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>> No.10905010 [View]
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I thoroughly enjoy this book and I sort of wish it was talked about more on /lit/. Marlon James shows he is versatile with his prose, balancing American English and Jamaican patois and spreading a narrative over an ambitiously sized cast of characters all with different perspectives, ambitious, motivations and understandings of - basically - what is a fictionalised account of an assassination attempt on Bob Marley. It's one of the most ambitious gangster epics I've read that spans two decades, the slums of Jamaica to the crack epidemic of America, fraud, politics, music, drugs, hardcore sex, grotesque violence, manipulation, gangland strategy, etc. It's fucking intense and I don't know how Marlon James hasn't gotten lost in writing this beast.

A real treat, would recommend as long as you don't mind "battyboy" this and "r'osscloth" that. If you're not used to the patois, it doesn't feel alienating as the context it's used in makes sense (and you probably know what much of it means already).

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>>10840966
> great prose and sense of rhythm to stream-of-consciousness monologues
> multiple characters with varying perspectives
> genuine sense of 1970s Jamaica - 1990s Jamaica
> genuinely unsettling yet darkly comic

>> No.10776921 [View]
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Any other books like this that just drop you into the deep end of a country's seedy underworld? Preferably third-world countries?

Fifty pages in and this book is fucking devastating.

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Tyler

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mi fiddi wagwarn
ey ey aye fi widdi mi battyhole wid dis

Scott, Sean, Shaun, Seth, Sophie, Sarah, Samuel, Sasha, Sefton, Sidney

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rub me battyhole Sarah mek me scram rasclat fi widdi wit ih ye dirtee rasclat lmao

also for any Ryans

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Pete/Peter
Phil/Philip/Phillip/Phillippa
Charlie/Charley/Charlotte
Willis/Will/Bill/William
Elliot/Elliott/Ellie/Elsa
Sarah/Sara/Zara
Arthur/Art/Artie/Arty
Harrison
Richard/Dick/Richie

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>>9627790
raj is the only spicy name i know

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Dara
Ashley
John
Andrew

and any variations on those names too btw

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Don't be a sissy, just read it.

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Potential classic.

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