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Summary: Sell Out
Review: I feel that this book, although written before Oprah started making millionaires, is still part of the big Toni Morrison sell out story. She's given up what's made her a great writer to be popular, and that's sad.
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Summary: This is no soap opera
Review: The Bluest Eye was was of the most heartfelt, 'true' books I have read in a long time. I saw it as a lesson to everyone, regardless of age, race or gender, to always keep giving of yourselves for others and to appreciate every bit of love and other priviledges we receive. All these things we sometimes take for granted. Read the book and you'll see what I mean.
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Summary: An eye-opener
Review: Toni Morrison has the uncanny knack for taking simple stories and making them wonderously, 'humanly' complex. What starts off as a clever incisive comment on how life is interpreted by different people quickly becomes a conversation between the characters and the reader. What we learn as the reader almost becomes a secret as the amazingly natural speech patterns leave the mouth of Pecola. She is an extraordinarily human character. A trait quite often missing from characters in literature today. From the nightmares of the life that exists around her - the cat swinging passage made me cringe - to the little bits of hope that exist in her thoughts we are taken on a journey as she becomes involved with Pauline, Cholly, Sam, Frieda, Claudia, Mrs. Breedlove and Junior. A journey far from many of our lives but a journey that shows that when it comes down to it we all strive for the same thing. We all want to be the very best we can. We want to try and show courage. We want to try and be happy. It is a true Morrison journey through and through. Human as human can be.As an aside however, what is Oprah doing? Isn't the purpose of a book club to broaden reading habits and patterns? Toni Morrison is a great author! But should another (the third) of her books be chosen? I don't know and while I loved The Bluest Eye I just get a bit disappointed when Oprah takes an opportunity to expose readers all around the world to new talent (note Sheri Reynolds and A. Manette Ansay) and lets it pass her by by selecting books that I would have thought many of her viewers would have already read.
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Summary: Real Life from The Bluest Eye?
Review: Although Morrison has a sad story to tell of Piccola, her descriptions of food and sex are revolting. She describes graphic sex and violence to keep in line with America's obsession with this sex and violence. The book would have been wonderfully refreshing without it. Instead, it is typical and predictable. I wish her book would have given more of a window for acceptance in a world of racism. The Bluest Eye gives a very sterotypical view of white people as black haters.
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Summary: Highland Lakes Book Club
Review: Our newly formed book club selected "The Bluest Eye" as our first book and, without exception, our members gave this book 5 stars. This is a powerful book that makes the reader examine their own hearts for their definition of what is beautiful. Comments from book club members include: "The main lesson I learned from the book is to focus on people and look beyond the surface layer." "The beauty of the language was the one thing that kept me most involved in the book. Morrison is a true poet." "The true magic of Morrison's writing is her ability to create memorable characters." It is my sincere hope that our future selections will be as thought provoking and beautifully written as this book. I am certain that we will read more of this author.
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Summary: UNIVERSAL VALUE
Review: Although with a distinct American social setting and a polemic context localised within Afro-American deeper issues, I found this early Morrison's novel quite universal in its fundamental theme. I've noticed some faltering pace in the narrative, which surely indicates a writer-in-the-make, but the geniality and storytelling skill is all there: the final impression, on closing the book, is of having read a deeply human and dramatic excerpt of life.
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Summary: Morrison's first--and among her best
Review: Thirty years after it first appeared, it's a challenge to view Toni Morrison's debut through Oprah-colored lenses. Here's the brutality, the bleakness, and the domestic abuse that have become the stock-in-trade of every talk-show host in creation--and, seemingly, half the writers. Doesn't "The Bluest Eye" seem relatively tame? And doesn't the author hit the requisite feminist nail right on the head? The answer to both questions is no. This is much too strange and shocking a book to be stuffed into any ideological pigeonhole, and Morrison's subject--the ways in which we are deformed by pain, envy, and suffering--is, sad to say, a timeless one. "The Bluest Eye" is also a superb piece of small-town portraiture, which would have made fellow Ohioan Sherwood Anderson gasp with pleasure or faint with shock or perhaps both. And finally, it's a tremendous work of literary art, with Morrison hitting all the lyrical, indignant, sorrowful, scarifying notes as though this were her fifteenth and not first published work.
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Summary: a masterpiece!
Review: the most wonderful, gut wrenching,soul searching, books you will ever read( next to beloved which will scare the pants of you! for beloved read the book or get the unabridged audio copy of the book DONOT SEE THE MOVIE!). just a sheer masterpiece
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Summary: Racist
Review: I think it's terrible that Oprah Winfrey would recommend a book as anti-white as this. It's not as bad as some "black" literature that blames everything on white people, but it's close. It's very reactionary and unfairly critical. She doesn't promote the beauty of blacks, but only puts down whites. It's insane the way people fawn over this hack.
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Summary: Hope
Review: This book is the best. It gives you hope to thrive upon
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