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Summary: A GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
Review: This is one of the finest novels ever written. It is rich and textured and beautiful. The story is big and relevent to every life. It should be widely read.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: Language junkies who love seeing what a very talented writer can do with words will LOVE this book. Also, a great commentary on being a woman in the South, and on being an African American woman in the South. Anyone who aspires to be well read should add this to her list.
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Summary: This was one of the most enjoyable books that I have read.
Review: I began this book very slowly because of the dialect in which the characters spoke. Pretty soon not only did I understand the dialect but reading it outloud was a joy. Hurston writes this book as if she were writing lyrics to music. I was sad when the book was finished and wanted to read it again. I don't know when I have enjoyed an experience like reading this book.
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Summary: It's an OK book
Review: This is a good book. If you have nothing else to do except sit on the couch all day watching t.v., then you should read it. But otherwise, it's not worth it. Especially when you've got Grapes of Wrath to read and study for the SAT's.
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Summary: Just okay--what's the big deal?
Review: I'll preface this by saying that I may be off base in my judgement of this book (and I invite others to agree or disagree with me), but I really don't understand the hooplas of praise it has garnered since it's reissue twenty years ago.While I agree that Hurston's prose style is lyrical and easy-to-read and her use of dialect quite effective, I have a problem with the novel's main character -- Janie. Are we supposed to look up to her as a paragon of oppressed African-American womanhood? I understand that she's abused (in essence) by her first two husbands, but Tea Cake doesn't strike me as any better yet she loves him above the others even though he most directly physically abuses her. I also found the climactic scenes of the novel rather sensationalized. What are we supposed to make of Janie? She doesn't seem to develop at all through the course of the novel. Maybe I just don't relate?
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Summary: A beautiful story that transcends race and time.
Review: The dialogue may be tough at first but it captures a people and a time. It is certainly worth the effort. As a reader with varying taste and a voracious appetite for books, this is THE perfect little masterpiece and the book I most often recommend. Stick with the book--the story is so powerful it might change your life forever.
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Summary: a twentieth century masterpiece...
Review: Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' is an incredible work by a largely unappreciated author in her time. This book is a wonderful testimony of black american life in the 1930's as told through the eyes of a beautifully written heroine who finds herself in love with a much younger man. Definitely recommended.
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Summary: HUH?
Review: I didn't even finish the book because the slang dialogue was too complex. I hate when authors fill so many pages with slang because sometimes it makes it way too hard to understand or keep one's attention.
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Summary: not for me
Review: terribly overrated. boring. does not hold together. don't believe that this is now required in schools.
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Summary: I wish I was more like Janie.
Review: I had to read this book for my high school English class. I absolutely loved it. I couldn't put this book down. I had to find out what happened to Janie. After reading it I realized I wanted to be more like Janie. This book was great.
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