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Summary: A great story but hard to follow
Review: I am currently reading this book at a university and I find it is one of the hardest books that I ever read. The story however is great and it shows how wemen have historically been abused, and seen as housewifes all along. Zora Neal really captures the feeling of the 30's-60's. I would recommend this book to a person if they have a lot of time on their hands.
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Summary: Definitely touching!
Review: For non English native speakers, it can be quite hard to understand, but once you get really into it, you'll love the strength of this woman!
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Summary: I like this book better every time I read it.
Review: I teach "Their Eyes" to high school juniors and seniors every semester. Usually, we read it aloud in class to get the full effect of the dialect. What fun! They really get into the story. They argue about whether Janie was a spoiled brat (because she wouldn't help Logan) and wonder why she didn't get rabies from Tea Cake (because he bit her as he died). But mostly they just love the whole love story. On a recent essay, one student wrote, "Janie always kept her door wide open. What she didn't like in her life, she let blow right through. And what she liked, she kept." You gotta love that kind of response as a teacher. It's a wonderful, thought provoking book.
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Summary: The best high school required reading ever.
Review: I had to read this novel when I took AP Literature in high school. I enjoyed reading it more than any other required reading I have ever had.
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Summary: I look forward to reading more of Hurston 's work
Review: Hurston does an excellent job of articulating the complexities of female opression. She uses language and thought processes specific to African American people during that time. Oddly, her writing style reminds me of Shakespear in that they both use the language of the people about whom they write. Early English for Shakespear, Early Ebonics for Hurston. This story is a wonderful piece of literary writing, it is poetic, romantic, and symbolic of our ongoing desire to connect with a life long partner with whom we can grow and expand to our full existence in the universe. An excellent book, we should grow up reading this one.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: I used to work in a bookstore, and would always be convincing people to buy "Their Eyes Were Watching God" one time I sold it to a fairly annoying, skeptical guy who came back the next day to thank me for making him buy it. He said it changed his life. I believe this book to be very powerful, and you can bet I'm not going to stop cajoling unsuspecting folks of reading it's fine pages.
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Summary: I guess I didn't get it
Review: I can tell when everyone is raving about something that I found profoundly tedious, that there is something in that book that I missed. Probably in my desperate efforts to sound out all the dialogue in my head. I felt that I had to try so hard to do this that I missed what the people were actually saying. It was almost like reading a book in a foreign language. I never did identify with any of the characters, nor did I like any of them. I did not actively dislike most of them, either, I simply did not care. I find nothing heroic about a woman who simply reacts to everything and everybody. The relationships left me cold, and I certainly found nothing romantic about Tea Cake's possessiveness and physical abuse. The one redeeming part of the book was the narrative, but I'd estimate that comprised something like 35% of the total text, the rest was dialogue, a huge portion of which seemed fiercely racist to me. I honestly found it difficult to finish this book, and only kept reading it because I was expecting it to get good, for something to happen. It never did. The only other time I have felt this was reading Stegner's Angle of Repose. Both these books made Top 100 Novels lists. I thought at first that perhaps one had to be black to "get" this book, but now that I read the reviews, I find it has a much broader appeal than that, so maybe I'll try this again in 20 years or so. By then maybe I'll have forgotten how mind-numbingly boring I found it.
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Summary: This book is great, should be a movie
Review: She did a wonderful job writing this book. I love the way she wrote in down south lingo instead of trying to speak proper. I love this story. All the charactors are great. She put them all together perfectly.
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Summary: Perfection!
Review: Having read a lot of criticisms surrounding Hurston's works, I still find them (and specifically this one) to be pure perfection. The dialect, the expressions. . . better than the richest dessert!
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Summary: Beautiful Language; Beautiful Characters; Beautiful Story
Review: This book is not just for women! However, the lessons that Hurston teaches in this novel are lessons that must be heard by every woman on the planet. Janie is a powerful woman who dies twice while living in the shadows of men. Finally, she finds Teacake, a man who lifts her up on a pedestal of sunlight, instead of breaking her. This story is not about racial tension in the South. In fact, there aren't really any white characters in the all black self-sufficient town. With that out of the way, we see the characters not as "Black People," but as human beings.
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