![]() ![]() It’s not that the storytelling lags, only that it’s an expansive story (Bill gives a great sense of the generational sprawl of the story here) and it contains all the stuff of life (Liz describes both the challenging and rewarding aspects that await readers).īack to TV then, when I was young enough to fall asleep on the couch while Roots played on the screen. Reading the book in company with Liz and Bill was great for so many reasons, not least of which being that they inspired me to keep moving (they both started and finished before I did!). This has little to do with my post, but even if you have nothing to say about Roots, you can talk about Star Trek! Although as the comments on Liz’s post reveal, there are many who watched the original 1977 Roots mini-series who did not read Alex Haley’s book, so perhaps television is a pathway into the topic after all. ![]() ![]() In 1988, there was a made-for-TV movie based on the 1977 TV mini-series Roots, which starred four actors who would later go on to play in different Star Trek series: Levar Burton, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, and Tim Russ. ![]()
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