I read The Colour Purple in my early teens, was traumatized by the graphic abuse portrayed, and vowed to never read it again. I was curious about why so many of my GR friends rated it so highly and was eventually convinced to give it another go.Years after my first read, I still (of course) have the...
A Great read! I loved Walker's style of writing. Celie a survivor of 20 years of abuse both sexually, physically an emotionally tells her story through a series of letters that she addresses to Dear God at first and then to her sister Nettie. You can hear the sound of the deep south in the narrative...
After I finished the book, I watched the movie, so my review is of the story as a whole, not just the book.The Color Purple is a really sad, moving story. I'd have to say that this is one of the rare occasions where the movie was actually better than the book, because it stayed true to the original ...
After wondering why I couldn't get into the hype surrounding The Help, this book made me realise why: there are so much better books out there. Read this book.
One of my favorite films is The Color Purple. I actually didn't realize it until recently, as I was reading the book and it just happened to come on cable. I proceeded to watch it twice during the time of reading the book and I remembered how much I loved it. Well, the film in no way prepared me ...
What can I say about this book that hasn't already been said. It's a classic. I loved it although I did find the beginning hard to read and hard to get through. The amount of trauma and hardship that Celie had to deal with from such a young age was something that she was just so matter of fact ab...
I liked this book a lot more than I expected to. It was quite a heartbreaking story all around. I loved Nettie (who was my favorite character) and I really enjoyed hearing about her trip to Africa. I thought it was interesting how the village held the roof plant as a sort of deity. I had a harder ti...
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