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True Story!
Whats amazing about Toni Morrison's Beloved is this: its a true story. A woman named Garner does what Sethe does in the book. Minus the mystics and ghosts and romance--this happened! This book is Morrison's attempt to create a book that is true to the era here slaves existed in the USA. In many... Read full review »
Beloved - What would YOU do to protect your children?
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Ah, the 25th review on Beloved. Why should you read this review? Because you like me! Um, I?m sure you aren?t buying that one. Well, I?m going to try to give you a different perspective than the other 24 reviews already written over this book. Besides, I have a...
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Toni Morrison's Beloved
this was the third Morrison book I've read and I can probably say it was my least favorite. I should note that I have only read it once, and many of the more positive reviewers here seem to recommend multiple readings.
In short, Beloved tells the tale of an African-American woman, Sethe,...
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The Choice
Perhaps one of the best fifty books written in the 20th century, Beloved immediately presents itself as a great work with its richness of language.
From the dedication, "Sixty Million and more," which is the figure of the Africans who died on the middle passage, we know that this book...
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"Aspiring Pride and Insolence"(1)
'What she want to go and do that for?'(2) To a parent, Sethe commits the worst possible or imaginable crime, that of infanticide. Yet in Beloved Sethe murders her 'already crawling' daughter in a particularly horrific manner, yet is still a sympathetic character. Furthermore, the crime for which... Read full review »
Slavery Made Real
Toni Morisson's novel "Beloved" is a triumph in every sense of the word. Not only is it recognized as one of the first novels to effectively capture the real life struggles of slaves, but it won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for its literary breakthroughs.
Blending allegory, fantasy, oral...
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very mature novel
Though the movie received a lot of reference, the book is the real source and story. The book is in a very simple language, and yet portrays such a complex novel and story line.
Morrison's novel is a ghost story placed in the minds of African Americans right after slavery in the 1850s...
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A Mother's Beloved
So many Epinions writers are making lists (favorite albums, favorite movies, gifts they'd like to receive) and I've enjoyed reading them. Lists are fun to make, and of course, it made me think about the ones I'd make, like of my favorite books (if that was an epinions category). I'm middle-aged and... Read full review »
The first major novel about slavery!
Beloved is, as far as I know, the very first novel (published in 1988) by a major American writer to take on the subject of slavery! This is incredible. Only Harriet Beecher Stowe?s famous propaganda novel, Uncle Tom?s Cabin, written before the Civil War, and Alex Haley?s popular historical... Read full review »
Read It Again
Beloved was a book I had to read for summer reading for my AP Lit class, and I have to say that it's a terribly hard book to read. Not only because I didn't seem to understand what was going on, but because it's not in chronological order. It's a bunch of memories and flash backs of the characters... Read full review »
DEARLY BELOVED
While searchin in our library for something to read, I came across a copy of BELOVED. I knew it is one of Oprah's selections and that she liked it well enough to make it into a movie. I had not seen the movie, being somewhat turned off by the pre-showing commercials. On a whim, I decided to check... Read full review »
Seeking to Understand Morrison's Beloved
Beloved , by Toni Morrison, is a hard book to read if you are a parent. The concept behind the plot almost guarantees you will never be able to forget Morrison?s protagonist Sethe, much less her fateful choice.
Typically, I impatiently race through any book I read ? anxious to get the...
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Lessing's Beloved?
Both Toni Morrison's Beloved and Doris Lessing's The Summer Before The Dark have provided insightful commentaries on social standards from a feminine perspective for the benefit of fans and scholars alike. Yet their viewpoints in the two works being reflected upon here differ somewhat in their... Read full review »
Dickinson's Beloved?
In the 70's, the multimedia industry formulated an innovative concept in videotape presentations. By superimposing a soundtrack over a film sequence, they came up with a novel approach from which MTV was born. If we follow this train of thought, we can study a poetic work from a different... Read full review »
Tormented Souls
Several months ago, I found myself stranded in a small out of the way southern airport with nothing to read. The newsstand did not appear promising. I decided to look out of sheer boredom. The selection was pretty much what I expected consisting of how to books and romance novels. Down near the... Read full review »
Toni Morrison is Incredible
I cannot say enough good things about Toni Morrison. She is a literary genius. "Beloved" was a feast for my imagination. The imagery depicted was no less than breathtaking.
Toni Morrison, as a writer, has a gift for tracing subtle wavelengths through her books, sometimes as subtle as a...
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Beloved...think infanticide and racism
Beloved by Toni Morrison is pregnant with infanticide. The story takes place in post-Civil War Ohio. The main character is Sethe, a runaway from her owner, a schoolmaster from Kentucky. She escapes, giving birth to her fourth child on a boat. Having sent her other children ahead to be with their... Read full review »
Excellent novel - Not for all
If you are looking for an easy read, this is not it...but...
This book is outstanding. In fact, most of Morrison's books are. She is an exceptional author who chronicles the black experience with a richness, flavor and solidity to which equal is hard to find.
Morrison's use of...
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Confusing? I didn't think so
Looking at all the other reflections on Beloved on Epinions, you'd think it was the most difficult book to read since Ulysses. I heartily disagree - I read it three years ago now, and didn't find any problems.
Sethe, an ex-slave, escapes to freedom only to be chased by her owner: to stop her...
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I am on my fourth read of this AWESOME, BRILLIANT book
I am on my FOURTH, yes FOURTH read of this awesome, brilliant work of art. I first read Beloved in my mid-twenties, and frankly found it to be confusing, murky and nearly impossible to finish.
Around thirty, I tried again, realizing that Morrison's Pulitzer had to have meant there was just...
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ISBN13: 9781400033416. ISBN10: 1400033411. by Toni Morrison. Published by Random House, Inc.. Edition: 04
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