Waterstones Conversations With Myself
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Price: £16.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Conversations With Myself is a moving collection of letters, diary entries and other writing that provides a rare chance to see the other side of Nelson Mandela's life, in his own voice: direct, clear, private. An international bestseller, Conversations With Myself is an intensely personal book that complements his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. In his foreword to Nelson Mandela's book, President Barack Obama writes: 'Conversations With Myself does the world an extraordinary service in giving us [a] picture of Mandela the man.' Conversations With Myself gives readers insight to the darkest hours of Nelson Mandela's twenty-seven years of imprisonment and his troubled dreams in his cell on Robben Island. It contains the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long Walk to Freedom, notes from Madiba's famous speeches, and even doodles made during meetings. There are photos from his life, journals written while on the run during the anti-apartheid struggles of the early 1960s, and conversations with friends in almost 70 hours of recorded interviews. An intimate journey from the first stirrings of his political conscience to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Conversations With Myself is an extraordinary glimpse of the man behind one of the world's most beloved public figures.' More revealing of the man than his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom - and in many respects more moving as well' F.W. De Klerk'A book that breaks the heart and then makes it sing' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer Books of the Year' Intensely moving, raw and unmediated, told in real time with all the changes in perspective that brings, over the years, mixing the prosaic with the momentous. Health concerns, dreams, political initiatives spill out together, to provide the fullest picture yet of Mandela.' Peter Godwin, Observer.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780230755949
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9780230755949
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Author: Momo
Rating: 5
Review: Nice book.
Author: Amazon Customer
Rating: 3
Review: my first impression is that this book is to be read in conjunction with his autobiography 'long walk to freedom' which I have not yet read, the book is often mentioned - this fact however did not stop me from understanding or enjoying the book in question. "Conversations with myself" seems to be a collection of bits and pieces scattered along not always in chronological order, letters and events do not seem to follow any order at all, it jumps a lot, for example at the end of Chapter 6 it follows events in 1962 only to jump to the 80s in Chapter 7, in chapter 9 letters are firstly dated 1970, 1976, 1980 only to come back to 1979 at the very end. let's have a look at the technical side of this audio book: I would have separated the tracks differently, for example I would have given each letter and each session of conversation its own individual track don't matter how short. I understand the reader is Southafrican, even though I had to get used to his accent and do not find it 100% easy. this audio book features always the same reader which does not really make sense especially in the conversations sessions, one does not always understand who is the interviewer and who is Mandela, where does the questions and comments start and where are his answers? one does not understand who is saying what. sometimes he stammers in a conversational way (although I suspect he is litterary copying Mandela's answers). at the beginning there is music and music is also used at the end of every chapter to mark the end of each chapter and this is great but when the music starts the reader has not yet finished the sentence, the music is so loud that it is not easy to hear the end of the sentence - basically they should have in my opinion either inserted the music after the sentence is finished or if they wanted to mix the reader with the music I would have put the music at a lower volume to put the listener in the position to understand what has been read. as it is now one cannot hear the end of the sentence because the music is too loud. on a technicality being a professional reader myself, I noticed that although the reader does his best he probably has not been trained to swallow the saliva in the mouth before starting to read, to me it's a bit irritating as I listen to words with the letter c and k like can and speaker: not everyone notices these things but I do!!!! it's better when one swallows the moisture in the mouth especially before pronouncing words with c and k because the reading is smoother and cleaner. the extremely interesting thing is that in the last CD this audio book contains extracts from original interviews where Nelson Mandela himself is talking, it's nothing new to what one has listened to so far but at least it's him talking although the quality is not always great. the book does not seem to be particularly revealing about the private man, he is declining all questions about his ex-wife or should I say ex-wives? I understand he wants to keep certain things private but I don't agree with people who say this book is particularly revealing, but then again I have not read his autobiography perhaps 'along walk to freedom' is even less revealing so that one can define this book as revealing about himself? Overall this is a great book but in my opinion it could have been better edited and organized.
