Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

I didn't want the book to end. I wish that Ms. Fuller had written so much more about her life in Africa. I couldn't put the book down. If you like biographies at all, try this one. It makes me sorry that my parents didn't have the courage to take us away to Africa for a few years.

I wonder if I would have liked this book more if it hadn't been Entertainment Weekly's pick for nonfiction book of the year. I love Entertainment Weekly so much that nothing I could have read would have been able to live up to those kinds of accolades.

This story different had a different setting than a lot of the other memoirs I've been reading lately, but more or less it was just more of the same. Drunken parents doing crazy things, moving the kids around at random, yawn. There were wonderful descriptions of Africa. Most of them I found oppressive and made me want to bathe after each chapter. There was just so much talk about sweat and poop. Poop and sweat.

Alexandra Fuller's "Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight" will bring you into her world of a childhood spent in the wilds of Africa. Hers is a colorful memoir that you won't soon forget. While reading this book, I literally carried it with me everywhere I went so that I could read it during any spare moments I had during the day. Run, don't walk, to purchase this book and buy a spare to share with everyone you know!

I like this book a lot I couldn't put it down. I enjoyed her stories . For anyone who wants to know about growing up in Africa. A must read

Alright, so her childhood was a bit different than your average white middle-income childhood.

Should this motivate anybody to write a completely non-imaginative, devoid of any insights book?

Don't be fooled by the exotic side of it. A poor writer can ruin a story, regardless of the exotic locale.

If you were expecting to find an "international" jewel like Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake" or Zadie Smith's "On Beauty", you will be greatly disappointed.

If you are into Africa, read something that has more than the exotic place to say for itself. Ben Okri's "The Famished Road" (booker prize winner) or The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Paperback)
by Amos Tutuola will be much better choices.