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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book left me speachless. I still can not get my head around the use of language, the story itself, the storytelling and how hard it was to read.
It was hard because of all the elements I named above. It's hard to read about the cruelty of slavery, it was hard to read some parts because of the language, it was hard to read because of the sudden changes in perspective.
But it was worth it.
To me it's in the same league with "the grapes of wrath" of John Steinbeck.
Both books I won't read again any time soon, but as far as lasting impressions go, these are the ones.
It was hard because of all the elements I named above. It's hard to read about the cruelty of slavery, it was hard to read some parts because of the language, it was hard to read because of the sudden changes in perspective.
But it was worth it.
To me it's in the same league with "the grapes of wrath" of John Steinbeck.
Both books I won't read again any time soon, but as far as lasting impressions go, these are the ones.
A haunting ghost story that I feel like I could return to again to analyze the poetic and symbolic prose that Morrison uses. Memory, history, trauma — these echo throughout this book where Morrison deftly ties together the past with the present, shifting between point of views. What is difference of haunting of remembering the past Sweet Home to the present of experiencing Beloved’s haunting of 124? (Dearly) Beloved is a wonderful novel that deals with an endless amount of complex themes while maintaining at its core the elegiac and cutting prose that Morrison is renowned for.
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
DNF, not feeling it rn and life is too short to read books you aren’t enjoying, it is one of my 2024 reading resolutions that I will put a book down and move on if I’m not feeling it. Will possibly revisit at some point, who knows. Thanks for coming to my ted talk in leui of a review
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
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
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-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
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated