All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.One of the books that anyone should read.
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An excellent novel, although perhaps a tad over praised in the rush to include it in the American literary canon. Hopefully writers like Richard Wright and James Baldwin will not be forgotten because of a new African American writer has been added to the required reading lists.
I wasn't entirely sure I would like this book. Boy, was I wrong. I absolutely adored it. From the minute I picked it up, I couldn't put it down. I became completely absorbed. My intense desire for Celie and Nettie to be reunited kept me up for hours reading. The characters are wonderfully written an...
Incredible and moving, this book made me cry practically the whole way through Celie's story will break your heart. And the reunion with her sister will heal it. I could not put this book down and read it in a day. I can't recommend it highly enough.
The book is a series of letters mainly by the main character, Celie. At first she addressed her letters to God cuz there ain't nobody else. She writes of her miserable non-existent life; she wrote that her life was worse than being buried. From being sexually abused by her father, she passed on to...
It almost feels like sacrilege to admit, but I actually didn't think too much of this book. I saw the movie as a teenager and was very impressed by it, so either my opinion has changed over the years (likely) or I just wasn't too keen on the writing style (also very likely). However, it's one of tho...
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