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Summary: IT WAS AWEFUL!
Review: This book was so bad I don't know why i am bothering to write this review. I think that the whole plot was bad and unclear. The southern dialect did not work and made for awkward reading. I am not one to critisize books easily but it was not even worth my time to finish. It never grabbed my attention and it was dull!
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Summary: This novel was an experience in the life of another woman.
Review: It was very surprising. I enjoyed how I "became the reader. It was different than most books I have read. I would never had read it if not for my English class. I liked the way the many different symbols were used, but I disliked the stereotypes of the black characters. I realy felt like I was being labeled a racist for something I had no part in, but otherise it was a nice book.
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Summary: "There is no more important book to me than this."
Review: My one-line summary is not original. It was written about "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Alice Walker. I found Zora Neale Hurston while I was in graduate school. I have all of her books, but this one is so very special to me. I never understood all the clamour over "The Color Purple." Hurston did a better job of getting to the essence of the matter....Why hasn't she become a celebrity? Why did she die in poverty? Why did Alice Walker have to purchase a marker for Hurston's grave? It just doesn't make sense to me...someone this good should be praised in the media, touted by critics and taught in our schools. For my part, I have persuaded my English teacher spouse to assign some Hurston (chapters from her autobiography, etc) to his high school seniors. And, here's the surprising part....some of them actually get it! Read this book. You'll be glad you did.
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Summary: This was a wonderful book, I highly recommend it.
Review: This book contained everything, humor, sadness, adventure, tragedy, and love. I just loved the love affair of Janie and TeaCake.
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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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