Search - The Color Purple

This book is one of the greats, with characters delineated so clearly that they will live on in your heart. Don't pick it up if you are looking for a light read. Walker deals with some painful issues: abandonment, abuse, self-loathing. But she deals just as honestly with courage and redemption.

A look into a world unknown to me, and written in amazing language. The story is so incredbly sad, while yet uplifting.

Nothing I could say would ever give justice to this book. I read the book twice in 2 days. I couldn't put it down! It has such a powerful effect on you and you really begin to care for Celie. She lives a life of pain and suffering starting when she is only 14 and is raped by her step dad repeatedly. She is then married off in exchange for a cow when she is 15 and becomes a mother to more than 7 children. She is repeatedly beaten and abused emotionally throughout her life, but she finally breaks through and starts a new life with her sister and her children.

I did not enjoy this book one bit. It was a drag to read: I really had to force myself to finish it in the hope that I would, at some point, become aware of what all the fuss was about. Never happened...

Stunning. I could not put this book down, and ended up reading the entire thing in 6 hours over the course of two days.

This is especially noteworthy because I'd seen the movie a couple times and, while I thought it was fairly good, I didn't love it. Nonetheless, the book and movie can't even compare. The movie dropped several plot points, and increased the sappiness factor exponentially. The book, on the other hand, is moving without being at all sappy--rather it's filled with emotional truth and humor.

Walker is a masterful author. I'd encourage anyone (especially any woman) to read this.

Incredibly touching journey; a sincerely written account of lives not often heard about. This book made me laugh, cry, and broaden my perspectives.