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Title: Toni Morrison's Paradise (MAXnotes) by Toni Morrison, David M. Gracer ISBN: 0-87891-198-7 Publisher: Research & Education Association Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.29 (302 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not For the Faint of Heart
Comment: Toni Morrison is my favorite writer, and I won't hold this book against her. For me, though, my experience with Paradise began much the same as my experience with Beloved: I tried to read it a couple of times, got into the first few pages, then put it down. It seemed just so complex. In both cases, though, I finally picked up the book a third time and read it all the way through. I loved Beloved, but this book was different. It's basically about people in a black town who think that a lot of the evil in that town is due to the presence of the strange women who live in the "Convent". Toni takes a lot of time to develop the characters, and that is commendable, but there are just TOO many characters...in the end I got just plain confused, trying to keep up with who was married to whom, and who lost what child in what year. It just was a bit too busy for me. But to her credit, Toni Morrison, paints colorful imagery; I simply love the way she writes, and that's what is giving this book three stars. She is a master of her craft. Granted, I don't like to have my intelligence insulted by having the writer explain every little thing to me, but with this book, I'm like, "insult my intelligence already!" There were just so many unanswered questions for me in this book, and I don't think you should have to go back and re-read a book (what I'm doing now) just to understand what on earth is going on. This is a lengthy book, so if you've got some time to kill, and you enjoy a challenge, you may actually want to give it a try.
Rating: 4
Summary: Beautiful and Divine
Comment: I admit that Paradise is a hard read, but Toni Morrison's work usually is. While the characters were many and embedded in prose, one must remember that not one word is wasted. To fully understand a Toni Morrison book one must do more than read. Read with a pen if necessary. It might require more than one reading to completely understand Ms. Morrison's version of Paradise or hell on Earth for that matter, but the rewards are great. For those who complain that this novel was scattered and just plain difficult, I would suggest starting off with one of her easier works (i.e The Bluest Eye or Sula) and then working up to Song of Solomon, Beloved and Paradise. I can almost guarantee that you would change your review.
Rating: 5
Summary: I loved this book
Comment: I want to start off by saying that Toni Morrison is an author that only the brave try to read and understand. I've read Sula, Bluest Eye, and I am still trying to figure out Song of Solomon. I really did enjoy them all. Yet, some people may complain about her style of writing or the fact that "Paradise" has an enormous amount of characters, but I see it another way.
"Paradise" is a beautiful story about the choices that people make and how they affect community; it's a story about following your heart. I know, in my case, that as I read the story, I was constantly finding that I had something in common with each of her characters. From Soane Morgan's indecisiveness to Roger Best's desire to please, to Pallas Truelove's search for true love. Each character has its purpose in the story no matter how small a part. And that is one of the things that makes "Paradise" a well-written book. Sure Morrison could have clearly left some of the characters out of the story but the story would not have been the same.
Morrison is known for taking readers on a trip where they are constantly traveling back and forth through time. But I was okay with it because I took a few notes. I also found myself captured by each character's story, which made it a hard book to put down.
I believe that "Paradise" is a work of poetry. The prose of life. The story of pride and prejudices. The exploration of cause and effect. All these things are intertwined in the story because these are the things that make life what it is. And these things are so successfully used by Morrison in the book, that Paradise will always be a read that forces you to reflect on your own life after you are done.
I will not lie and say that "Paradise" is an easy book to follow or that it is a book that you will only have to read once to understand. I read it for the third time and I am still pick up on things in the story that I either overlooked or didn't understand. And the shocking part is that each time I read the story, I find that it is just as intriguing and interesting as it was the first time. But that's what great about Toni Morrison books. It takes time and dedication to read.
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Title: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0452260116 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: September, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Sula by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0452283868 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 05 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Jazz (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0452269652 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Tar Baby by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0452264790 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: September, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Love by TONI MORRISON ISBN: 0375409440 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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