Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Summary: A literary voice than should live on and on...
Review: This Hurston novel is by far her best. The heroine of this tale, although sometimes tragic and sad is also emotionally powerful. Hurston delivers a griping story filled with lyrical prose and compelling drama. Written in the African American vernacular of the time, Hurston's novel rings with authenticity and beauty. The heroine moves through this novel in search of love and the companionship of a man who can truly love her. By the conclusion of "Their Eyes" she realizes that her life is hers and that no man, no matter how true can bring her happiness until she allows it to be brought to her. Brilliant!

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Summary: required reading
Review: This book was chosen for our book club selection. I was unmoved until the second chapter and her discription of the pear trees. The book is full of unexpected turns and provides a fresh outlook on many things that are taken for granted today.

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Summary: Great book, but over analyzed.
Review: I was required to read this book for a High School English course. Once I got past the slow start, I found it to be a very interesting book and I no longer had to force myself to read it. Unfortunately, my English teacher required numerous projects, analyses, reaction papers, and essays picking apart every little piece of the story. Now I (and most of my classmates) are sick of a book we once found interesting. I really liked the book, but my English teacher ruined it for me.

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Summary: Ignore the rating and read the review
Review: I never cry at books. I've been known to cry at the occasional movie (My Girl, Phenomenon, Beaches), but that's because it's right in front of you in living color, you can see the tears trickling down the faces of the people on screen. My mother bought Their Eyes Were Watching God for me one day and shoved it at me, saying read this, it's good and it's politically correct. I am a great fan of banned books, a great many of them are reviewed favorably by me, so I was a little mad at her insistence. But I read it. Over three days, late at night, when I was supposed to be asleep or studying, I read it. When I finally got to the end at 2:00 one night, I broke down and cried. This book disturbed me and upset me more than any other ever has, and the next morning I told her she could keep Their Eyes for herself, I didn't ever want to read it again. It was wonderful, I'll admit that, at times it made me want to jump for joy and cry my happiness into the wind, but I just can't read that book again knowing that ending is coming.

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Summary: Beautiful testament of American life
Review: This book was one of my favorites ever. I was required to read it for my High school English Class, and soon I could not stop. My only critizism is that the book started off slowly and vaguely. But this book, the life of Janie Crawford, encompasses the American Dream like no other book I have ever read. Her tale of searching for true love is so classic, yet never told in this way before. I give it my highest reccomendation.

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Summary: Absolutly Mesmerizing
Review: I thought this was one of the best books I have ever read. It was terrific. I would recommend this book to many people. The end was fantastic, and it reaches into the depths of your heart. It was a very deep and heart-filled story. I thought it was great.

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Summary: Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...and her name is Zora
Review: With breathtaking and insightful elegance, Hurston conveys the simplicity and complexity of a world now gone by. Her use of voice and poetic imagery is extraordinary -- and frequently misunderstood by the "simple" page-turning reader. This book must be read. Twice. Its power is surprising.

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Summary: Terrible
Review: After reading this book, I felt as if my intellectual freedom had been ground under by the iron boot of PC liberal thuggery. It's a sad, sad day for literature when a book like this can actually be required reading in schools. It lacked form, character development, and grammatical elegance. Most of all, it attempted to beat the reader to death with the "plight" of the author.

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Summary: Definitely from a higher power . . .
Review: In "Their Eyes Were Watching God," Hurston uses a blend of colloquialism and conversational writing to create an unexpectedly crisp and believable story. The tale of one woman's life is so simple yet so complicated and riddled with suffering that and reader would identify with her. This story does not get the respect and widespread acclaim that it deseres. read it, pass it to a friend. You'll gain something from it.

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Summary: Their Eyes Were Watching God was a great book.
Review: Their Eyes Were Watching God, by famed African American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The book about the life, loves, and maturing of a woman, Janie, iis superb.

Though the book begins slow, and some areas seem vague and irrelevant, after completion you will just sit there and think about it. I thought for a while and the book was excellent.

Well written, topped off with southern dialect that makes the story all the more imaginable, Their Eyes Were Watching God was a powerful book that you will surely never forget, and be incredibly inspired by.