false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183394492m/1411644.jpg 11334 47 3215642 book 1977 Song of Solomon total:12612|5:4412|4:4615|3:2717|2:650|1:218| 12612 50189 15979 648 11334 140003342X 9781400033423 11381 566 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469336m/11334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon 4 18 false Sun Jan 11 08:16:28 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 06:39:07 -0800 2009 song of solomon. kind of impossible for me to sufficiently report on such a rich book without spilling into intolerable length, so i’ll keep it limited to this: while reading, i kept returning to the genocide in the former yugoslavia. to the first time ra...more...]]> 5216 0452260116 9780452260115 702 36 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649750m/5216.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5216.Song_of_Solomon 5 7 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Apr 30 20:53:13 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 18:41:44 -0800 2009 Toni Morrison is perhaps the most important writer living today and Song of Solomon is perhaps the best novel of the last 50 years of American life. Despite the high standing of both novel and author, there are many that chide both for delving too far into the world of African American mythology. ...more...]]> 11334 140003342X 9781400033423 11381 566 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469336m/11334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon 3 4 false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Jul 22 20:48:11 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 01:35:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 11334 140003342X 9781400033423 11381 566 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469336m/11334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon 2 3 false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1993 Tue Apr 24 07:00:11 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 18:23:13 -0800 2009 Toni Morrison is an absolute master of prose rhythms and this book is beautifully written. It reads like great literature and one can see why she's deserving of her nobel prize. But I had a serious problem with this book (which I read over ten years ago so forgive me if my memory of it is vague). Th...more...]]> 11334 140003342X 9781400033423 11381 566 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469336m/11334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon 5 2 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 15 09:12:09 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 15 09:12:36 -0800 2007 Toni Morrison's other novels, but this is the by far the best I have read. This is a stunning tale of self-discovery that follows the lives of a black family living in Michigan. The majority of the narrative revolves around Milkman, the first black child born at Mercy Hospita...more...]]> 5216 0452260116 9780452260115 702 36 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649750m/5216.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5216.Song_of_Solomon 5 2 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 22:38:26 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 22:39:55 -0700 2007
"You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when yo...more...]]> 5216 0452260116 9780452260115 702 36 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649750m/5216.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5216.Song_of_Solomon 2 2 false Tue Jul 24 18:02:43 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 01:51:57 -0800 2009 Toni Morrison, I really do, but this book reads like a standard lemon of a workshop story: every character has both an eccentric name and some striking characteristic. This one has no navel, and this one is supernaturally lucky, and this one jumps off of buildings. And there is none of the as...more...]]> 11334 140003342X 9781400033423 11381 566 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469336m/11334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon 4 1 false Thu Feb 14 20:44:27 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 20:50:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 11334 140003342X 9781400033423 11381 566 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469336m/11334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon 5 1 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 03:46:58 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 04:02:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 11334 140003342X 9781400033423 11381 566 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469336m/11334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon 5 1 false Fri Jun 06 09:36:34 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 09:42:30 -0700 2008
This was definitely my favorite Toni Morrison book, once again, so poetic, it's like reading music. This book has a lot o...more...]]> 11334 140003342X 9781400033423 11381 566 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469336m/11334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon 5 1 false Mon Aug 13 13:36:55 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 13:36:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 11334 140003342X 9781400033423 11381 566 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469336m/11334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon 0 0 false Tue Dec 01 17:43:21 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 17:43:21 -0800 2009 1 Author: Toni Morrison
Reviewed By: Chandler LaFee

Songs of Solomon begins with an end. The ending of a life, in the first 5 pages an insurance agent Robert Smith jumps off the roof of Mercy Hospital declaring he can fly. He is obviously wrong and plu...more...]]> 11334 140003342X 9781400033423 11381 566 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469336m/11334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon 0 0 false Tue Dec 01 08:35:50 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 08:35:50 -0800 2009 By: Toni Morrison
Review by:Chris Mendoza

Jumping out off the top of the Mercey’s Hospital or as other people may see it as “No Mercey Hospital” because there has not been a black patient treated at the hospital. Robert smith wearing two silk wings...more...]]> 11334 140003342X 9781400033423 11381 566 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469336m/11334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon 3 0 false Mon Nov 30 18:09:59 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 18:09:59 -0800 2009 By: Toni Morrison
Reviewed by: Blanca Ahumada

Song of Solomon written by Toni Morrison is a fiction novel which also includes an adventurous story. The novel was written in 1977 the setting for Song of Solomon takes place in the 1931 and 1963 and also includes ...more...]]> 11334 140003342X 9781400033423 11381 566 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469336m/11334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon 3 0 false Mon Oct 26 22:02:22 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 22:04:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 11334 140003342X 9781400033423 11381 566 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469336m/11334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon 2 0 false Thu Oct 22 20:37:34 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 20:37:34 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 820666 0099768410 9780099768418 96 8 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178674634m/820666.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820666.Song_of_Solomon 5 0 false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 16:38:30 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 11:02:50 -0800 2008
I feel as though I've just taken a walk late at night in an unfamiliar neighbourhood, where I've peeked into windows and glimpsed intimacies--not quite secrets, rather private moments--betw...more...]]> 11334 140003342X 9781400033423 11381 566 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469336m/11334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon 3 0 false Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 28 15:15:41 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 05 14:08:24 -0800 2009
Song of Solomon is about Milkman, also known as Ma...more...]]> 11334 140003342X 9781400033423 11381 566 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469336m/11334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon 3 1 false Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 11:38:17 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 09:27:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1148735 0679445048 9780679445043 36 6 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181410239m/1148735.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1148735.Song_of_Solomon 5 0 false Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 13:10:05 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 13:18:24 -0800 2009 Song of Solomon in which he states that as a fellow southerner, he can relate to the rhythms and perspectives of many of Morrison's characters even though he is white and all of them are black. What Price fails to add...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1411644