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The Color Purple by Alice Walker

11 reviews

leontyna's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

I'm so glad I decided to reread it, I didn't know how to appreciate it before. I loved how Celia grew during the story, seeing her

stand up for herself

was so powerful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Rape

Moderate: Body shaming, Homophobia, Incest, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Death, Drug use, and Infertility

euhfubeuh's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

The book was a surprise to me for depicting a really specific bisexual—

nearly polyamorous

— situation so accurately. As well as dealing with important themes of racial marginalization, it captivating tells a tale of love, self worth, family, and change. Many of its theme still are applicable today.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, and Rape

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Incest, and Infidelity

Minor: Body shaming, Homophobia, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

starrylight's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.75

I see how this is a classic but it was a hard book to read, not in the language or the heavy themes just it was hard

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, and Classism

eekke's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Infidelity and Toxic relationship

tahsintries's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, and Sexism

Moderate: Homophobia and Colonisation

kate_has_book_thoughts's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Slavery, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Colonisation

Minor: Body shaming, Cursing, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia

_sophahs_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

NTS: pages 223, 224 and 230 need to be annotated 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

Minor: Death

jessthanthree's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Medical content, Grief, and Abandonment

anaplopes's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

 A COR PÚRPURA

(Alice Walker - 1982)

Ganhei esse livro como presente de uma amiga no início de 2021. “Amiga, é pesado, mas eu gostei muito, e acho que você também vai gostar”, foi o que ela disse mais ou menos. Pois bem, ela não poderia estar mais certa. 

A Cor Púrpura se passa em um estado do sul dos Estados Unidos no período entreguerras, e é narrado por meio de cartas de Celie para Deus. Celie é uma garota negra de uma pequena cidade, obrigada a enfrentar as situações mais desesperadoras e tristes simplesmente porque aquela é sua realidade. 

Como mencionei, a narração é toda por meio de cartas, escritas por uma garota humilde e sem muita instrução formal. Então uma das particularidades desse livro é o modo como é escrito: não é escrito na língua formal, com ortografia e conjugação corretas, é realmente o modo como Celie estaria escrevendo. A primeira vista pode ser uma dificuldade na leitura, mas torna tudo mais imersivo e real, no final.

Logo nas primeiras dez páginas há menção de estupro, pedofilia, abuso sexual, abuso psicológico e violência doméstica. Como pode perceber não é um livro para qualquer um, não é um livro tranquilo de ler, não é um livro gostoso de ler, não é um livro que passa a mão na cabeça do leitor, que mascara a realidade para amenizar o impacto sobre qualquer um. É a narração crua, é a narração do que está acontecendo, sem mais nem menos. 

Aborda também tópicos como sexualidade, escravidão, colonialismo, a “salvação” de povos africanos por meio do cristianismo, apropriação de territórios africanos… E tudo isso sem parecer forçado em qualquer momento. 

Assim sendo, não preciso nem avisar, nesse ponto, que há diversos gatilhos ao longo da leitura. 

Existe um musical da Broadway bem famoso que adapta a história, porém nunca nem ouvi a trilha sonora.

Em suma, foi uma experiência única de leitura, sobre tópicos muitas vezes negligenciados ou que são abordados de forma superficial e/ou inadequada, sob uma ótica mais singular ainda.

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

lalu's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad

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

4.5

gelesen in 2021

When 14 years old, Celie begins writing letters to God. About being raped by her father, the death of her mother, herself getting married to a widower, falling in love with a female singer - and about the life as person of colour in the southern USA in the first half of the 20th century.

Written in an emotional but at the same time very direct and matter-of-fact way in the southern dialect, one can not avoid asking oneself how many people must have lived through parts of this fictional story. And still do.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Rape, and Sexism

Moderate: Homophobia and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Infertility, Slavery, and Pregnancy