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Title: A beautiful, haunting tale
Review: I decided to read Beloved as part of a personal campaign to improve the "quality" of books I was reading - or at least to seriously broaden my horizons. I must admit I approached it with some trepidation. I thought that Toni Morrison would be difficult to read, too female-oriented or just plain boring.Of course, as with all great writers, she's nothing of the sort! The language is really beautiful and poetic. The characters in this, what amounts to a ghost story, are extremely well developed. Toni builds the story, eaking parts of each character's history out - leaving us guessing, wondering, wanting more information. At first this can make for some difficult reading as it's not entirely clear in the first chapter just what is going on. But stick with it, it will pay off in the end.
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