Paradise

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Summary: Very Bad Indeed!
Review: Ms. Morrison is unbelievably amateurish and superficial. This book has little to recommend it but hype.

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Summary: Words one can taste
Review: I'm into the third read and am finally "getting it". Ms. Morrison's gift is providing that simple window to her imagination and inviting us to step through it. To consider paradise on earth as attainable only when we love unconditionally is such a powerful notion that few of us ever attempt it. It couldn't be that easy, could it? Or perhaps it's just too hard..

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Summary: What a disappointment.
Review: Toni Morrison has written some wonderful books, but this is not one of them. It is awkward in construction, confusing, and the characters are too numerous and are too often one dimensional. It ought not be necessary to read a book two or three times in order to understand it.

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Summary: A beautifully written Book
Review: Toni's book Paradise is challenging, beautiful, and also full of suspense. In Reading Paradise I found that I had to put 100% of my mind power into the book which was truly rewarding. The chapter that brought everything together for me was Patricia. This is definitely a book that I can read over and over again which I normally don't do. I truly enjoyed the book.

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Summary: Deeply Flawed
Review: This is another overwritten, emotional screed from the highly overrated hack. Paper thin charactors, empty headed plot, and stiff, cliche ridden prose. Ms. Morrison is nothing more than a product of a politically correct and deluded Nobel committee and Oprah hype. A pitiful effort and complete waste of a reader's time and money.

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Summary: a layered, satisfying read
Review: I really enjoyed this book, and look forward to rereading it to pick up on the little details I missed the first time around. The individual women's stories were fascinating. The writing itself was sometimes hard to follow, and it was sometimes unclear who or what was being discussed, but that's what makes the book so challenging, trying to figure out what's going on when little pieces are left out. I thought the book's pace was just right, the story unfolded like a mystery and kept me turning the pages. I didn't want to put it down.

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Summary: hard read, but worht the effort
Review: Altough the first paragraph grabs your attention, the book is difficult to get thorough. Lots of names to remeber and sort out and the chronology jumps around alot. I think this is the best way to write a book though. Everything makes sense at the end, but ther is still questions to be answered with a second and even a third reading that really makes this a great book

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Summary: I just finished "Paradise" and I'm still reeling!
Review: Toni Morrison is brilliant in her new book. I have the sensation that in review, I will find the characters even more multi-faceted than I first thought.

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The Voice of Experience
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"Her voice creates a sense of magical realism."- AudioFile

Read by the author, Toni Morrison has a voice thatperfectly matches this incredible novel.

Subtle, strong, enriching, and engrossing, listen to Toni Morrison read Paradise.

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Summary: Fantastic
Review: I could not put this book down from the minute I opened it. Rich, lush and beautiful and at the same time, sorrowful and disheartening. You will not regret this journey.