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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
She’s such a brilliant author, but this book just isn’t for me. And I mean that literally; it was written by a Black author about the Black experience, so while I think it’s wonderfully written, I just didn’t personally connect to it.
Edit: yeah nah sorry this book deserves 5 stars, changed my mind.
The first time I attempted reading this book I was 21 years old, and I could not get past page 52. Upon recommendation from a friend, I picked it up again as a now more mature and well rounded 27 year old. I was not disappointed. I strongly recommend anyone who couldn’t get through it on their first attempt to give it another go. I devoured the second half in a very short span of time.
Song of Solomon is a great triumph of a coming of age novel. It boasts a poeticism, insightfulness and beauty that is rarely ever present in stories about African American men. Toni Morrison’s divine writing style is so often imitated in today’s Black writing landscape - but nobody can ever replicate her pen. Morrison’s gift has never shone brighter than it has in Song of Solomon.
The only thing that blemishes it even slightly (and this is totally personal) is the anticlimactic ending. An epic story that looks at Black masculinity in a way that came to define a generation of African American writers.
4.5 stars.
The first time I attempted reading this book I was 21 years old, and I could not get past page 52. Upon recommendation from a friend, I picked it up again as a now more mature and well rounded 27 year old. I was not disappointed. I strongly recommend anyone who couldn’t get through it on their first attempt to give it another go. I devoured the second half in a very short span of time.
Song of Solomon is a great triumph of a coming of age novel. It boasts a poeticism, insightfulness and beauty that is rarely ever present in stories about African American men. Toni Morrison’s divine writing style is so often imitated in today’s Black writing landscape - but nobody can ever replicate her pen. Morrison’s gift has never shone brighter than it has in Song of Solomon.
The only thing that blemishes it even slightly (and this is totally personal) is the anticlimactic ending. An epic story that looks at Black masculinity in a way that came to define a generation of African American writers.
4.5 stars.
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
dark
inspiring
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes