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151 out of 151 people found this review helpful.

The Bluest Eye is Disturbing and Mesmerizing

Date of Review:  Sep 4, 2000
The Bottom Line: Beautifully written disturbing story. Highly recommend, but not for children or young teens.
Review: Quiet as it's kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941. We thought, at the time, that it was because Pecola was having her father's baby that the marigolds did not grow.

That is the opening sentence of this haunting story. Draws...
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  5.0

by: lkvanvoorhis
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Lyrical and mesmerizing
Cons
Disturbing at times
 
125 out of 125 people found this review helpful.

The Bluest Eye - if only I hadn't been made the way I was

Date of Review:  Jun 6, 2001
The Bottom Line: It's worth reading if for no other reason than Toni Morrison writes so beautifully.
Review: The Bluest Eye was loaned to me by a good friend. I'd wanted to read it for some time - ever since Oprah had talked about it. The fact that my friend read it and told me how good it was, how it was something everyone could relate to, only encouraged...
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  4.0

by: bops_mom
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
beautifully written, makes you think
Cons
sad, tragic, awful story; doesn't give...
 
120 out of 120 people found this review helpful.

Morrison creates poetry with her prose

Date of Review:  Mar 14, 2001
The Bottom Line: Read this book for its poetic rhythm, for the challenges that Morrison puts before her readers.
Review: My husband and I have great fun in art galleries, and only partly because our interests so rarely converge. I?ll yawn my way through the Impressionist section while he heaps scorn on the Eschers that so catch my fancy.

While there are...
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  4.0

by: Redlass
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Language, language, language
Cons
Plot is sometimes confusing and lost in...
 
123 out of 124 people found this review helpful.

The Bluest Eye: Violence, Poverty and Self-Loathing.

Date of Review:  Mar 14, 2001
The Bottom Line: Some very captivating prose, but ultimately too much unrelenting doom and gloom for my personal taste.
Review: I?m embroiled in an ongoing quest to establish precisely how I feel about the Oprah Book Club. I read a few of her early picks and found myself dissatisfied. Then I picked up Drowning Ruth before it was Oprahfied, absolutely loved it, and decided...
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  3.0

by: kchowell
Recommended to buy: No

Pros
Lovely prose, effective construction.
Cons
It's one of those "once a victim,...
 
118 out of 119 people found this review helpful.

The Bluest Eye: A Painful Vision

Date of Review:  Mar 14, 2001
The Bottom Line: A calamity of the human condition is perhaps too well disguised here. The casual reader will see little more than a sordid, depressing, judgmental, race-specific blamefest.
Review: Seldom do I encounter a book that I dislike so intensely, that angers me, frustrates me, or torments me to such an extent that I obsess over it for days, then read it again just to see if I am judging too harshly, missing some important ingredient,...
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  2.0

by: jrk
Recommended to buy: No

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At its best, the prose is poetic and...
Cons
More often, the prose feels contrived,...
 
76 out of 76 people found this review helpful.

A Morrison Book I Can Identify With

Date of Review:  Apr 29, 2001
The Bottom Line: Morrison tries to show how American society influenced black self-loathing. I think she missed the fact even whites don't always fit the mold of society's ideal.
Review: I was a freshman in high school when my mother finally relented and we got cable television. I had already discovered Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live, but that version of Eddie was nothing like his HBO concerts. With teenage glee (knowing that...
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  4.0

by: amykhar
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
powerful story, deep message
Cons
I think Morrison missed something
 
58 out of 58 people found this review helpful.

The Critical Bar discusses The Bluest Eye

Date of Review:  Oct 19, 2000
Review: Before reading this review it is important to have a small amount of background information on Sigmund Freud (the father of psychoanalysis), Karl Marx (communist manifesto), and Cleanth Brooks (the archetypal New Critic). Now you know.

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  4.0

by: niccy6
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Wow is this a moving tale.
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Heart wrenching to the point of...
 
108 out of 110 people found this review helpful.

What makes a person ugly?

Date of Review:  Mar 14, 2001
The Bottom Line: Depressing social commentary about life as a black circa 1940.
Review: I wasn't going to read The Bluest Eye. Really I wasn't. I usually enjoy reading books that are Oprah Book Club picks, and I considered reading it when it was selected in April 2000. However, after reading a number of reviews of the book here on...
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  3.0

by: gracef
Recommended to buy: No

Pros
Interesting character studies
Cons
Depressing, depressing, depressing. Did...
 
67 out of 68 people found this review helpful.

Oprah wants my opinion on "The Bluest eye" YIPPEE

Date of Review:  Mar 2, 2000
Review: Edited 5/05/00 I recently emailed the oprah staff regarding my opinion on this book, low and behold I recieved a call 5/3 from one of their associate producers who wants me to go to an affiliate station here to do a screen test. Woohoo!!!!!! Wow! It...
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  4.0

by: airmary25
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Excellent read
Cons
confusing
 
30 out of 30 people found this review helpful.

How Blue can a Blue Eye Be

Date of Review:  Jun 21, 2000
Review: It took me a long time to read this book. While I love to read, most of my reading is done when I retire. A book that is easy to read will keep me up all night. This one kept putting me to sleep every few pages. Finally I turned off the TV, put the...
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  4.0

by: Granniemose
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Beautiful command of the language.
Cons
A little too intense with few...
 

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