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Summary: A Marvelous, extrodinary book that keeps you wanting more!!!
Review: Alice Walker is someone everyone should look up to.She is a well rounded educated writer.If I would give it 10 stars I would.:) The plot is great. Written as an Epistolary Realism got me hooked all at once. "The Color Purple", is about a young woman who is not well educated, who wants to live her life to the fullest;yet is to afraid of life(Celie). Through the story Shug Avery(Mr's ex-lover)sees how Celie feels and can bond with her,because she knows how it feels to be looked down on by people.As the story goes on it just shows how Mrs. Walker's courage and desire to write stays alive always. EVERYONE READ THIS BOOK, ITS ONE YOU WILL NEVER FORGET.
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Summary: I think the book is good
Review: I think the book is really good and it desevers five stars and if the Alice Walker wants to write about that she can I really like this book and the movie.
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Summary: A well written novel by Alice Walker
Review: Set in the southern U.S. during the early 1900's, Alice Walker's The Color Purple gives readers a vivid and terrifying description of the life of a young woman named Celie. This novel shows how a life was lived if you were any other ethnic background or race except white around the 1900's. Celie is a young black suppressed female. Her father molested her, and married to an abusive man, who didn't love her. To help herself coping with these hardships, Celie writes letters to God and her distant sister Nettie, who was separated from Celie by Mr._____. What Celie doesn't know is that Nettie is writing letters to her, however Mr._____ receives these letters. Instead of giving these letters to Celie, he keeps them for himself, storing them in a trunk. This book deals with adult content and issues. Our group believes that some of the information given should be cut. That includes the Africa letters, and the details of rape. Anyone who can stand the levels of these situations should be encouraged to read this book. Our group gave this book 3.5 stars, thinking it was well written, but it had its ups and downs.
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Summary: The worst book I've ever read.
Review: Not only is The Color Purple a disgusting book full of sexual perversion, but it is also full of untruthful propoganda. While I did recognize the need for Walker's graphic descriptions of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, I did not think that her portrayal of promiscuity, infidelity, and lesbianism as totally normal and even healthy acts was called for. In fact, there is a substantial body of research that indicates such behavior is both physically and emotionally unhealthy. Walker tries unsuccesfully to show that Christianity and paganism are really the same (and goes so far as to have Christian missionaries to Africa express this view-- which is totally unrealistic). The "heroine" Shug Avery is a complete slut who makes ludicrous statements to the effect that whatever feels good is moral and what God wants one to do. One does not have to be a Christian to understand that its philosophy does not agree with the worship of plants or sexual promiscuity. While her point that God is not a white male had merit, she goes way beyond that, using the word "God" to carry its conotation over to a concept that is totally contrary to the Christian word "God." This kind of trick is often employed by people trying to promote a concept that has no philosophical merit and can not stand on its own, with feelings associated with an already existing word. I have much more respect for philosophers such as Camus who alow their ideas to stand or fall based on their own worth or truth. Walker also makes statements that are not supported by archeological evidence such as the idea that black Africans built the Egyptian pyramids. In short, this book is designed as propoganda for a lifestyle that is neither happy nor healthy and philisophical concepts that wouldn't stand up to any rigorous debate with either Christian or Atheist philosophers. I do not recommend it to anyone, and am horrified that it won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer prize.
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Summary: This book is riveting and moves the soul!
Review: The Color Purple is a work that should be read and acknowledged by all. It is riveting and moves the soul. Anyone who loves a story that is truthful and expressive should read this book.
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Summary: The Color Purple was remarkable; it touched my heart & soul
Review: I have watched The Color Purple over and over again, and I must say the movie was remarkable and cried out in excellence. The touching story itself made me cry. Ms. Alice Walker has done wonders with this movie/book.
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Summary: This book should be banned
Review: This book is the collection of sick perverted ravings of Alice Walker. I started reading the book thinking it had to be great to win the Pullitzer Prize, but I couldn't even finish it because it was so grossly sickening. I urge you to not read this book because it will subvert you and defile your mind with unwanted perverseness.
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Summary: an excellent book!! well written and wonderfuly persented!!
Review: from the time i picked up this masterpiece, to the time i put it down, alice walker had me entangled in the books magical story. this book gave me the confidence i needed to continue when times got tough for me. all i had to do was sit down and think of how celi coped with all she had to go through, and i was able to pull myself together. i would certainly recommend this book to anyone interested in the hard times faced by many black americans in the earlier 1900's.
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Summary: emotionally draining, refreshing literature
Review: Alice Walker portrays the life of an innocent girl who is put through rape ,physical abuse ,teenage marriage, child birth and emotional abuse. The character of Shug Avery is so bold, she is someone for the reader to love as she gives strength and independence to Celie(the main character), she makes her a true woman. Shug is unique ,despite how evil Mr____(celies husband) can be shug can make him 'weak'. She changes all the characters lives in different but good ways, she is a breath of fresh air in this oppressed society. This novel is for the feminist as Walker portrays the women characters so true to women even in this year. Please anybody who has views on the relationship between Celie and Shug Avery e-mail me it would be a great help to me whith my higher english.Thanks
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Summary: Magnificent
Review: I think a lot of people are put off by the brutal honesty that Alice Walker tells the story with. For me it is refreshing when someone dares to say things as they wish. If you think you're too soft-hearted for this book, don't read it, but if you appreciate honesty, and the undeterred truth, especially about black culture, I highly reccommend it. It changed my life. Thank god for this novel. Looking forward to seeing the movie.
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