Books: Beloved - T Morrison

I'm not sure what my deal is with this book.  It must have been on a required reading list at some point.  But whenever I think up "classic" books I want to read, this one is always there. 

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To its credit:  Beloved by Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1988, was made into a major motion picture starring Oprah in 1998, and in 2006 a New York Times survey of writers and literary critics ranked it as the best work of American fiction of the past 25 years.  So I had high hopes.

The first bad sign that I might not like this book was that as I started reading, I had the sinking feeling that I'd read it before.  And I had.  And I remembered 0.0001% of the story.  (Oops.)  Which is about slavery and reincarnated dead ghost babies.  And terribly tragic lives of sad people.

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I don't mind supernatural stories or fantasy, but something about this was just too... sad? tragic? not relate-able? for me to really get into.  I even had to renew it from the library, which for this fast-reading-girl is something!  It was very haunting, but ultimately not really my style.  Hopefully this time I remember having read it!!

So to #65: Read 33 books (1/33): CHECK.

Ever read Beloved and can explain to me what I'm missing?  Or have you ever read a book and completely forgot it??