Audiobooks – Beloved By Toni Morrison
Beloved is a fictional novel by author Toni Morrison. This is a gripping novel that turns history into a story as powerful as Exodus and intimate as a lullaby. Sethe was born a slave, she escaped to Ohio. After 18 years, she is still not free. She has many fond memories of Sweet Home, a beautiful farm where horrible things happened. The house Sethe lives in is haunted by a ghost with a dead child without a name and on the tombstone is engraved the word beloved.
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Review 1: Audiobooks – Beloved by Mimi
Perhaps best read on paper
Lyrical prose is woven into this story of a compelling period in our history. The story line is believable, and is an adept portrayal of how human beings can treat and react to each other. I believe I would have enjoyed this book much more if I had consumed it with my eyes instead of my ears. I missed the opportunity to go back a few pages to check a line or re-read a paragraph. The complexity of the story is at times like the quiet taste of a familiar herb in a vibrantly constructed meal – something you can’t quite place, can’t quite encompass on the first pass. I would recommend this book, with the reminder that other listeners may have the same problem maintaining grasp of the elusive thread. I’ve listened to several hundred books, and would place this in the top 50.
Review 2: Audiobooks – Beloved by Golanka
Incredible novel; not so incredible narration
The novel itself is incredible and powerful. The style is Faulknerian, the feeling it provides is somehow mystical and extremely “real” at the same time.
This should be considered part of the American Canon, assuming there is one (and, I think it is!).
However.
While in theory it sounds good to have the author read her own work, Toni Morrison’s narration has two major flaws:
1. She whispers. Not a major problem in-and-of-itself, but the volume of the recording is so low that it made it difficult to listen to while walking in the city (my usual activity while listening).
2. She doesn’t have the breath to read some of the passages in the book. She had to pause in the middle of sentences to the point that the art of her prose, and sometimes even the meaning of her words was lost.
Review 3: Audiobooks – Beloved By Everett Leiter
You may not like this book.
Rated by the NY Times as the best American novel of the last 25 years, I decided to try *Beloved* by Toni Morrison. I had serious difficulty liking this book at first. It seemed to me that in the first hour or so of this book, the narrator *told* me how the characters felt. I thought, “Wouldn’t it have been better to *show* me, rather than *tell* me?” I thought to myself, “Either Nobel Prize winning fiction is not what it used to be, or I am seriously deficient in my literary appreciation.” I suspect that my own lack of appreciation was at fault, but I would be remiss if I did not mention that I frequently had difficulty staying awake, especially in the first half of this novel. “Suspense as taut as a rope,” to quote the publisher, would not have been my tag for this book. Some friends told me, “Yes, Toni Morrison takes some getting used to.” Others said, “Yes, I hear it’s problematic to read. That’s why I decided not to read it.” Ultimately, I am very glad that I finished this book, because it had a powerful effect on me. The characters and the dilemmas they faced were fascinating and gripping. Be forewarned, however, that this novel requires active participation of the reader: it’s some work to read it. The best way for me to describe it is to say that the novel contains a series of fragmentary episodes, often incompletely described. You, as the reader, have to try to piece together the events. There are abrupt shifts of time and place. Again, there is often no explicit guidance. The reader must infer where in time and place the narrative has jumped to. Perhaps, as a reader, I found it to be rather too arduous. However, in the last third or so of the novel, when all the pieces start coming together, the novel’s accumulated effect was riveting. Now that I understand more about the novel’s structure, I wonder whether I might enjoy re-reading (re-listening?) to it in a few years.
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