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Summary: Excellent
Review: Walker's useage of the vernacular of Celie and the people in her life is vivid and rich; the letter format is enjoyable and gives an excellent first-person view of the action and Celie's feelings. I loved the story and couldn't believe how fast it flew by; bittersweet, happy, sad...I loved it all. I felt enriched in the culture and lifestyles of the characters by novel's end.
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Summary: As good as the movie, but different...
Review: Though I loved the movie, there was so much that was left out, including Celie's love affair with Shug which was a beautiful and integral part of Celie's story. As usual, Hollywood has to white-wash, or in this case, "straight-wash" wonderful stories. This book is so rich in characters and feeling that I wept on many of the pages. I think this is Alice Walker's best work, though I love all her books.
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Summary: An amazing book, sad but powerful
Review: Alice Walker's writing style is incredible. She invents thorough, lovable (and horrible) characters enhanced by the language and descriptions of each. I would not recommend this book for people who don't enjoy sad books, because I have to admit that this book made me cry. However, this book made me cry out of happiness as well. It's a powerful, interesting book that flows along and leaves you with a wonderful feeling.
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Summary: Walker's only intelligent book
Review: If your literary career is going to consist of complete tripe with only one jewel, let the jewel be this. Where to begin: a clear-eyed account of sexual abuse and the effects that can last a lifetime; GORGEOUS language; humor; drama; characters as large as life; a topical discussion of the colonization of Africa; an honest portrayal of the love between two people (in this case, Celie and Shug); and the strength that comes from surviving. I think that Walker avoids stereotyping her men in that she allows them to GROW and CHANGE. All the characters grow and change; and after reading it, you will to.
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Summary: A modern story of awakening.
Review: Alice Walker tells the beautiful/gruesome story of Celie and her long awakening. I was first introduced to this book through the movie version and I must say that the movie did a fine job except that it left out most of the homosexual love. This book made me laugh and cry and realize that with strength and love a woman can overcome.
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Summary: great book about life
Review: I just finished reading this book. This was the kind of book that you just read and go on and read till you get to the end. Then, when you are finished and close the book, the chill runs through your whole body that you feel your hair is sticking up. It'a a great book about how you can find happiness and love in your life. Alice Walker's description of Celie's life just made me wonder how beautiful my own life can be, if Celie could turn her misearable life as a black women in Georgia in the early half of the century into a joy at the end. It teaches me that it's not the materialistic aspect that truely make people happy. Love, family, your own voice, these things are hard to get and often taken for granted. They are not easy to find, as it wansn't for Celie, but the true happiness of life comes from there.
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Summary: DEAR GOD,DEAR ALICE, DEAR READERS,DEAR EVERYTHING,DEAR GOD,
Review: Alice Walker brought me some idea about God. "He ain't a HE or a She but a It." And after all that time, when I exclaimed My God!,it says My IT! To boot, I learn that God exists everywhere and in everybody since God is everything.Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you feel that or be happy to feel that You have found It. I realize,Whatever you do,believe in it first. And then you will win God,win everything...
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Summary: The color purple
Review: This was a wonderful book about us African American. Twosisters who wanted to say together forever but couldn't. Celie wasthe oldest and was being used (sexually) by her stepfather who also got her pregnant twice but she was forced to give her children away. Now Celie was also sold to another man and was also being abused in that home. If this was enough bad luck for Celie she also lost the only person she really love her baby sister Nettie. She was force out of Celie's life by Celie's husband ... Alice Walker you did a good job in writing this one, it was sad, but also had its happy/funny moments in it. Great book.
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Summary: The more I wonder, the more I love.
Review: "I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love." These words intrigued me. I saw the movie first and then read the book. The movie has captured the mood of the book successfully, although the book has a little more stories about Nettie in Africa and about the love between Celie and Shug. This book is not only about black women. It is also about finding love and contentment in daily life, especially in adversity. "If she (Shug) come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn." And this is the lesson we all should learn. That's all I have to say about this book.
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Summary: My favorite book of all times
Review: I first read this when the movie came out some 16 years ago. It was wonderful then, it is wonderful now. The only thing that was hard to get past is the way the author writes in a colloquial speech; once you get used to the flow, though, it isn't hard to understand at all. Also, some things that were glossed over in the movie (the whole African subplot) are explained much more fully here, and give the book a depth that the movie cannot begin to approach.
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