Rating: 
Summary: Outstanding book...
Review: In my quest to read more classics, I picked up THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD based on a list of 'have to read classics'. What a great book - I can see why this is a 'must read' book. The story centers around the life of Janie - her life growing up and her search for true love. The story is beautifully written - wonderful descriptions! It took me several pages to get used to the southern dialect of that time - but it is so necessary to help tell the story and draws you in. As Janie's life unfolds, you begin to feel a part of the story - I cried twice! It a great book - I highly recommend it!
Rating:
Summary: A classic of American literature
Review: This eloquent prose, written in 1937, is certainly remarkable for its time and still wows audiences today. It's an amazing story of love, loss, and the determination to fulfill a life. The plot twists and resolution will surely surprise, the protagonist's character is deeply insightful, and the manner in which the story is told is utterly compelling. While the story lacks in realism, the emotional struggle of the characters is uncomfortably sobering with rich lessons for us all.
Rating:
Summary: Eloquently Penned Prose
Review: This novel is one of the greatest depictions of historical fiction. It is written is such a way that it gives you a vivid picture of the people of that time. The added dialect provides you with the opportunity to explore the novel in 'their' voices. After two failed marriages, Janie follows her heart and find love and life in Tea Cake. Although they are opposite in character, this couldn't have been a more perfect couple. This story is beautifully written and I recommend it to readers of all walks of life.
Rating:
Summary: Our Eyes Were Watching Hurston
Review: Seven weeks is the reported time that it took to write this novel. Some would argue that accomplishment alone could justify its classic status. However I assure you that tidbit of information is more of an extra piece cake in the seven course feast of "Their Eyes Were Watching God." Zora Neal Hurston, a renown author and anthropologist, wrote this book in 1937 and included all of her knowledge of Southern heritage, the influence of her travels, and her experience living as a woman. Hurston molds a tale of a journey that far too many African Americans have seen or heard in their lifetime or through the oral tales of their family. Our protagonist, Janie, sits and shares with her Friend Phoeby a remarkable story of life and growth. She bares her soul like as if, what one author wrote, "there is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you." She explained in painstaking detail how at the direction of her grandmother her life followed a path she would have never chosen herself albeit she most undoubtedly would never change. She began her journey bound by the expectation of others and ends it with her own personal freedom; freedom of heart, body, and soul. This book is vividly written and has captured the essence of the people in those places at that time. Ms. Hurston painted a picture and added sound with dialect. She made you feel as if Janie were telling the story directly to you rather than Phoeby. Through Janie's reflections this reader concluded that just about the whole time her eyes were in fact watching God as he guided her through all aspects of life allowing her to remain a victor under horrible circumstances and learning to be content in her on skin. Our book club highly recommends this book. However to get its' full impact its best to have someone to discuss it with while or after you read it.
Rating:
Summary: Hurston belongs with Faulkner and Morrison
Review: This book is one of the greatest depictions of the South in Florida, and certainly one of the greatest works set in Florida. This book is part history (the founding and growth of Eatonville, Florida), but mostly a social analysis and a look into the turbulent life on an extraordinary women. Fellow atheists, do not let the title put you off; this is not a book deeply set in Christian values and belief, but I won't give away where the title comes from--it is a dramatic moment to be cherished. A must read.
Rating:
Summary: Fabulous love story, beautifully written
Review: This is now one of my two favorite love stories (The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks being the other). The style and grace of Ms. Hurston's words evokes the very essense of our sense of love, imperfection, and miracles. This is a must read for anyone. Try it on tape, as read by Rudy Dee, and delight even more as the picturesque language is perfected by Ms. Dee. It was like listening to a Tony-winning play while envisioning these full characters and dynamic emotions.
Rating:
Summary: A Must.....
Review: This book is a "must read",for any women that has ever lived and loved or ever lived. This book should be recommended reading for any women on the brink of womenhood.
Rating: 
Summary: Their eyes were watching God Review
Review: This book shows how a African American woman finds her true identity and overcomes the prjudice and racial profiling of the majority community.This book should be read by everyone because it will show you how bad the majority was to the minority and how everyone should be treated reguardless of color of skin color.I liked the book because it showed me how bad these people were treated and how she overcame this by having a positive outlook on life and had an independent mind.If you like this book I would also recommend adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
Rating:
Summary: Love and Pain
Review: Zora Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" is an amazing heartfelt novel about a young black women attempting to find her herself growing up in the Deep South. Hurston. This novel captures the universal experiences of pain and happiness, love and loss. The novel is an interesting, and slightly atypical portrayal of black community as seen at the time of the Harlem Renaissance. This book is about Janie's journey to find herself and to discover that the only thing that is truly important is to find out what life is for yourself.
The novel showed the oppression from racism, and also the hardships from sexism at the same time. The emotions in this book run deep and are extremely intense, forcing the reader to care for these people, for what they are, and see their struggles as worthy of respect. In a nutshell, this novel tells the life a Negro woman trying to live a happy life through difficult times. This local color reveals the struggle that women have because they are women and especially because they are black. This combination presents many obstacles for Janie as well as for African American women today.
"Their eyes as a novel did for literature what the minstrel shows did for the theater, that is, to make white folks laugh". After reading this statement by Richard Wright I came to expect all African-American fiction to focus, at least partially, on exposing and protesting racism. This was and is a worthy cause, but, I must confess, it makes reading more laborious. Surely, I thought, there was more to the pre-civil rights black story than simply fighting against the injustices of whitey.
Rating:
Summary: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Review: This book speaks to the heart of all women and Tea Cake gives men a few pointers on romance and what love is all about. It absolutely should not be read as a simple love story, as it is a story about a woman, Janie, finding her voice and developing an authentic sense of self in a male dominated world.
| 
