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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Inforum Leisure Book Club Discussion for Same Kind of Different as Me

If you want to post a comment or start a discussion about the book while you're reading Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall & Denver Moore, please be sure to preface your comments with any spoiler warnings if need be.
Same Kind of Different As Me - By: Ron Hall, Denver Moore
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  1. AnonymousOctober 28, 2011 at 3:12 PM

    Just started the book. As with "The Help", I'm struggling with the phonetically written chapters of the book. I got comfortable with it then and very much enjoyed the book. Jury is still out with this one, though. Anyone else take issue with this method of writing?
    Christine

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  2. Jennifer BakerNovember 2, 2011 at 9:06 PM

    I know what you mean, Christine. Considering that Denver told us multiple times that he'd never been to school and couldn't read or write, it's obvious that the structure and organization (and probably most of the word choice) was done by the co-author, so I did find her use of first person in Denver's vernacular to be distracting, rather than helpful. Plus, you can't tell me that Ron, being a Texan, didn't have colloquialisms and an accent that also could have been written phonetically---why didn't she exploit his as well? Of all the books I've read recently that have incorporated vernacular, I think Rebecca Skloot, in the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, executed this method very well, yielding a very realistic and honest portrayal of the characters.

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