The Bluest Eye

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Summary: Best high-school reading ever read!
Review: In high school, I read a lot of African American novels. I got sort of tired because it seemed like that all we ever read. When this book came a long, I thought it's just another one. But after reading it, I was glad that I read it. It's a really good book. I'm not a book critic, so I'm not gonna tell you why I like it, but I just do!

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Summary: Cool Book
Review: Hey I may be a kid but i know a good book when I read it. This book was totally awesome. I just loved how the narrator was telling about the marigolds. Read this book!!!

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Summary: A must have for the home library
Review: I am part of a book club which has been formed for 2 years. It is an all female member book club. We read female authors, alternating comtemporary and classical authors. The beauty of the book club is that I have read so many books that I would otherwise never have read. It seems that the majority of the women in the club are so well read. Every book has taken me down a road I otherwise would have not gone. "The Bluest Eyes" is the first and only book I read for the club that I checked out of the library, read it, and ordered the hardbacked copy for my library. I plan to take it to this months meeting and have all the members sign it. It is a piece of literature I hope to pass on to my son and his family. There is no other book that I have such plans for.

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Summary: Society's concept of beauty
Review: Written in 1970, Morrision accurately describes the same type of trauma that results from society's complete understanding of beauty. Pecola Breedlove is driven towards insanity because she refuses to see the beauty that lies within herself. She sees only the white "blue eyed" doll as the only acceptable form of beauty and since she has been told that she is ugly her whole life, she has no control over her obsession with blue eyes. The same sterotypical ideas of beauty exist today more than ever. This book presents so many issues that it is hard to read it and not break down in tears either out of pure pity for Pecola, or out of complete frustration with the society that Morrison portrays. It is an excellent book, written by the most prominent African writer of our time

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Summary: I fell in love with The Bluest Eye.
Review: I know that Toni Morrison is all the rage right now, what with her status as Oprah's favorite writer. But don't limit yourself to reading only the books that Oprah suggests. My favorite Morrison book has not been a part of Oprah's Book Club (yet), but is so powerful and poignant that it prompted me to take a road trip to Ohio to see the city where the narrator and her friends (and enemies -- sometimes one and the same) grew up. This is a beautiful book of friendship, families, racism, love, hate, and confusion.

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Summary: Everyone MUST read this book!
Review: I understand that Ms. Morrison's work can be hard to understand, and the reader must re-read over again to get a full understanding. But "The Bluest Eye" is a book that pulls the reader in, and works with the imagination. For a reader to get the best from this book, the reader must somewhat relate to the author personally, I mean the reader who could get the most out of the book would be a Black American male or female.

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Summary: Nothing Earth-Moving
Review: I must admit, I truely wanted to believe Morrison's book would be a good book. Unfortunately, I was sadly disappointed. Other than Morrison's poetic nature, I didn't see anything that unique or profound. It was simply OK. This was the second chance I gave Morrison in winning me over. The first attempt at reading Jazz was a horrific undertaking. (Even Oprah doesn't try to defend it.) But still, I wanted to enjoy her work and tried The Bluest Eye. The only difference was that at least it was coherent and I could follow the plot. Personally, I find her interviews much more rich and fascinating. She should try writing a non-muddled autobiography.

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Summary: Excellent book from cover to cover!
Review: I had a hard time putting this book down to get some sleep. I throughly enjoyed reading this book it flowed like a river. This is my first Toni Morrison book but not the last.

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Summary: Never have I read a book this full
Review: This book caused more tears than I had ever known. Sadness and pain that words cannot capture. Revealing the lie that beauty can be. Peeling back not only the layers of racism, but of society's obession with outer beauty, as some insane standard of what makes some one beautiful. And others worthless. Each page was read in silence with absolute care, absorbed in this girls search for blue eyes, so that her struggle became my own; Some were so painful that it took all energy to read on, but I did. I finished it over a year ago but it's words still haunt me. My world will never be the same. I could go on for hours, and never reach words to describe this book. I can only think of one. Perfection.

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Summary: An extremely though provoking well-written piece of art.
Review: Toni Morrison shows that she is insightful and carefully choses every situation to compound a higher meaning. This is an extremely thought provoking well-written piece of art that allows us to, no forces us to do a self-evaluation and comparitive analysis to what society, media, outdated ideas mean to us on a deep personal level. This is for the reader that wants to be challenged and is capable of constant mental action: not just a passive activity. I am thankful for this well-written, intellectually challenging and thought provoking higher level of entertainment.