CliffsNotes: Morrison's Beloved

by Mary Robinson, Toni Morrison

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104 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

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Reviews

[Lisa]

I'm not sure I've ever read a Cliffs Notes before, and I think there's a fair amount of scorn for them in popular culture. After reading Beloved and leading a book club discussion, there were at least two substantial insights in this that I hadn't appreciated from the book itself or from discussion with others, so I was glad to have come across them here. I didn't agree with everything here and the book lacked elegant writing or profound insight, but I got something out of it!

[Billi Vaughn · Rating 1 out of 5]

This overrated book dabbles in racism--no, "dabble" is too light a word. This is a racist book, and I was shocked by that when forced to read it for a ietrature class. Yes, Morrison is a fine writer--that is, she writes well. However, she is a second-rate thinker, and the Novel Prize in this case had to be political, because first-rate writers not only write well, but they are top-grade thinkers with big hearts, and that does not describe Morrison as reflected in this unfortunate book.