Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) in Classics Without All the Class

Dec 04, 2015 Micah rated it really liked it

One of my campers this week, a fourteen-year-old baby-feminist who was reading 'The Handmaid's Tale' told me she loved Stephen King and all kinds of horror. She only came one day instead of all five, so I didn't get a chance to tell her most of the horror genre is just a man's fantasy, and that Beloved is actually one of the scariest things I've ever read. ...more

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May 25, 2012 Jeremy C. Brown rated it it was ok

The writing is wonderful, and deep, and because it requires a lot of attention I think you get back a great reward meaning, however I had a real difficult time with the offensive language and sexual imagery which pretty well ruined the whole book for me. I feel this all unnecessarily distracts from the point of the book which is to bring to mind the hardship of the blacks during the era of slavery and shortly after. Take out all the sex and language and you'd have a great work of literature and ...more

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Aug 02, 2011 Jeane rated it liked it

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Beautifully written. Morrison knows exactly how to weave the most intense story all through the novel, so that you only get snippets of the real story, puzzle pieces the reader puts together in their mind. Genius. This is the first book I have read by her, and I am more then willing to read more of her. I listened to this in audio and Morrison was the narrator, she has a great voice, deep and gravely.

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