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Radiah
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 12:00 pm: | 
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Has anyone read "Love" by Toni Morrison yet? It's sitting on my bookshelf right now . Any thoughts or comments? |
Anonymous
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 12:41 pm: |
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Radiah, search the archives, there's been much discussion on Love. |
Radiah
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 08:12 pm: |
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Ok Thanks  Haven't been on for a while. |
Chris Hayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 10:54 am: |
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Radiah:
After reviewing our passionate, learned, lurid, heated, brilliant dissection of Love (some might say we beat it to death)--what do you think? Did you have anything to add?
What do you think about the fact that it did not have the legs of other books, such as Beloved? Do you think it was due to lack of the ole Oprahbookclubmagic? |
yukio
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 02:31 pm: |
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"legs" meaning sales? if so, i don't think beloved did well when it first arrive...but literary books aren't suppose to.... |
Radiah
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 05:33 pm: |
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Chris,
I just started Love. I'll let you know when I finish it. |
Chris Hayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 02:14 pm: |
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Yukio:
By "legs" I mean momentum--high and consistent sales.
When sisgal's Beloved was touted by the Oprah Club it stayed on the NY Times Best Seller lists for a long time--
Of course there are those on this list, myself included from time to time, who have dismissed high sales and making the list as irrelevant--
Until their books (or those by writers that they like) make it on there |
yukio
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 03:01 pm: |
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Chris Hayden: As you know, or should know, i've never been interested in commercial success, and i don't think TM is either....our writer in common, Wideman, isn't interested either.....
This is why the question of demographics are irrelevant to me, since i'm not into commericial literature....sales equate to monetary success, as you know, not great literature or music.
Have you read anything by Bernice McFadden? I'm reading the Warmest December...it is such a sad story...i don't know if i feel it though, it just feels or seems like too much pain....perhaps it would be better as a novella....also He SLeeps, as I told our departed InPrint, was a great read...Reginald McKNight is my new friend....i think i'll try and read all of his literature... |
Anonymous
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 03:38 pm: |
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Yukio, I agree you about McFadden's book being sad. The Warmest December was plain ole depressing. And, I think that weighed down too heavily upon the all over aspects of the book. And, I know that colored my overall opinion of the book. |
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