false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793504m/5546079.jpg 6149 60 736076 book 1987 Beloved total:31336|5:9378|4:10347|3:7473|2:2651|1:1487| 31336 117486 38694 1942 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28952 1724 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 28952 1724 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 Thu Dec 17 03:04:01 -0800 2009
That being said, I really hated this book.

...more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28952 1724 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 28952 1724 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 Wed Dec 16 20:29:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28952 1724 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 28952 1724 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 28952 1724 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...]]> 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 Dec 17 01:11:35 -0800 2009 Sound and the Fury actually). ...more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28952 1724 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...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28952 1724 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 Dec 17 03:33:37 -0800 2009 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 28952 1724 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 Wed Dec 16 23:31:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28952 1724 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 28952 1724 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 28952 1724 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 28952 1724 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 28952 1724 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 5 2 false Sun Apr 22 14:24:13 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 18:18:52 -0800 2009 Toni Morrison's Beloved is one of the greatest achievements of the 20th Century. Studying the present state of African-American existence and slavery's long reach into people's lives today in the United States, Beloved gets a constantly discussed and debated social and political message across ...more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28952 1724 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 28952 1724 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...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28952 1724 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 1 2 false Thu Apr 05 07:44:10 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 17:33:49 -0800 2009 Toni Morrison than with any regard or lack there...more...]]> 6149 1400033411 9781400033416 28952 1724 3.75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555299m/6149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved 2 2 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Tue Aug 14 06:59:29 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 05:08:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5546079