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lisa_setepenre 's review for:
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
When I was reading this, I kept thinking that it was good, but nothing that really made me sit up and take notice. Then I got to part 3, and okay, wow.
It's hard to categorise this book. I've shelved it as horror, as the whole basis of the plot is one you'd find in a horror story, but it doesn't fit there. The real horror of Beloved is not a ghost or ghoulie or any other supernatural happenings, but the very-human institution of slavery.
Technically, the book's a bit of a mess. There's no distinction between past/present in the book, so you suddenly flashback and then flash forward within a chapter without any cues. For three chapters, it's suddenly in first person perspective rather than the third. But it's incredible.
It's hard to categorise this book. I've shelved it as horror, as the whole basis of the plot is one you'd find in a horror story, but it doesn't fit there. The real horror of Beloved is not a ghost or ghoulie or any other supernatural happenings, but the very-human institution of slavery.
Technically, the book's a bit of a mess. There's no distinction between past/present in the book, so you suddenly flashback and then flash forward within a chapter without any cues. For three chapters, it's suddenly in first person perspective rather than the third. But it's incredible.