The BURIED Book Club discussion

Aha! I didn't bring Tutuola over here at first, because he's got one book (i.e. two novella-length works in one volume) which has been somewhat too widely read and reviewed to be "buried." But it appears that he has a career's worth of buried works to go with it, and they should not be neglected.

In fact, I somehow had supposed that Tutuola had just vanished after My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Now I discover that some of his buried works even have ebook versions. So I'll be picking up The Brave African Huntress soon.

I think very highly of Mr. Tutuola, and to promote him I'll link to a review of the only work/works I've read by him so far, my review of Palm Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

I hope you'll all give him a try soon, especially if you enjoy a very unique voice. Here's a snippet:

Even "Evil of evils" who was the ruler of all the evils and who was always seeking evils about, evil-joking, evil-walking, evil-playing, evil-laughing, evil-talking, evil-dressing, evil-moving, worshipping evils in the church of evils and living in the evil-house with his evil family, everything he does is evil, attended the service too, but he was late before he arrived and when he shook hands with me on that day, I was shocked as if I touch a "live electric wire", but my friend was signalling to me with his eyes not to shake hands with him to avoid the shock but I did not understand.

I've also only read the unburieds, but have long been intending to dig deeper into Tutuola! Thanks for bringing him here / reminding me!

This guy's other books better be reallyreally good because those two popular books of his have just waaaay too many ratings to be down here in this sepulcher. At any rate, I've got Feather Woman of the Jungle because The Village Bookshop didn't have the two-in-one of his popular books.

I'm admittedly in doubt regarding the later books, but only a reading will tell. A quick perusal of an African Huntress sample made me think... perhaps not quite... hmmm.

Zadignose wrote: "I'm admittedly in doubt regarding the later books, but only a reading will tell. A quick perusal of an African Huntress sample made me think... perhaps not quite... hmmm."

Whatever the quality/value of his Knot=Big=Two, those Two are just Too Big to leave in the regular Meeting Hall of the unBURIED. So I've filed him over here, recognizing him as a KNOWN author with (still) BURIED Books.

For the record, the data says that Palm-Wine has 1300 ratings and 132 reviews. That's HUGE!

Yeah, I'm sure this is the right zone. Now to dig deeper.

I heap much praise on Pauper, Brawler, and Slanderer, like Pauper heaps many heaps with his hoe with the miraculous power of giant.

Redundantly, I'll announce it elsewhere within the group too, in a wink of crab.