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Anonymous
Posted March 2, 2005
Interesting Book
How do you figure that when you are fighting a drug addiction is called Pinks? Well, anyways the books was an okay book. I enjoyed it, and would read it again if neccesary. How would the book be if the boy really wasn't his son? And what if Willie and Lester had never went into Linden Hills but somewhere else, Would Willie have realized that everything that shines is not gold? Overall this was a good book, a little on the psycho side, but good still yet.
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Anonymous
Posted October 22, 2004
Linden Hills
Linden Hills is an astonishing book that should be recommended to any and everyone. It has style, drama, and satisfaction all wrapped up into one. These mind-boggling situations and actions catch the reader's attention and keeps it. This story is so well-developed that it catches each reader differently. On a scale of 1 to 10, this book would receive a 7.
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Anonymous
Posted October 22, 2004
Linden Hills
Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills takes you on a journey of real life adventures. Touching on homosexuality, religion, deception, and social status, Naylor displays easy to understand situations that depict today's society. She uses simple syntax, colloquial diction, and comedy to engulf the reader into her neighborhood, Linden Hills. This contemporary novel doesn't cease to keep the reader on edge saying 'what's going to happen next?' Naylor exhibits great pacing that leads the reader by the hand, step by step through Linden Hills, for the African American who is 'making it'.
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Anonymous
Posted October 22, 2004
Linden Hills
An excellent portrayal of social class, Linden Hills provides pain and pleasure, entertainment and excitement to describe and discuss the issues within social class. With Linden Hills being the upper class society and Putney Wayne being the lower class society, Naylor discusses the ups and downs of each class and the facades that each class wears. It truly depicts each class in its purity. Tupelo Drive is the place to be. Once you've hit Tupelo Drive you've made 'it'. This is what everyone in Linden Hills dream of, for Linden Hills is only a symbol of success, but Tupelo Drive is like the highest level of success. It is the most desirable state you can be in, for many hope to make it there but few do...
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Anonymous
Posted October 22, 2004
'Making it to the Bottom'
Linden Hills was a very eye opening frame story. It addressed an important isssue of people of the world indulging in all the material things, and not the important issues: morale, family values, and self-love. Through many different characters, Naylor exemplifies how poeple try to achieve the American Dream- make it to the bottom as fast as you can- regardless of the damage and destruction it may cause their soul.
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Anonymous
Posted October 22, 2004
Linden Hills
One word for Linden Hills-Wow! Naylor used simplicity to create complexity. Gloria Naylor was able to hit the nail on the head in a sense. She challenged the idea of living in the 'perfect world', that society tends to ground itself on. Society fails to see that they are living in an 'earthly hell'. Naylor raises the point-we tend to value material things,yet we have nothing at all because in the process we lose our souls in the midst. Now, is that truly heaven? I think we can agree it is anything but that. Naylor also descibes a different hell we don't think we live in, inactuality we do live in self-inflicted hells. She points out something, we tend to make an earthly hell out of things by being fake and not being real, even stooping so low as lying to get ahead. Linden Hills provides a good depiction of 'making it.' Black people didn't have much ,but Linden Hills was the epitome of 'making it.' Upon reading, many will find theirselves in the characters of Linden Hills. Naylor leaves the reader craving for more...but that can be seen as a strategy of hers.
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Anonymous
Posted November 19, 2001
A book with Amazing Insight
This novel touched the inner core of the taboos associated with maitaining one's status in a world superficiality. Naylor addressed many topics that 'progressive and financially secure' blacks are afraid to self-reflect about their role in the materialism of black culture. I enjoyed the subtle and haunting character development and the personal stories of these characters helped the reader grow a deeper connection tothe torment of many bourgoise blacks..
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Anonymous
Posted July 19, 2000
To involved for me.
LINDEN HILLS was a very involved novel that bordered on lost and found. I was lost on several chapters and found my way back in the next. The story of blacks who made it and the blacks who hadn't was a good one, however, the point would have been better if it hadn't dragged on for so long with filler chapters and constant talking between the lines. Still, only if you have the time to kill, should you give it a try.
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