Reviews
I'm glad I audiobooked this, because I have a dreadful track record with anything written in dialect--my brain processes the written version as basically a different language for some reason?--but listening to it made it very easy to follow.That doesn't mean this wasn't a hard read. I don't want to suggest that's a bad thing, because that's definitely what it was going for, but the things these women go through is rough, and I had to set it down for a bit to try to get into a better headspace and distract myself with something lighter. I managed to go into this basically blind--I knew it was considered a modern classic and I remembered something from my childhood about Oprah being involved in a film version (?), but beyond that, all I knew was that it was not fantasy or science fiction, really. I like that I went into it knowing so little, because as things start being said, often casually by a narrator who doesn't really understand what they mean or how horrible they are, it hit a lot harder than it would have had I known more or was expecting it. People can probably provide lovely synopsis and explanations of why this is a classic and important. I can't really say anything further except that this IS a book everyone should probably read, I'm glad I read it, for all the raw emotions it evoked, and it's one of those books that will stay with me enough that I'm not sure I could quite bear to re-read it and feel everything again.
una de las mejores novelas que trata sin tapujos el racismo, la indolencia del ser humano. belleza de película
I didn't cry like I thought I would. I watch the movie adaptation of this book and I was really young so I don't remember much of it. But the small parts that I do remember I remember getting very emotional about. But reading the book I was hooked. I ended up finishing majority of it in one day and then not picking it back up until a little bit later and then finish it again so I really happy with this.
I picked up The Color Purple by Alice Walker on a whim on a used book rack without really knowing the plot behind it. There is only really three things I have to say in response to reading this book and the first is that this book was very hard to read in an emotional sense, in other words I felt every single emotion while reading from anger, hope, to straight up heartbreak. Another is that this is one of those books that just sticks with you and that you end up recommending to everyone you know so they can join you in the eyeopening material that is The Color Purple. Here is a snippet of the brilliant writing that was done by Alice Walker:"It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period."The last and most important to me is that every single one of the females characters from Sofia and Nettie to Shrug and Celie are so incredibly strong and admirable. This is a book that everyone should take the chance to read and experience for themselves, if this is the only book that one were to read then it would have been a very good choice.