt I will finish it.
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Bruce
2.0 out of 5 stars Deacon King Kong Fail
Reviewed in Australia on 23 August 2020
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We are reading this book for our book club everyone agreed since it was recommended buy the Times and Oprah it was worth a read. I have had this book for over a month now and am struggling to get through it. The story started off well with the Deacon involved in a shooting but after half a dozen pages for me that was it. Nicknames for all the characters is confusing and the story line just jumps all over the place. I just wish they would get on with it.
I have struggled to get to nearly halfway through it but doubt I will finish it.
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Gary Cassidy
5.0 out of 5 stars Uplifting
Reviewed in Australia on 26 September 2020
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A few books help you reflect on what is important in your life. This is one of those. Great book. Thank you James McBride.
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Mr Paul W Rettke
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read!
Reviewed in Australia on 10 January 2021
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I've always enjoyed reading James McBride's books, but this one is outstanding. A truly great read.
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Phil Gough
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow
Reviewed in Australia on 22 June 2021
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What a great read It is one of those unusual can’t put it down books I’ll have to read more of James McBride
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Robyn G. Stephens
4.0 out of 5 stars It’s about being human.
Reviewed in Australia on 9 November 2020
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Sharp, funny, a little hopeful and a little bleak. I enjoyed this little world and it’s wonderfully flawed people.
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John Dixon
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
Reviewed in Australia on 28 February 2021
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A beautiful nuanced story about love. Quite compelling. The prose is sheer delight. You will find yourself re-reading passages just to savour them for a second time.
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Megan S
3.0 out of 5 stars Slow start
Reviewed in Australia on 14 September 2020
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Struggling to get into it, I’m hoping it kicks up?!
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Angela Bayley
4.0 out of 5 stars Clever
Reviewed in Australia on 23 December 2020
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Inventive and smart
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Fugitive Pieces
5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly McBride’s Greatest Novel - So Far!
Reviewed in Australia on 13 January 2021
The richness of the characters and the language made reading this a joy. It is almost Runyonesque in its exuberance and humour. But always the reality of the poverty, ethnic and police corruption and brutality are not far away.
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carole b
5.0 out of 5 stars The life and death of Deacon King Kong
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2020
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I really recommend this book by James Mc Bride,its set in 1969 in an housing project in South Brooklyn,one day very unexpectedly Deacon,also known as old Sportcoat,a seventy one year old local man shoot a nineteen year old drug dealer,Deems Clemens. Every character in the book is kind of related by the fact they all lived locally ,its a rich tapestry of lives,from all ages,its harrowing at times and very moving also.
I really like the fact that Deacon's late wife ,Hettie is present during the all book.
The past like the start of the church and Elefante's dad story are as important as the present story line.
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