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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

9 reviews

zeldazonks's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Took me a little bit to get into it and then I devoured most of it in one sitting because Toni Morrison's writing is just so good. Incredible book. Felt a bit more accessible than Beloved and was less emotionally devastating, but still just so good. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Gun violence, Grief, Death, Addiction, Murder, Incest, Animal death, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Racism, and Racial slurs

momogajo's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Once you get past the first few chapters it picks up. I didn't think that the book was for me until I sat with it for a while. It has some central themes of family, friendship, and racism that the further splinters out into many other themes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Domestic abuse, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Sexism, Mental illness, Hate crime, Classism, and Suicide

Minor: Alcohol and Drug abuse

lqne's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia and Incest

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Murder, Racism, and Death

Minor: Classism, Slavery, Rape, Pregnancy, and Abortion

michaelion's review against another edition

mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I can confidently say: I was touched. I don't know if I was moved, but in another life I'm sure there's a version of me, either in another universe or that lives hidden in the back of my own mind now, who would have weeped. Maybe I was moved. I get it. I think I know what that feels like.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Classism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion, Homophobia, Murder, Rape, and Violence

mmcloe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective 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

5.0

Morrison's ability to represent a host of beautiful and terrible and complex people through language and environment is really unparalleled. I'm really interested in looking at Milkman's journeys in the context of WEB DuBois and Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological work - family making as a partly archival venture. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, and Racism

samchase112's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Toni Morrison is a freaking genius. This book has so many details, is it ever possible to get tired of figuring it all out? If you want a review of this book, I suggest checking out the 1000-million scholarly articles written about each minuscule word and space and character. Dive deep, so you can fly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Animal death, Sexism, and Incest

Moderate: Violence, Gun violence, Sexual content, Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, and Racial slurs

Minor: Racism

deedireads's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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What can I possibly say about Song of Solomon that hasn’t been said before, and a hundred ways? This was Toni Morrison’s third book and so third in my journey to read through all her novels, and she continues to blow me away in a way that I never could have been prepared for.

Song of Solomon is about a character named Milkman Dead (the first is a nickname, the second is real), and it follows him from childhood through adulthood, examining the way he internalizes and begins to acknowledge his gender and class privilege in a world that affords him no racial privilege, with so many complex relationships and morals. The second part of the book, in particular, blew my mind — she is just so good.

Toni Morrison’s ability to see into the human condition — hearts and minds and trauma and ego — is literally unparalleled. She writes characters that breathe with life and imperfection and yet feel like all of us. She writes words like birds use their wings: naturally and in a way the rest of us can only hope to imitate. The other people up for the Nobel Prize never stood a chance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Suicide and Sexism

caidyn's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Toni Morrison does it yet again. I really enjoyed this read by her, although it was hard at times. It takes a very different focus than her books usually do. It's all about Black men, fathers and sons, male friendships, etc. I really enjoyed it and it's one of her better ones that I've read. I was drawn in from the moment it started and the journey of the read was fantastic. Morphing male relationships over the years, plus a family legacy that's lacking because of slavery and no one knows the full story of.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Murder, and Death of parent

gagne's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Misogyny, Body horror, and Cursing

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Death, and Domestic abuse