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The Color Purple
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bookshelves: 2011, ah-may-zing, literary-keepsakes, historical, sobs
Dec 27, 2011
bookshelves: 2011, ah-may-zing, literary-keepsakes, historical, sobs
Wow. I mean. Really. Wow.
You know how there are some books and their words wrap around you like a comforting blanket? Well...
This. Is. Not. One.
The Color Purple rips the clothes right off of your skin, leaving you bare and vulnerable. From the first freakin' moment opening the page. You are just THERE and you can't be anywhere else but THERE. Even when you're not.
Wow.
Have you seen the movie? I had. I thought I was prepared. Because the movie was devastating. I remember vividly being in the house that me and a couple of college friends rented, sitting there in the dark, all of us sitting on our furniture, chain smoking, drinking wine and crying. The movie didn't prepare me.
Walker's words are music. Sometimes a sweet melody, but mostly a cacophony of pain and sorrow. Oh and how the characters change and grow with time, how they eventually find peace. And the dichotomy of the South and Africa? It makes me yearn to find pieces of literature that can show me the mysteries of that continent.
I am incoherent and refuse to speak of the summary. It's The Color Purple! It doesn't need a summary.
It is alive.
It is life.
You know how there are some books and their words wrap around you like a comforting blanket? Well...
This. Is. Not. One.
The Color Purple rips the clothes right off of your skin, leaving you bare and vulnerable. From the first freakin' moment opening the page. You are just THERE and you can't be anywhere else but THERE. Even when you're not.
Wow.
Have you seen the movie? I had. I thought I was prepared. Because the movie was devastating. I remember vividly being in the house that me and a couple of college friends rented, sitting there in the dark, all of us sitting on our furniture, chain smoking, drinking wine and crying. The movie didn't prepare me.
Walker's words are music. Sometimes a sweet melody, but mostly a cacophony of pain and sorrow. Oh and how the characters change and grow with time, how they eventually find peace. And the dichotomy of the South and Africa? It makes me yearn to find pieces of literature that can show me the mysteries of that continent.
I am incoherent and refuse to speak of the summary. It's The Color Purple! It doesn't need a summary.
It is alive.
It is life.
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
December 27, 2011
– Shelved
December 27, 2011
– Shelved as:
2011
December 27, 2011
– Shelved as:
literary-keepsakes
December 27, 2011
– Shelved as:
ah-may-zing
June 27, 2012
– Shelved as:
historical
June 27, 2012
– Shelved as:
sobs
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Totally. Your review was my experience of reading this book.
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great review! just loved this book, too.
Your review sums it up so well. It was like this book had no end and no beginning, it's just there. It's not a book that feels like just because the pages stopped, the characters stop. They live on in your heart, you know they're still there doing life.
Have just finished reading it... You have presented a great review. The book is just an interesting work with memorable characters. Color purple is walker's attempt to embody her own particular vision of black feminism in a work that transcends ideology.
I wouldn't change a word.
Would like to add that this book is a great example of how books are much better than the film adaptations. I have a lot of respect for Spielberg but when I watched the film wantin to immerse myself in the life of Celiebit just didn't happen. "Mr--" was too benign in the film and Goldberg did not convey the whole Celie character I gathered from the story. And what about all the feminist and religious dialogues/ monologues of the book?
Thanks for this review. it really dose strip you and leave you vulnerable. Such a great description!
Do you think that the plot of the story was good since you do not think that the story was not good at all? Was the plot layout at least good?
There aren't many books that'll change and enlighten your soul. This is one of them.
That was so like Me. this Books Is Just such a Masterpiece for me nd Unforgettable for coming ages
What a beautiful review
Does every chapter of this book starts with a letter to God? Like Dear God...
I love this review so much. I completely resonate with every word you have written.I just finished reading it and I am In so much awe, I haven’t felt this way after finishing a book in a long long time.
Such a great review. Teared up a little.
Amazing review! I loved this book so much.
Just can say: good book. Recomended.
