Run for the Trees

“Run for the Trees” by James S. Rand is a thoroughly and terribly racist book. A thoroughly and terribly sexist book. A thoroughly terrible book of exploitation and colonialism. A thoroughly entertaining adventure story. A thoroughly terrible guilty pleasure, that I would deny to the death having enjoyed, if I were not so comfortable in the conviction that I have not a speck of racism, sexism, or dreams of exploitation in my soul. Right? RIGHT?

I would be ever so grateful if a woman with melanin expression above the world norm, who is also a former citizen of an exploited and powerless population, would see fit to also write a review which said that she, too, simply enjoyed the adventure and the writing.

Please. I need to be able to show more look people in the eye again. show less

Quite easily the most poltically incorrect book I've ever read, but boy its a lot of fun. Sexism, racism, slaughtering endangered animals, there's enough political incorrectness in here to shock a battalion of feminists, animal rightsers and anti-discrimination campaigners. Women are for sex and cooking, pure & simple, blacks are inferior to whites without any questions asked, and anything that walks, flies or crawls can (and should be) shot indiscriminately. I really cant tell whether the author truly believes these are justifiable viewpoints, or he is just trying really really hard to evoke the mores and attitudes of colonial Africa. That said, unless you are a feminist, animal rightser, or anti-discrimination campaigner , you will show more find this book a riot. Its a full-blooded romp through a violent, blood-soaked (literally) Africa. The pace never lets up, its full of thrills and spills (and shooting, lots of shooting). The pleasure you will get out of this book is a very very guilty pleasure, but pleasure nevertheless. show less