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The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison, Ruby Dee
The Bluest Eye
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Format: audiobook
ISBN: 9780375416521 (0375416528)
Publisher: Random House Audio
Edition language: English
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Carmilla Reads
Carmilla Reads rated it
4.0 Gorgeous debut
I read the Vintage edition that included an afterword where Morrison discusses the problems she sees in her first novel, and while I enjoyed Beloved and Song of Solomon more, this book in spite of Morrison's complaints is an amazing debut. We can see in the text the seeds of the author's immense t...
Bookish Blerd
Bookish Blerd rated it
5.0 Review: The Bluest Eye
Wow. Just wow. This was...haunting is the best I can come up with.
rameau's ramblings
rameau's ramblings rated it
5.0 I was unsure, petrified...
...and then the last two pages happened. At first I was terribly disappointed—because obviously this unnecessary explanation of the brilliance before had been tacked on specially for thick white people like me—but no. Those last paragraphs were there to deliver the final punch in the last five sente...
Abandoned by Booklikes
Abandoned by Booklikes rated it
5.0 The Bluest Eye
Please note that this book deals with rape and incest. This book has left me thinking over certain themes for days. I think the best thing I can say about any book is that I can't stop thinking about it. "The Bluest Eye" was so hard to read in parts that I honestly was surprised when I got to the en...
VariousAwesomes
VariousAwesomes rated it
I just can't get behind a story told so haphazardly. There is no linear timeline or plot. The whole thing is just a character study done in countless vignettes from different people's points of view. It was physically painful for me to read as it resulted in a bunch of confusion, dissociation, and h...
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