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Have no interest in most black authors,most are overrated and I think is probably a deterence to people reading because they are assigned mandatory reading for high school kids and it turns them off from reading. Give me a good adventure story like Ivanhoe,Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe or any H. Rider Haggard or H.G. Wells story and most young men will read it. Give them a feminist story and force them to read and you are fighting against human nature, most young men are bored at what they are forced to read in school.

Professor of Economics Thomas Sowell is a sane libertarian/conservative from California who just happens to be black-his books are about economics and how that works-and what doesn’t work, like social justice and communism. Well worth reading-as are the books of Justice Clarence Thomas-especially his most recent-his autobiography written with Michael Pack and Mark Paoletta. Sensible people come from all ethnic groups, just like overrated ones do...

I’m female but not into those rape and lace romance novels, or most books geared only towards women-I like Bernard Cornwell’s novels-good swashbucklers/adventure-mostly correct on the historical facts/people, does not give any group an excuse for bad behavior like brutality, etc-and definitely not written for the romance lovers. If a book does not grab attention or incite curiosity, it probably is not worth reading...