Rating: 
Summary: Murky, but Melodious, Melodrama
Review: Ever since BELOVED, and particularly exemplified in PARADISE, reading a Toni Morrison novel can be likened to swimming upstream in a deep pool of rich, sticky chocolate pudding-sometimes sweet, sometimes suffocating, and always tiring. Her latest novel LOVE does not depart from the author's esoteric, albeit often haunting, and even beautiful, writing style.
With occasional lucid moments-usually triggered by the too infrequent dialogue between vaguely-drawn characters-LOVE's plot is spun slowly, teasingly, peppered with lyrical prose, and leading the reader to hope for a finish that bursts in a crescendo of enlightenment, answering all of the questions that have been sprinkled so melodramatically throughout the storytelling. Unfortunately, the finish fizzles, leaving the reader not only humming, but harrumphing, as in: "Is that IT?!" After wading through 201 pages that read like 525, there should be a little more satisfaction when the last page is turned; but then, that would have been antithetical to what her readers have come to expect from a true Toni Morrison experience.
Rating: 
Summary: Eye opening
Review: From someone who is not a regular reader. I found this book to be hard to get into. I'm a fan of Morrison from Song of Solomon, I read that while in high school to me it was a difficult read at the age of 17 now i'm 24 and was seacrhing for something to enlighten me, challege me and this did. Once i got into it I loved her style of writing it requires u to think to comprhend. I like enchaning my vocabulary when i read and she provides tha that,this is rare it was a good read.
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