Invisible Man

This is a book that I will likely remember for a long time, although I am not sure what to say about it, other than it's about:
- a Black man living underground in Harlem in a type of basement room lighted with strings of lights;
- his relating about his early life in the South and about moving North;
- his struggle for work and problems that arose;
- the racial issues he saw and fought against;
- his involvement in a "brotherhood" movement;
- his becoming disillusioned, angry, desperate;
- his philosophying and the thought-provoking statements that make the reader think...

What else can I say? It's a great read.

Great mesh of sociopolitical philosophy and a gripping story.

I've read this twice now, and definitely appreciated it more the second time around. A great story and a great commentary on the social/political situation of the time.

read this twice--once out loud to my son!

This book challenged me in a way that not many books have. It made me think, to try and understand what it would be like to be a black american and left me speechless at the cruelty of it at times. Even more confronting was the relationships between so called brothers and also between other black americans. For those of you who care to see things from a very different perspective this is a wonderful book.

Fabulous science fiction book for any time. It is amusing and heralds a warning for using science without conscience or caution.

There are innumerable books out there regarding the Civil Rights movement, race riots, etc. but this is without a doubt the best. Following the life and journeys of a black man trying to make it in a Jim Crow America, it is perhaps one of the best portrayals of the struggles of an African-American before the progression in racial equality that we have today.