Epinions Recent Reviews for Beloved by Toni Morrison

Beloved by Toni Morrison: True Story!

Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:03:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sbunnell27 - Whats amazing about Toni Morrison's Beloved is this: its a true story. A woman named Garner does what Sethe does in the book. Minus the mystics and ghosts and romance--this happened! This book is Morrison's attempt to create a book that is true to the...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: Beloved - What would YOU do to protect your children?

Sun, 3 Feb 2002 23:56:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arihamilton - Beloved by Toni Morrison

Ah, the 25th review on Beloved. Why should you read this review? Because you like me! Um, I’m sure you aren’t buying that one. Well, I’m going to try to give you a different perspective...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: Toni Morrison's Beloved

Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:18:32 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lorenmgreen - this was the third Morrison book I've read and I can probably say it was my least favorite. I should note that I have only read it once, and many of the more positive reviewers here seem to recommend multiple readings.

In short, Beloved tells...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: The Choice

Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:45:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cmims - Perhaps one of the best fifty books written in the 20th century, Beloved immediately presents itself as a great work with its richness of language.

From the dedication, "Sixty Million and more," which is the figure of the Africans who died on...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: "Aspiring Pride and Insolence"(1)

Wed, 28 Mar 2001 05:40:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mattygroves - 'What she want to go and do that for?'(2) To a parent, Sethe commits the worst possible or imaginable crime, that of infanticide. Yet in Beloved Sethe murders her 'already crawling' daughter in a particularly horrific manner, yet is still a...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: Slavery Made Real

Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:29:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mlgosser - Toni Morisson's novel "Beloved" is a triumph in every sense of the word. Not only is it recognized as one of the first novels to effectively capture the real life struggles of slaves, but it won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for its literary breakthroughs...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: very mature novel

Sat, 17 Mar 2001 18:09:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author eunicekim - Though the movie received a lot of reference, the book is the real source and story. The book is in a very simple language, and yet portrays such a complex novel and story line.

Morrison's novel is a ghost story placed in the minds of African...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: A Mother's Beloved

Thu, 22 Feb 2001 03:15:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - So many Epinions writers are making lists (favorite albums, favorite movies, gifts they'd like to receive) and I've enjoyed reading them. Lists are fun to make, and of course, it made me think about the ones I'd make, like of my favorite books (if that...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: The first major novel about slavery!

Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:03:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Free2Be - Beloved is, as far as I know, the very first novel (published in 1988) by a major American writer to take on the subject of slavery! This is incredible. Only Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous propaganda novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written before...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: Read It Again

Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:30:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ImAznSoImRight - Beloved was a book I had to read for summer reading for my AP Lit class, and I have to say that it's a terribly hard book to read. Not only because I didn't seem to understand what was going on, but because it's not in chronological order. It's a bunch...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: DEARLY BELOVED

Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:15:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sunnydayM - While searchin in our library for something to read, I came across a copy of BELOVED. I knew it is one of Oprah's selections and that she liked it well enough to make it into a movie. I had not seen the movie, being somewhat turned off by...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: Seeking to Understand Morrison's Beloved

Thu, 31 Aug 2000 21:56:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author amykhar - Beloved , by Toni Morrison, is a hard book to read if you are a parent. The concept behind the plot almost guarantees you will never be able to forget Morrison’s protagonist Sethe, much less her fateful choice.

Typically, I...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: Lessing's Beloved?

Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:28:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lansky2000 - Both Toni Morrison's Beloved and Doris Lessing's The Summer Before The Dark have provided insightful commentaries on social standards from a feminine perspective for the benefit of fans and scholars alike. Yet their viewpoints in the two...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: Dickinson's Beloved?

Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:08:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lansky2000 - In the 70's, the multimedia industry formulated an innovative concept in videotape presentations. By superimposing a soundtrack over a film sequence, they came up with a novel approach from which MTV was born. If we follow this train of thought, we can...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: Tormented Souls

Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:14:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ehetzler - Several months ago, I found myself stranded in a small out of the way southern airport with nothing to read. The newsstand did not appear promising. I decided to look out of sheer boredom. The selection was pretty much what I expected consisting of how...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: Toni Morrison is Incredible

Sun, 9 Jul 2000 22:57:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author skeebird - I cannot say enough good things about Toni Morrison. She is a literary genius. "Beloved" was a feast for my imagination. The imagery depicted was no less than breathtaking.

Toni Morrison, as a writer, has a gift for tracing...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: Beloved...think infanticide and racism

Sat, 1 Jul 2000 13:07:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author AudreyMc - Beloved by Toni Morrison is pregnant with infanticide. The story takes place in post-Civil War Ohio. The main character is Sethe, a runaway from her owner, a schoolmaster from Kentucky. She escapes, giving birth to her fourth child on a boat...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: Excellent novel - Not for all

Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:41:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cjanson - If you are looking for an easy read, this is not it...but...

This book is outstanding. In fact, most of Morrison's books are. She is an exceptional author who chronicles the black experience with a richness, flavor and solidity to which...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: Confusing? I didn't think so

Fri, 9 Jun 2000 14:32:50 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author b0b - Looking at all the other reflections on Beloved on Epinions, you'd think it was the most difficult book to read since Ulysses. I heartily disagree - I read it three years ago now, and didn't find any problems.

Sethe, an ex-slave, escapes to freedom...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: I am on my fourth read of this AWESOME, BRILLIANT book

Tue, 6 Jun 2000 16:37:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Novelist_KC - I am on my FOURTH, yes FOURTH read of this awesome, brilliant work of art. I first read Beloved in my mid-twenties, and frankly found it to be confusing, murky and nearly impossible to finish.

Around thirty, I tried again, realizing that...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: Complex, lyrical, telling

Wed, 24 May 2000 13:46:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author hhh6 - I was standing in the Cornell bookstore looking for a light read to take onto the plane with me when I spotted someone picking up a copy of Beloved. I asked the lady whether or not she had heard the book was good and she responded that someone had...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: Beloved - the difficult books

Sat, 20 May 2000 19:51:48 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author GloriaLane - I found this book difficult to read and quite boring. The book was very difficult to follow and I never knew where one story line ended and another one picked up. I cannot understand why Oprah thinks this is a good book and I have realized that the books...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: Beloved; a difficult read.

Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:31:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Maratoy - Beloved is a very well written book about a Black woman, Sethe, her child Denver, and the hardships that they overcome. The book's focus surrounds the spirit of Sethe's (the heroine) dead baby Beloved. When Sethe and her living daughter, Denver are...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: brilliant and inaccessible

Tue, 22 Feb 2000 05:32:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cashew25601 - I can understand why so many other reviewers gave this book a poor rating. It was extremely confusing and probably one of Morrison's more inaccessible books - although all her books are so layered with meaning that they tend to bewilder.

Do...

Beloved by Toni Morrison: come again?

Sun, 13 Feb 2000 19:33:12 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author nids - Toni Morrison is a masterful storyteller. It's a shame she falls short with this novel. It truly is wonderful for the first few chapters, until you get so confused that with every page you turn you've got to flip three pages back to make sure you're on...