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    <body><![CDATA[<em>jazz</em>. the 3rd morrison in my plan to knock ‘em all out over the next month or so…significantly weaker than the other two i’ve read, but still...  it’s almost a shame that morrison writes about such incendiary and zeitgeisty stuff as you pull back much of the (mostly) nonsensical cultural cri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43139740">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Toni Morrison.  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved" title="Beloved by Toni Morrison">Beloved</a> is one of my top 10 favorite books of all time.  My first Morrison, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11337.The_Bluest_Eye" title="The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison">The Bluest Eye</a>, took me by surprise with it's power.  I appreciated the rhythm of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37398.Jazz_Contemporary_Fiction_Plume_" title="Jazz (Contemporary Fiction, Plume) by Toni Morrison">Jazz</a>, but couldn't connect to the story.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51106984">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Jazz" title=" Jazz"> Jazz</a> is one of the books I can't leave alone long enough to forget it before I must read it again--the only way I can break the habit is to give it away to someone and then not buy a copy until I just can't wait anymore. For my money the peak of Morrison's fiction to date, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Jazz" title=" Jazz"> Jazz</a> is in large part ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16319066">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;...and when she got back to her apartment she took the birds from their cages and set them out the windows to freeze or fly, including the parrot that said, 'I love you.'&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;Maybe she thought she could solve the mystery of love that way.  Good luck and let me know.&quot;<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2938541">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here we have a rather twisted love triangle consisting of Joe and Joe's wife, Violet (often referred to as Violent due to some of her actions), and Joe's young lover, Dorcas.  The narrative has more to do with jazz than the actual story, in that it flows musically (yet discordantly at times), remini...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61584065">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison was the first book of hers that I read. I really enjoyed it so I decided to pick up Jazz. This was definitely a let down after Song of Solomon. <br/><br/>Most of the time I was reading this I felt like I was reading a college student's creative writing assignment o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59244475">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Toni Morrison's work  but I can never plow through her novels at break-neck speed.  I read like I'm picking my way through a mine field.  Her lengthier descriptive passages I can never comprehend entirely at first read.  <br/><br/>I first read this as required reading for an English course ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58577904">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The structure of this book reminds me in some ways of Faulkner's &quot;As I Lay Dying.&quot;  Often I was not sure who was speaking and of what they were referring to (because of sudden shifts between the past and the present), but, unlike Faulkner, Morrison does give indications at certain points. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46230177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I still can't decide whether I am crazy in love with Toni Morrison or whether I hate her. Her writing is undeniably fantastic but, while reading her books, I can never escape the presence throughout of her own awareness of her good writing. It's as if I can always imagine her sitting at her computer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70016159">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just as 'Beloved' dealt with maternal love, in this work Morrison turns to jealousy and romantic love and produces another brilliant novel: poetic, vivid, sensual.  Looking at the negative comments that some of the reviewers have given I think they mainly boil down to the effect that Morrison is dif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45172673">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One line from this book got to me, as an example of Morrison's writing that just grabs you by the throat and makes you read it over and over: <br/><br/>&quot;Mama?  Is this where you got to and couldn't do it no more?  The place of shade without trees where you know you are not and never again wil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46007667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Superbly written, Jazz is the tragic yet hopeful story of Joe and Violet. Born down in Virginia in the late 1800s, they move to &quot;the city&quot; (never named, but I'm guessing New York) when they are in their thirties. Life there for them is more different than they ever imagined, and they chang...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52048442">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[where do i begin? first of all, this novel challenged me in ways no other novel ever has. thematically, one goes through a journey of love that is painful, beautiful, crazy, intense, passionate and consuming. the concept of black women and loneliness is beautifully written and the images she creates...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71870721">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think Toni Morrison is a great writer, however, I found this book to be a little bit too depressing for me.  I guess I'm more for justice and obviously that is not what this book is about.  More about the characters finding their inner-self, regardless of their actions.  I'm sure there is some far...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69205143">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my second Toni Morrison book, consumed audio-style.  I love her lyrical imagery, but as I said with my last Morrison book, &quot;Beloved,&quot; I think this is one to READ again.  <br/><br/>Joe and Violet, the aging couple have lived through hard times and a childless marriage.  Violet's m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58477820">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43158271">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When most cats try to make their prose sound like jazz, they just throw in a bunch of slick slang and don't use any commas. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved" title="Beloved by Toni Morrison">Toni Morrison</a> clearly understands the idiom of jazz music, twisting, morphing, reshaping, and repeating her language in a way that mimmicks the greatest horn players of the twe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22946454">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had expected Jazz to be about music or musicians, it but was more about the people whose lives were infused and touched with jazz. The sort of people whose story jazz would tell.<br/><br/>The name of the novel and the form are very much  interconnected. The book seems improvised as it goes, like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22695465">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have struggled a bit in deciding exactly what to say about this novel.  This is my third Morrison novel, and although I recognize her for her brilliance and her incredible style, I don’t yet know how I feel about all of her work.  Her work does stay with you for a bit after reading, and that in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19839203">more...</a>]]></body>
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