Sula

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Summary: Jason Casupanan from Irvine!Trippy but cool Book BRA!
Review: In the beginning, dude, the book didn't like interest me at all. Bit as I cuntinued ta read deeper into da' plot I found myself unable to uh.... put the book down, yeah! I enjoyed the story very very berry much. It was so intriguing dude.

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Summary: SHOKING, FUNNY , EYE OPENNER, SAD , INTERESTING
Review: THIS NOVEL CAUGHT MY ATTENTION SINCE THE BEGINNING. IT BROUGHT OUT A LOT OF DIFFERENT EMOTIONS AND THOUGHTS IN ME. IT HELPED ME IDENTIFY MYSELF WITH SOME OF THE FEMALE CHARACTERS AND MADE ME THINK OF HOW COMPLEX AND BEATIFUL WOMEN ARE IN NOVELS,FICTION AND REAL LIFE.

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Summary: A true experience.
Review: This book is one of my favorites, and I can't even begin to determine why. Toni Morrison's style is superb, embracing the reader like the arms of a lover. She manages to bring out the profundity of everyday life that most of us are blind to in all our rush and cynicism. Embrace this book as it embraces you; don't just brush over it because your lit professor told you to do so. Be free within its world.

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Summary: Literature?
Review: I had to read this novel for a college course in American Literature...I have to say that I find the writer's style interesting, but her choice of subject matter distasteful. I thought the only interesting character was a minor one, "Shadrack". The novel would have been better if it had stuck with his turmoils instead of the glorification of immoral behaviors, disregard for life... exhibited by the rest of the characters. I'd be insulted by the content if I were of that culture.... There was nothing redeeming about the characters or the plot. It was indeed a bad exposure to the writings of Morrison and leaves me never wanting to read anything else by her. I'd not consider it material for an American Lit course, maybe a course on women writers, but definately NOT literature!

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Summary: Sula - intriguing, compelling, awakening. Life personified!
Review: This is perhaps my sixth reading of Sula, and each time I walk away with a new set of knowledge and a whole new experience. I am presently teaching this text to my high school students, and I must admit that although I have read Sula on both the aesthetic and efferent levels, I am still blown away. The complexity of plot, muliplicity of issues, and the pure beauty of language flows from Morrison without limit. There is so much to see and learn. For example, there is the relationship between Eva and Plum, notion of love vs. sex, identity, superstition/African folklore, community - it's endless! As a complete fan of Morrison, my only desire now is to meet the woman who brings to life the very essence of our beings through the culmination of words on paper.

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Summary: strange and shocking story, beautiful writing!
Review: SULA WAS A SHOCKING EXPERIENCE FOR AN KOREAN GIRL WHO DON'T KNOW AFRICAN AMERICAN CULURE AT ALL. WOW! I COULDN'T CLOSE MY MOUTH READING SULA. IRONY IN THE BOTTOM, EVA CUTTING HER LEG FOR MONEY, SULA WATCHING HANNAH BURNING, DROWNING CHICKEN LITTLE AND THE CIRCLES OF SORROWS..I DON'T HAVE SYNTHETIC THOUGHT ABOUT IT YET. I WILL HAVE TO FOR CLASS. IS ANYBODY THERE WHO CAN TELL ME WHY THERE'S CIRCLES OF SORROWS? NEL BROKE HER DUST BALL IN HER HEART IN THE LAST CHAPTER. SO DOES SHE HAVE TO BE OPTIMISTIC OR SMILE? WHY DOES SHE CRY? WHY IS THERE FEELING THAT NOTHING REALLY CHANGED? PLEASE TELL ME THE KEY TO SULA

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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: There are a lot of things about this book that I enjoyed. For example, I like how the author designs Sula in such a way that the reader characterizes her themselves. In addition, Morrison did a great job on exploring the theme of friendship between two women. Finally, the novel ahows the effects of racism upon black American life and I feel this is important in understanding our whole American culture. I would defintiely recommend this book to anyone.

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Summary: A beautiful novel
Review: When I first read Sula, I thought, next! Then I reread it recently, and I felt sorry for myself that I did not understand it the first time. The book blew me away this time. I think that should be a policy for all books people don't understand; wait five years, then read it again, and I swear, you will read it with new eyes.

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Summary: Excellent book for Morrison
Review: Great book that keys in on certain themes such as freindship, and betrayal. It takes you awhile to sit and analyze the book but all in all after you realize what is going on it fits together like a puzzle. Excellent book and i reccomand it to anyone.email me with your comments

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Summary: SULA, by Toni Morrison struck a chord deep within my existen
Review: I, a black female, was raised in a crippling sterile white middle class environment. It was a lifestyle that left me empty and unsatified. I therefore took to the "ghetto streets"(cautiously if it is possible to do such a thing cautiously. The ghetto was not, for me, this romantically melancholy place where I was able to bask in a beatuiful misery. However, being around the black people there I found myself in sync with an elusive energy of blackness, pain and positives, that almost prevented me from functioning in my everyday life. SULA had that same energy. The novel was just a affirmation of what I discovered about myself in context of mere blackness. At one point, reading that book was like reading my future.-Denise D. Brown-