Name: Black boy
Rating: 3.78494623655914 (93 reviews)

Wright, R.

a record of childhood and youth.

Black boy

Aristophanes

Lysistrata

Imagine writing something that can be funny for more than 2000 years 

Gemma

Irreverent and perfectly funny. This is the best translation yet 

Aadya J 

Trish

This was such a comic relief after weeks of Homer. This play is lighthearted and funny, though it deals with several important subjects. If it weren't on my syllabus, I probably wouldn't have heard of it for a long while. But I'm glad I got a chance to read it, though I'd be interested in getting hold of a more traditionally translated edition. I'm not sure I loved the liberties this translator took with the text.

A comedic play from the classical age of drama in which the women of Greece vow to withhold sex from their husbands until they end the brutal war between Athens and Sparta.

Hope Brockway

I despise sexual humor, and that's basically what this play is about. 

I find this kind of humor crude, vile, and not funny. This play's views of women, sex, and marriage are disgusting. Literally everything in this play hinted at sex. 

If you read this in a literature class, beware.

Richard Wright

Black Boy

Daryl Houston

Initially, I had ignorantly expected fiction, so this was a departure from my usual reading. I found it a little slow, but powerful at times. The long section about communism that wrapped the book up interested me less than the rest. Reading some of the episodes described in the book that took place nearly a century ago and connecting them to very similar racially motivated brutality in the present day was sobering.

Black boy a record of childhood and youth.

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