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Tee C. Royal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 10, 2003 - 09:15 am: | 
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Sorry, but I'm moving my reply to this topic to a new thread. :-)
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Thumper said:
Hello All,
I'm ticked about this mess with these silly people and I'm ready to move on.
October 28, 2003, Toni Morrison's new book, Love, will be in bookstores all over the country. I can't tell you all how much I'm looking forward to it. I know several people had trouble reading Paradise. Just because a book is literature, does that necessarily mean that it should be hard to read. I ask this question every time I begin a Toni Morrison book.
Every few years when Morrison publishes a book it seems people who discover the pleasure of reading chooses her latest book to read first. I strongly recommend for those who fit that bill to read Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, or Sula first. Take your time.
Tee replies
Thumper, I am looking forward to this one even though I couldn't finish Paradise or Song of Solomon; couldn't even listen to them on audiobook. I am however taking a class on Literary Criticism of Paradise later this month, so hopefully I'll get a better understanding of it. I think her books are ones that have to be read it total silence and concentration...sort of like The Ectastic by Victor LaValle. Until I shut everything else out, I couldn't focus on that book, but once I did, I enjoyed it.
Now, back to Love...I do plan to purchase and read it. I hope it's not a BAB.
-Tee |
yukio
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 10, 2003 - 12:41 pm: |
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TCR:
Read Morrison for the story, first. Try to really experience the novel not only as a "reader" but as silent character in the story...Morrison's literature is participatory.
Also, if necessary, take a few minutes to skim the chapter you just read...this can help you understand anything you think you've missed. Or just read it thru and enjoy the narrative. If you own it, you can always pick it up.
And indeed, you definitely need silence. You have to respect her literature and give it your undivided attension. |
Chris Hayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 10, 2003 - 01:02 pm: |
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Don't they have an excerpt in this month's Essence? |
yukio
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 10, 2003 - 01:27 pm: |
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yes....not enough to attract me....but its TM so i'll be patient! |
Chris Hayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 10:08 am: |
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Yukio:
They do have it. I have read it. October 2003 page 2003. It is short--not very sweet, though. |
yukio
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 05:42 pm: |
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CH:
yeah...it wasn't a very good excerpt....and it wasn't even enough to constitute a chapter....i wonder y she allowed them to do that? |
Chris Hayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2003 - 10:22 am: |
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Yukio:
She may have done it at the behest of her publishers who only want to give the reading public a taste and know that they probably will buy the book whether they get one or not. Maybe she was just trying to make that issue of Essense a collector's item.
On the other hand, though once noted for fiction and poetry Essense has become more of a black Vogue lately--they are at with ads which unfortunately, is what magazine publishers are seeking more than readers or subs. |
yukio
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2003 - 03:51 pm: |
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hmmmmm....concering your comments in the first graph i ten to agree. As it relates to Essence, however, i think that the magazine does an amazing job at adressing cross class, generational, and cultural readership, though i think it readership is probably primarily the middling african american woman, who are socially conservative and culturally liberals.
BTW, i'm not trying to change the thread.
Also, i'm reading Paradise....you should check the first section.... |
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