Book Reviews of 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.

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

Interesting, but more graphic than I expected

This is one of my all time favorites! The movie will never do the book justice. Just READ IT! Enuff said.

I thought this would be better. Maybe I'm not a reader of classics or maybe I just didn't see what all the hype was about. It was a good story but it wasn't on top of my list.

Very easy read! I love this book, it was very touching.

Oh wow, oh wow! Oh wow! One of the best books ever. It deserves 7 stars.

A wonderful classic!

Didn't like it, but I know a lot of people do.

I avoided reading this book until now because I thought it would be difficult and depressing. It was depressing at times, but it wasn't nearly as difficult as I had expected. (I still haven't figured out if "her sister doctor" means "her sister's doctor" or "her sister the doctor," but the former makes more sense in context.) The only aspect of the book I'm still trying to puzzle out is the characters' changing relationships. Like musical chairs players, every character kept running off with every other character's spouse, and I wasn't expecting that.

Truly an excellent book, I would recommend this to anyone.

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