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Summary: Can you kindly tell me where is the last two para/s.
Review: Besides that i liked the story/stories it was much better when rereading parts i had not understood well, infact then it was enjoyable . I think one does not have to try and compare this one to the other books she has written before. To me it felt like she got all the themes from most of her past books going as one book. It would have to take very good imagination and a high level of consciousness to get through this one, well actually with Beloved as well I suppose,... there I go with the comparison myself, i suppose in the end they are all written by the same person. Paradise too with time, thinking about it, becomes clearer and more fulfilling.
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Summary: Awful
Review: I'm an avid reader & usually can't put a book down until I finish it. This one I couldn't wait to put down. The scenes/characters changed without any tranisition. I had to force myself to finish reading it.
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Summary: Interesting Book
Review: This book has bits and pieces which is not possible to analyse at the first time. Everytime we read there is something new to discover. It is a good book.
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Summary: Flashback Kingdom
Review: A very hard book to follow. I had to push myself through to finish this book. The flashbacks were hard to follow. This book is not a relaxing read. Be prepared for much work when reading this book.
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Summary: Paradise Lost
Review: The best opening sentence I have read. The prose at times is pure poetry. Reading this book takes concentration, though. It is like putting together a puzzle. At times I was unclear and confused about what piece I was looking at. Then the images would become clearer and the piece of the puzzle would fall into place. I enjoyed this book even though I was often confused about where I was in the story and who I was reading about.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Paradise was a wonderful, thought-provoking book. I think that the reason so many people didn't like this book is that there is no clear-cut way to see it: Morrison leaves most of the interpretation up to the reader. Don't pick it up if you want an easy read. I had to read this for a college class and while it confused me at first, I became interested in the characters and themes behind the book. This is the first book of Morrison's that I've read, but I intend to catch up with her backlist. She has a unique voice and a lot to say.
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Summary: My favorite to date from Morrison
Review: If you're looking for a relaxing, purely entertaining read, this is not the book for you. Like all of Morrison's works the characters are complex and the plot is developed in a series of flashbacks. If you're willing to invest a little more effort than your standard "beach read" though, this is an exquisite book, rewarding you with a spiritual lift at the end. I seldom give a 5 rating, but this one deserves it.
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Summary: One big puzzlement
Review: The story is one big puzzle, full of flashbacks that are intertwined and developed, leading to even more puzzlement. I never got all the characters straight, even the major ones. I found it almost impossible to follow the story line. And I found myself falling asleep after just a few pages. However, I plodded on. After all, wasn't this book recommended by Oprah? Didn't this book get rave reviews? Isn't Toni Morrison a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor at Princeton?It's 318 long long pages and I had to push myself to read it. Halfway through the book I almost put it down. Why was I still getting the characters mixed up. Why wasn't I moved by some of their stories? I hoped it would get better after I passed the half-way mark. It didn't. The tone is heavy and depressing. The characters each have deep dark ugly secrets. There is rarely any relief from the long artistic, somewhat poetic sentences. I didn't understand the ending, but at least it was over.
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Summary: Flashes of brilliance but chaotic organization
Review: Toni Morrison is generally worth reading for her lush prose but in this particular book, the organization leaves the reader confused as to what happened to whom and when. I kept looking for the reason behind the obscure structure of the book. There are some powerful moments, especially toward the end, when describing the violence that men have felt towards unfettered women, but overall I was left disatisfied. This could have been a much more powerful book if the reader hadn't had to struggle so hard to figure out the histories of the characters.
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Summary: I enjoyed reading this
Review: Paradise employs those plot devices that identify the author as Toni Morrison. No one writes like she does. You get the complex layering, the jumps in time, and a large cast of characters to keep track of. However, this book was easy for me to follow. I understood it perfectly and I appreciated the thought process it took the author to pull it all together. This is why I rated Paradise five stars instead of the three I rated Beloved and the four I rated Jazz. It may be that I read Paradise AFTER I read Tar Baby, Song of Solomon, and all the others. By the time I picked up Paradise, I had grown accustomed to Morrison's style and moved comfortably back and forth with the action. The ending is revealed in the beginning. But you cannot understand it until you read the book all the way through. Morrison is clever that way. This is no Harlequin Romance or Daniel Steel drama. You will have to use your MIND to understand it. I think Paradise is her greatest ficitional work to date.
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