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Old 04-29-2006, 10:38 PM
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Beloved

For my intro to lit study class we're reading Beloved by Toni Morrison. It's a great novel about a former slave and her grown daughter a few years after the civil war. Their house has been haunted by the mother's baby who died about 18 years before the novel takes place. It goes back and forth through time, reaccounting the trials each character had to endure and how the characters have adapted (or in some cases, not adapted at all).

So, has anyone here read Beloved?

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Yup. It's great.
I like her other work better though. Particularly Sula & The Bluest Eye.
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Have you seen the movie? It actually was almost just as good as the book.

I love how spoiled, jealous, and manipulative the baby is. It doesn't go into detail as to how the girl the baby was in got possessed. I love the part where the other daughter finally admits that it's her sister.
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beloved is awesome. i agree with exor, the movie was great too.

i couldn't enjoy lovely bones because it seemed so juvenile compared to the ghost story that was beloved. beloved is literature.

i love the character called "stamp paid" cuz that's what was on the receipt for him. fkn heartbreaking.
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I really enjoyed Beloved. I like how Toni Morrison messes with words and makes you look closely to see the meaning of them.

The bit in the movie where Beloved spells out her name for the first time really creeped me out!
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