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title: "The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Edition Hardcover – May 22, 1992"
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# The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Edition Hardcover – May 22, 1992

**Brand:** alice walker
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- **What is this?** The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Edition Hardcover – May 22, 1992 by alice walker
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## Customer Reviews

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    The Color Purple
  

*by L***C on Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2018*

If you, like myself, have seen the movie and think, " I don't need to read the story," you're wrong.While there are, naturally, many similarities between the two...there are by far MANY more differences and they're great.While both the novel and the movie can, and do, stand alone, I highly recommend you give both a chance. I combined them in my head as I read and I think it just heightened them both for me.Please don't pass on the novel or the movie if you've read or seen one but not the other.SO well written.And I'm still irritated that The movie was completely ignored during the Academy Awards that year. A combination of racism spread out against 2 different entities. Those of African heritage and those of Jewish heritage.Read this and watch the movie.You'll regret neither.

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    Disrespect
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2019*

Sophie has 5 children with Harpo.  No one knows who is the father of the 6th.  Shug has two children by Mr.--- but I'm not sure where they are or how many other children she has by who knows how many men.  Squeak has children by Harpo who is still married to Sophie.  No one has any respect for anyone. Everyone is dissatisfied with everything.  Dysfunction. Dissatisfaction.  Disrespect.  The one story that was of interest was of Celie and Nettie's parents who tried to make something of themselves but we're brutalized by jealous, mean white men.  I'm not sure why this is such a highly acclaimed book. To me it's a bunch of children having children and disrespecting everything.

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    Wow - This is epic, biblical, powerful, and finally beautiful with strong characters who realistically transform
  

*by H***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2017*

The book discussion group met in March 2017 to enthusiastically discuss this. Wow, we loved this book. Most of us had seen the movie at some point in the past (and a few of us had seen the Oprah-produced Broadway musical), but it turns out this is a favorite book of a few members of the group and everybody liked it lot. We rarely get this kind of universal praise for a book, so you know that if you didn't read it for group, you should still definitely put it on your list of books to read.Most of us agreed that the language is tough and off-putting for the first few letters, but you both get used to the odd spellings and grammar and also the writing gets better at Celie writes more. After eight or ten letters, it all seems pretty normal.The violence and cruelty is also tough and off-putting in the first part of the book but again, it gets less violent and you get used to it (what a horrifying thought!) as the novel continues.The words that readers used to describe the events and language in the novel are "epic," "biblical," "powerful," and finally "beautiful."The story seems huge and the family tree is complicated with parents, step-parents, unacknowledged parents, forced marriages, lovers and mistresses, as well as two dead unnamed mothers. But the major characters are clearly defined and change during the novel and, unlike many novels, the changes are clearly explained and well motivated by events in the novel.Celie is so desperate to be loved that she loves everyone else without thinking of herself. The men are largely evil (this is probably a valid criticism of the novel) who are forced to learn and change by the strong and far more admirable women who shape them.We enjoyed discussing butch and femme women (as well as the stupidly masculine men as compared to the loving and generous men), the open lesbianism, and the alternate Christian theology presented largely by the openly sexual Shug.I thought that the African letters from Nettie were a bit dry and anthropological compared to Celie's personal and emotive letters. And a few of the readers thought that the ending was perhaps too happy with everyone turning out to be a better, more evolved character.But these are quibbles compared to the well-drawn characters, the wide scope, the emotional fulfillment, and the positive changes that most of the characters undergo.

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