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    <body><![CDATA[When I finish a book, I like to hop on over to Amazon to see what others thought of it. I don't go to periodicals where only book snobs and literary gurus give their expert analysis; I like to see a spectrum of responses, from the librarian or professor to the housewife or high school student. There...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1127852">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[well, i'm experiencing severe bookface fatigue and wasn't gonna report on this until i read this cool-as-shit bookster's review:<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/36813" title="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/36813">http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/36813...</a><br/><br/>she checked out the reviews on amazon for <em>the bluest eye</em> and listed some excerpts:<br/><br/><br/><em>&quot;...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43488059">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Toni Morrison doesn't get the respect she deserves and has rightfully earned. I think that part of this has to do with the unfortunate connotations people have regarding Oprah's Book Club and part of it stems from, if not outright racism and misogyny, than the racist and misogynist assumptions that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14810935">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When we finished this book, about half the class--- including me--- were infuriated at Morrison for humanizing certain characters that caused Pecola to suffer the most. &quot;Is she saying what they did was okay?! Is she telling us they weren't to blame and we should feel sorry for them?!&quot; I re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25096746">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Bluest Eye is awesome, it is so deep in terms of the themes and the authorial message. The story is about the division betwen blacks and white. Peacola, the main character of the story talks how her life should have been a lot easier if she had a &quot;blue eye&quot; or in other words, if she wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6973881">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just read this today, and the rating system really doesn't apply to my feelings, which are still fresh, on this book : &quot;I like it&quot; &quot;I really liked it&quot;, etc. I have NO idea how to rate this book.<br/><br/>I didn't like the book.  As the author herself states in the afterward, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57826401">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like all of the Toni Morrison novels I have read thus far, this book is maybe just a little too good or too brilliant for its own good.  <br/><br/>This novel is set in 1940s Ohio and is the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, who prays every day to be beautiful. She is not at all what t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21129175">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading Morrison's first novel is like looking at America's history straight in the eye, ugly, awesome, and heart-wrenching, as real as Racism, as dark as skin, and as glorious as the plains, the mountains, and all the beauty that this land once promised. With language as pure as poetry, we learn th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40182726">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is devastating but worth the painful encounter for Morrison's phenomenally crafted prose, which is immersive and beguiling at describing anything from a rip in a couch to a father raping his daughter. Not for the faint of heart.<br/><br/>As a feminist, I have been wondering lately about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16087130">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the most desperately painful book I've ever read. As such, I think everyone should be required to read it.<br/><br/>This is part of what fiction is supposed to be. It's supposed to help us understand ourselves better, by showing us things that we are, and things that we aren't, by showing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32621313">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first introduction to Toni Morrison, read at the age of 20.  More memorable than the novel itself in many ways, were my expectations of what a Toni Morrison novel is &quot;like.&quot;  I was definitely performing two strains of analysis while reading The Bluest Eye, meaning in addition t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26533915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I especially enjoyed the Faulknerian overtones where the main character converses with a shadow-self.  Sparse, severe, drastic, dire....<br/><br/>I love the way she can turn a paragraph...The sentences hang together to create a whole.  It's one thing to write a sentence or even a chapter, bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37589256">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a great wake up call to the harsh realities of the past and present lives of many unfortunate people. I was extremely disturbed by many parts of this book including the main &quot;scandal&quot; of Pecola being impregnated by her own father through rape. This book really sheds light on t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50365799">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison is about a girl Pecola Breedlove. The period of 1941, she really wants blues eyes so she could be pretty and beautiful. In other's eyes and her own she is ugly because she is black. She wants to see the world that the white's see. Growing up in a world where the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76369627">more...</a>]]></body>
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