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I Dreamed of Africa is one of those books that gets assimilated into your bloodstream and becomes a part of you. Kuki's perspective on Kenya's landscape and the lifestyle she afforded there is remarkable. It touches you in places you knew existed but havent visited in a while. She takes all her love, all her pain, and all her strength and uses words as the medium, converting them into truth and beauty. The wonder of this world is seen through the African lens. This is one of the better books out there.
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This book is a testimony to the human spirit and how one can overcome extreme adversity and channel that into productive life altering experiences.
I laughed and cried and didn't want this book to end. It was so motivating and not at all pretentious. It made me feel as though I could accomplish anything by merely wanting it enough. Mrs Gallman articulated the surroundings so well that it made you feel as though you were sitting next to her. I mourned each time something horrid occurred and laughed at the little things in her every day experiences.
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I am utterly stunned that this book got so many positive reviews from readers. I got about two-thirds of the way through it before I finally let myself quit reading it.
Gallman has lead an interesting life; there's no question of that. The only trouble is, she's not a good writer. She tends to tell the reader things--like that her son was a special person--rather than showing us. And she tries way too hard to add mystical foreshadowing. Example: her son was killed from a poisonous snakebite. Years before, when he got his first pet python, she said that she felt uneasy. This is supposed to show us, the readers, how in tune with the world she is, how she's probably psychic. Excuse me, but I think any mother would be a little uneasy about their child having a lethal pet.
Do not waste your time with this boring, painful book.
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I have little to add to the other positive reviews of this book; but half the reviewers seem to be criticising the author, rather than the book. While I do not deny it has faults (the fact that English is not the author's first language sometimes weakens the expression of her clearly genuine feelings)I am astonished at the resentment expressed in many reviews. Specifically, over the fact that the author happens to be a white and presumably wealthy European - as though this fact automatically makes her a hypocrite and her views and experiences less worthy... and furthermore, that this a fault of the book itself! Judge the book on its own worth, instead of making moralistic judgments about the author.
Ms Gallman doesn't claim this is the ultimate African story - it is the personal story of her life, her deep love of Africa and of her friends and family, and in my opinion of her remarkably brave journey. Many reviewers seem to criticise this book for failing to be what it was never intended to be in the first place.
Oh, and all the spiteful comments about the "rich white Europeans" owning airplanes!!!
For God's sake, we are not talking about private luxury jets here! Clearly reviewers have completely disregarded that this is AFRICA, where people have immense properties, where it takes hours and hours to drive on dusty and dangerous roads to your nearest neighbours. How some people have gained the impression they were simply flitting about in style for their own pleasure is quite beyond me. About the only way of practical transport to most places was by plane, and it would seem these were small and often rundown planes, where people took their life in their hands each time they flew them. So please, get over the fact that most people had planes!!
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After having read the book, then seen the movie and still loving the story line, I would recommend this delightful autobiography to anyone. At times happy, other times tearful, this book/film is all the more real because of the well composed story and well acted movie.
Kuki Gallman was everything I had imagined her to be after having seen the film. And having found how to correctly pronounce Paolo's name was another bonus!
When Kuki and her husband Paolo uproot themselves to the wildness of Africa they are faced with many new difficulties, which they overcome in time.
There are quite notable differences between the film and movie and one that perturbed me immensely was that Paolo's wife and two daughters from a previous marriage are excluded from the film. I believed them to have played an important role in the book, but the film producers obviously didn't share this insight.
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