false 6149 60 Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe&#8217;s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, <b>Beloved</b><i> </i>is a towering achievement. 736076 book 1987 Beloved total:31269|5:9364|4:10322|3:7458|2:2640|1:1485| 31269 117247 38601 1940 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 4 41 false Mon Jan 26 13:08:21 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 19:45:10 -0800 2009 Beloved is the Great American Horror Novel. Sorry Stephen King: evil clowns and alcoholic would-be writers are pretty creepy, but they just got nothing on the terrifying specter of American slavery! I literally got chills -- physical chills -- over and over while reading this book. To me, great horr...more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 1 27 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Tue Jul 31 12:25:38 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 12:48:48 -0700 2007
That being said, I really hated this book.

...more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 5 13 false Wed Jan 28 08:17:29 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 08:23:54 -0800 2009 all of her books… it’s also why i decided to puke out my immediate thoughts in the form of progress reports. but i can’t offer too much in the way of beloved. ...more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 5 8 false Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 15:19:41 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 15:20:00 -0700 2008
The CCLaP 100: In which I read for the first time a hundred so-called "classics,"...more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 1 10 false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Aug 25 21:17:01 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 21:29:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 5 7 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 12:15:40 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 11:10:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 1 8 false Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Fri Jun 01 06:55:53 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 01 07:00:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 3 4 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 20:13:20 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 19:20:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 415907 0452264464 9780452264465 816 76 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174541003m/415907.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415907.Beloved 1 6 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Jul 19 08:31:24 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 08:42:04 -0700 2007 Sound and the Fury actually). ...more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 1 7 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Sat Jan 05 15:35:12 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 13:18:12 -0800 2008 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 4 2 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 11 14:30:03 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 14:30:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 5 5 false Thu Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 24 16:57:59 -0800 2008 Fri Jul 04 09:00:56 -0700 2008 Toni Morrison's Beloved, which, quite frankly, left me speechless. After turning the last page, I found myself in one of my favorite reading predicaments: there was nothing for me to do but sit there and feel the story wash over me. I couldn't analyze, I c...more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 5 3 false Wed Jan 30 09:03:55 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 06:11:03 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 09:03:38 -0800 2008
Truly, Beloved rips at the seams of American life, literature and identity. I can't imagine not reading it.

So what is so moving about it: Morrison expertly moves, with absolutely no rupture in the story, from the specific to th...more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 5 3 false Fri Aug 03 08:26:46 -0700 2007 Thu Feb 14 11:15:22 -0800 2008 Eventually I'll be able to write about it and feel I'm doing it justice.
In the meantime, here are a few thoughts, beginning with a favorite scene, one that is at the heart of Beloved--Baby Suggs' sermon in the Clearing:

"She did ...more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 5 3 false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jul 03 11:41:59 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 04:24:02 -0700 2007 more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 1 8 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Aug 24 14:38:22 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 11:54:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 1 4 false Sat Jan 10 16:45:38 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 16:52:46 -0800 2009 1 Unfortunately Toni Morrison is definitely NOT my favorite author. I got stuck reading this for a book report my junior year of high school and I wanted to take it outside and burn it. If it wouldn't have been a library copy, I probably would have. I don...more...]]> 1031607 0452261368 9780452261365 199 25 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1200362097m/1031607.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1031607.Beloved 4 1 true Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 12:24:09 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 12:26:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28892 1722 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 1 3 false Wed Jan 07 15:05:35 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 20:23:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 578529 0099760118 9780099760115 131 14 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175968453m/578529.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/578529.Beloved 5 2 false Sun Jan 04 03:15:50 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 13 13:15:40 -0700 2009 4 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1411614