Beloved was unbelievable and drawn out. The only reason I can figure out it could have got a Nobel prize is because it was written by a black author and had black characters in it. I read a lot of Oprah Winfrey's book club materials and I was disapointed that she selected this one. I had a lot of empathy for the characters tragedies. After I finished the book the characters ordeals stayed in my mind, but overall I was left with a bad feeling. I refuse to even see the movie. This book did not deserve the recognization it received. It was an ok story, but nothing great. Toni Morrison appears to be very prejudiced and biased and it certainly comes out in her writing.

I read Beloved as an assignment for school and I was left completely confused. The novel, in its entirety, is overpowering and at times I found myself afraid to turn the page for fear of what I may read next. At other times, I had to flip back 5 pages and start sections over again because I was lost. I would not recommend this book to anyone.

It is may be considered vain for a high school student to disagree with the Noble Prize for literature, but in this case I'll risk it. Belved by Toni Morrison was hard to follow and even harder to like. Toni Morrison accomplishes her objective of showing the reader the horrors of slavery but the rest of the story is often silly. The book takes place in Post Civil War rural Cincinnati. It deals with such themes as isotion, guilt, remorse, and the supernatural. Another defect to this book is that the superatural seems out of place in this book. The book starts ordinarily and then a ghost appers. In Beloved, Toni Morrison overdoes her story making her book slow and unenjoyable. But diffrent strokes, some may love this novel but Ill stick by my negative criticism.

I am a fan of Orson Scott Card, who believes that if a writer has something to present, he should present it and quit hinting and beating around the bush. And I agree. But the entire time I read <i>Beloved,</i> I felt as if there were a plethora of ideas that Toni Morrison wanted to get across, but she just WOULDN'T DO IT. And it drove me crazy. The story itself is actually very short, but it is told upwards of six times in flashback, each time with minutely more detail, which I guess would be fine had I been able to CARE about the story anymore by the time I got to the point where it was all explained. Basically this is a boring meaningless story about a woman who kills her daughter, but really ISN'T about a woman who kills her daughter say many critics; I think they're making it up. If it were possible to give this book ZERO stars I would do so.

I have a very difficult time understanding Toni Morrison's style of writing. Since I could't understand her style I couldn't enjoy the content.I ended up returning it to the library without finishing it because it was horribly over due. I just couldn't bring myself to finish reading it.

I HATE this book. Although technically well-written, in a lush imagistic style, its main character Sethe utterly disgusts me. She goes on and on, telling the reader irrelevant and sickening detail about her brutal life as a slave, while focusing on the most meaningless, useless, STUPID details in the present. Some of the supporting characters are no better. Do I really want to read about sex crimes on cows? NO!! This novel has all the finesse of a blind brachiosaur ramapaging through a china market; I threw it down in utter disgust by chapter. Its characters fail to gain any sympathy whatsoever from I, the reader, simply because their motivations are so petty, inconsequential, their observation so niggling and obsessive, their whole beings and selves STUPID and IGNORANT. This novel deserves to have a rating of -3 but unfortunately the scale doesn't go that low. As for the writer, she should have her prize taken away. Make that all her prizes!