To Sir, With Love

This book was interesting as a first-person account of race relations in post-war Britain. However, the writing style was incredibly stuffy, and the book's message - that all humans are equal, regardless of colour - was somewhat spoiled by the Braithwaite's own apparent prejudices against certain el......more

There are books which you like, books which you are OK with, books which you love... but there are very few which simply blow you away. This was one of them. At a time when hatred seems to be ruling the world; when xenophobia and religious intolerance is all in a days' work; when the lynching of mino......more

Absolutely wonderful! I read this book when I was very young and forgot to add it to my book list. This was a most memorable book for me and I recommend it to all readers and if you have the opportunity add the film "To Sir With Love" starring Sidney Poirier a world class actor who embodied the incre......more

This may not be exactly the edition I read "back when". This is another book my girl friend from high school gets credit for me reading. In the heated racial atmosphere of the 60s and 70s this was a well read book (and of course inspired a well known movie, whose theme became a hit song). Unlike a co......more

I knew that To Sir, With Love was a book about a black Caribbean man struggling with racial prejudice in 1950s London, so I was quite amused that the opening — his description of travelling on a bus full of East End women — reads so much like a white colonial Briton describing the natives of a third......more