This is a pretty difficult book to read and contains a lot of really mature topics. From what I understood it was a great book but I’m definitely going to come back to it in a few years and read it again.

Like many, I watched the movie before I read the book. Most of the time, you'd expect the movie to do the book no justice. This is not the case for The Color Purple. I love how the movie was missing things from the book because it changed the how we saw the fictional story without altering the nonfictional elements.

Listening to Alice Walker read her own book was amazing.

Review for the audiobook as read by Alice Walker:

I'm not sure of much in this life, but I am convinced that the absolute best way to experience this book is to have the author read it to you herself. A beautifully poignant story read with disarming honesty and soulful tenderness. Walker's voice is a gift to be treasured.

A beautifully written book that really does affirm the human spirit. It is the story of Celie's awakening from self-hatred and abuse to love and reaffirmation. Beautifully written using vernacular in a way that is masterful, clear and poetic. A must read for fans of Alice Walker and American Literature.

At a bar, some people will slam a shot of liquor while others sip a cocktail. This is a sipping book. You read The Color Purple slowly and let the story unfold at its own pace. It would be a crime to rush through this one. Beautifully written. Alice Walker's writing style carried me to a different time and place. Though there the pages tell tales of rape, abuse, and powerful yearnings there is also lightness with the dark. The characters invite the reader on a journey of hurt, healing, injustice, struggle, and triumph.

One of my favorite books of all time. Great characters and story! I loved the strong female characters and the struggles they had to overcome.

The characters in this book freely abuse Celie. The constantly put-upon girl grows up never expecting anything else.

Her redemption is as satisfying as can be, and the peace she finds is almost enviable.

The story is beautifully told, with the plot unfolding through letters written by Celie and her sister.

The characters in this book are wonderful. It is a very raw book that is the story of two sisters bound by hard times.

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"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker... A true classic novel by the African American writer who changed the relationships in the Black Community forever! The student of Toni Morrison of "The Bluest Eyes" fame and Zora Neal Hurston the writer of "Their Eyes Are Watching God".

The Color Purple story begins with the birthing process by a teen mom who is giving birth to a second child who is then taken and put up for adoption, a rough start to a hard story that features, a pre-industrial age agricultural small town of African Americans all struggling to make ends, and raise families without running into conflict with larger White Society.

A rich tapestry of smalltown life featuring a complex cast of characters leading lives of hidden sorrows, joys and aspirations. The chapters are condensed into "letters" between the main character "Ceillie" and God.

As a young teenager, Ceillie is traded for a cow as part of an arranged marriage to a widower simply known as "Mister", a single father with six kids, a dirty house, and no one to look after them. In short order "Ceillie" gets things in shape, as she organizes, cleans, combs hair, and transforms a hot mess into a livable environment. A rough beginning to a tough story. She openly questions "Mister's" parenting skills and finds out that he's extremely abusive.

A complex co-mingling of backstories narrated by self-taught "Ceillie" who now has matured into a stable human being although suffering through heartache, abuse, loneliness and underestimation at the hands of "Mister", to emerge as a educated, reader, who makes her own clothing while caring for the multiple relationships that she surrounded herself with. A twist to the story is the interjection of "Suga", "Mister's"former mistress, and "one who got away" who enters the story fresh from performing and recovering from a longterm drinking binge. A sirly woman, fresh from the Juke Joint circuit tour where she was the featured entertainer.

Even "Suga" gives into "Ceillie's" home cooking, empathy, and sweet ways as she surrenders to her down-home charms. The two become friends and build a alliance that gets stronger over time. And though time passes quickly in this story "Ceillie" and "Suga's" relationship grow and envelops the lives of the rest of the cast of characters that come in and out of their lives, each adding to an already rich and complex story. The Color Purple is deep and meaningful and is clearly a masterwork contained in just under 300 pages.

Reviewed by Ghettostone Publications Company- Editor/Chief Michael R. Brown
The Best Sellers Book Club highly recommends this title to all readers!!!
We agree that it should be considered as a classic tale that enriches the soul!