- ISBN13: 9780878910045
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
i’ll admit the begging of the book is alright….but i’m in the middle, and i can barely finish going…This book is a great way to promote white racism…page after page of the white man being the devil…you can sum up the book thus far in a simple sentence…
“Malcom does drugs, finds “Allah,” and hates white people.”
Rating: 1 / 5
A good example why one should not hate, because if you do you will not succeed as Malcolm X did not succeed. A real disappointment. a poor example of displaying “change” and the such. Anger and hate gets you no where, as we can see.
Rating: 2 / 5
First of all, what kind of autobiography is written by someone other than the subject of the autobiography? That would be like me writing the autobiography of President Clinton. The proper word here is biography NOT autobiography. Poor Malcom. He spends an entire life learning the obvious. I was not impressed. Of course, anger is a dead end. Of course, the Muslims aren’t all they would like us to think they are. Of course, a life of petty crime is a dead end. If he had actually shut up for a while and listened to other people, he could have saved himself a lot of trouble, and maybe still be alive. But some people are so dense they will not listen but need to hit their heads against the wall over and over again. These are the unteachable ones who need to reinvent the wheel rather than borrow it.
Rating: 2 / 5
I won’t call him the author or call this work an autobiography, Malcolm X didn’t write anything, instead he did the only thing he was good at doing: Ran his mouth at Alex Haley.
Black youth are encouraged to read these ravings; unfortunately, when they put this book down, they are led to believe that all the meanderings, half-truths and outright lies within its pages are facts or in the least, well grounded opinions. To offset this problem an impartial edition needs to be published, footnoted where Mistuh Malcolm throws out some “self-learned fact” or vents his contradictory philosophies, faulty because he still seethes hatred for whitey deep down.
As a side-note, I’ve noticed that almost all the so-called “African-American Classics” have an average of 4 or 5 stars. I find it very suspicious — to say the least.
Is Amazon.com refusing to post most of the negative reviews of this book and others in this genre? After all, I’ve seen more negative reviews for the Holy Bible or the Quran or the Vedas. Yet, you want me to believe that this book or Iceberg Slim’s “Pimp: The Story of My Life” are such well-crafted masterpieces of literature that they received only one or two 1 star/2 star reviews?
We don’t want to offend black folks, do would we Amazon?
Rating: 2 / 5
Looking back, after reading this book, I notice that Malcolm X was a very interesting man with a very interesting life. However, the book itself is definitely not thrilling, it’s long, it drags on, and there are many unneeded things. Malcolm X had a controversial, but interesting life, but you could easily learn about it by watching the movie while saving a BUNCH of time.
Rating: 3 / 5