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Najbardziej niebieskie oko by Toni Morrison

31 reviews

lockg6704's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

As always incredible writing and incredibly impactful and challenging 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Racism, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

gellyreads's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

I feel like an asshole as I say this. I suppose I am. I remember reading Morrison before in college and loving and appreciating her. I just could not with this book. I really do not enjoy novels that are deliberately hard to read. (I only understood Claudia's POV.)

I also just really can't be okay with the idea, even if it's a child's, that a father raping his daughter is okay because he loved her.

Yeah, no. I guess I don't get it, and I should have someone explain this one to me. But I don't know that I want to try to read this one again and put in that effort. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Pedophilia, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Rape, Incest, and Bullying

kvjrist's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

“All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. And all of us——all who knew her——felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified is, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used——to silence our own nightmares. And she let us, thereby deserved our contempt. We honed our egos on her, padded our characters with her frailty, and yawned in the fantasy of our strength.” pg. 205


Emotional damage.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Incest, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Physical abuse

willschlesinger's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Racism, Incest, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Physical abuse, Animal death, Domestic abuse, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Child death

asililydying's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Violence, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

iheartapolloxxi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Blood, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Classism, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, and Incest

sienna_54's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

cried in public TWICE reading this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Incest, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Animal cruelty

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.25

The language in this book is so wonderful. Each word tumbles into the next—a pace that I occasionally wanted to slam the brakes on due to the perverse and horrific things the words depicted. But the words tumbled on, slipping and sliding and settling in my brain. It’s odd, because they seemed comfortable at first, but quickly became restless as Morrison’s words stayed in my brain long after I’d put down the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Body shaming, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Racism, Racial slurs, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Bullying, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Classism, and Sexual content

Minor: Excrement, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, and Abandonment

aleksanski's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Incest, Dysphoria, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Abandonment, Bullying, Abortion, Death of parent, and Miscarriage

Minor: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

karihyuuga's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Bullying, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Racism, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Incest, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Mental illness, and Miscarriage