Amazing narration.

Morrison's voice is like melted butter. I felt at home when she was speaking. Story an important tale of race in America.

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Powerful, timeless coming of age story

Powerful, timeless coming of age story with universal themes of identity and trust arising from a story about the confusion and contradictions of the sharp divide in the experience of being black in America.
Beautiful prose set before the civil rights movement allows an emotional resonance and relevance. Superb storytelling masks a complex and layered plot accessible on many levels. Additional context may be apparent to those familiar with the bible.

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Excellent but difficult to follow

I absolutely adored the story. Beautifully read as well, but due to the complexity of the names and the way in which the story is told, it can be hard to follow.
I would recommend listening to this, but reading along with it.
Anyone can read it, and I would strongly advise people to read this book, especially with racial issues still being a relevant issue in today's society

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Great listen

Naration by the author is good but the audio has some gaps and these are filled in by text to speech voice which spoils it a bit. I was also disappointed the book was so short.

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ABRIDGED & NOT ENTIRELY READ BY MORRISON

I can get past the abridged part of this particular book. Honestly it should've been displayed as such but that's not the biggest gripe.

You get lost in how Morrison talks, you're fully immersed and when you least expect it, this drab, old white man comes in to fill in gaps or whatever. This happens very often and just put me off honestly. Do with that information what you will.

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Have to agree with the 2019 Review

Toni is outstanding but this is an abridged version. Feels very disjointed. Can I have a refund credit.

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Narration nowhere near good enough.

Employing an actor to recite the whole book would have been a really good idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Consonants not clearly struck, resulting in the listener unaware of some words. Timing of some of the complete phrases or thoughts was off, due to the pauses being dictated by the female reader requiring to breath in, very noticeably, mid phrase. Heavy...in breathing sometimes...wheezing.. stopping to...breath...in - sometimes more than once in a sentence. Oddly interposed by a competent, clear, male narrator for an occasional sentence, the producer only knows why.
Foot note; perhaps the male vocals where needed after the book was completed, perhaps these inserts replace incoherent, unlistenable and inferior female narration?

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Disappointing, especially the mixed narrators.

Having random male and female narrators was annoying. The story intriguing but never seemed to reach the breadth it could have.

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Missing sections and strange dubs

If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?

I like the book, I would have liked it a lot more if it was unabridged - I didn't realize that it wasn't..

What did you like best about this story?

All the parts that Morrison read

What about Toni Morrison’s performance did you like?

All of the parts that Morrison performs is perfect but there are odd sections completely omitted and dubbed over with a monotonous male voice.. why?

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Sadness, anger, happiness.

Any additional comments?

Why is the story not complete? The whole section where Milkman meets Sweet is missing and so are other sections.. in place of those parts was an odd dubbed over male voice that completely ruined the audio for me.. and I'm disappointed. I wouldn't have bothered if I knew parts were going to be omitted.. I don't understand why that was done :(

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Please note this is abridged !

The abridged nature of this really affects it . A weird voice pops up to summarise missing parts in between the beautiful poetry of Toni’s voice and prose . I couldn’t believe it was finished as so many jumps in this version of the story . Shame as so much potential . I didn’t realise it was abridged and it’s clompily done . My star rating are due to this not the actual writing or story .

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