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A Reader posted a review at 2010-04-03 07:42:11.
(Language: English)
 
This would probably have been hard to read...but listening made me feel like I was at a playListened to this...far exceeded any expectations I had...Ruby Dee's narration really added to the deep south flavor and emotion. A real coming of age story...only much later in life! Would definitely recommend.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-01-06 09:29:37.
(Language: English)
Zora's was an anthropologist before she was a writer. Her book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is testimony to her education in anthropology. She portrays the different social classes and different ethnic groups within the south. The story has charm and emotion as well as pain and romance. Not only is this a work dealing African American culture and empowerment , but it is also a feminist work about the freeing of an African American Woman from the social bonds within her own culture. Her grandmother says to her that they are the "mules of the world". Jannie, the main character, changes this and redifines herself as a woman, and african american and a human being.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-12-01 01:47:17.
(Language: English)
Very good book. A little hard to read at first as it's written in Southern dialect from the 20's. Great story about a woman's journey to find her inner peace.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-11-07 11:50:56.
(Language: English)
I was reading this book for school so I didn't get the full chance of enjoying it, but that said, it was a pretty good read : especially for a school book.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-10-29 01:52:48.
(Language: English)
Once you have managed to grasp the dialect it becomes a fantastic read. A gentle, yet incredibly powerful, story.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-10-28 09:01:07.
(Language: English)
Easy to read, romantic, and satisfying.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-11-14 01:05:10.
(Language: English)
A great book that reminded me of the stories my grandmother and other older women in my family would tell.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-10-25 07:39:11.
(Language: English)
This was my favorite book I read in high school. It was really really good.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-09-06 06:09:54.
(Language: English)
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-09-08 07:38:08.
(Language: English)
A good book, but written in dialect and a bit difficult to read at first.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-06-28 08:21:36.
(Language: English)
I thought this book was really good. Zora has a way of making the important stuff stand out and makes you realize what Janie had to go through to get to where she wanted to be in life. Its a rad book. One you don\'t want to miss... I thought this book was AMAZING!!! I loved it! Zora has a way of pulling you into the book and making you see things from a different angel. It tells the story of Janie, growing up into a woman and telling her own story back to her best friend and you get the chance to hear it and read it yourself.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-03-18 06:01:21.
(Language: English)
I was intrigued by this book when I read the inside cover at the bookstore. When I began reading it, I was drawn in to Janie's story, and Hurston's writing style. Her Southern style has a lyrical quality to it, and I find I have to really take my time to reflect on the dialogue, which make the story more satisfying. My "on deck" books are two more Hurston titles "Jonah's Gourd Vine" and "Moses Man of the Mountain."
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-09-11 12:37:47.
(Language: English)
Poetry. Absolute poetry.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-29 11:04:44.
(Language: English)
This is a novel for the ages. Not only is it a wonderful story of self exploration and growth, but Hurston use of figurative language and symbolism is second to none. Her juxtaposition of "vernacular" with that of the narrator is almost breathe taking at times. I use this novel in my literature classes to show students that strong figurative language enhances writing, and makes a novel worth reading again and again. You will never look at a road the same way again.
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Theresa posted a review at 2009-08-25 09:26:09.
(Language: English)
With dialog written in the Southern African-American dialect of the 1930s, this novel can be a bit daunting to the modern reader. As an important piece of 20th-century American literature, it is nonetheless, a very worthwhile literary endeavor, capturing the self-discovery of Janie Crawford -- an independent, positively spirited woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness and fear.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-07-16 05:01:06.
(Language: English)
High School Read
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-07-14 12:41:06.
(Language: English)
I know I am supposed to love this b/it is a modern lit classic but I just didn't totally warm up to it...yes...she was content in the end but i found the language hard to read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-10-27 12:12:33.
(Language: English)
Hurston's way with words is breathtaking...even through the dialect and colloquial language. "...love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore." <3
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-07-14 09:01:22.
(Language: English)
THis is a good book on love, struggle and racial/gender issues. Difficult dialect. Worth a read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-25 03:46:53.
(Language: English)
Chronicles the life of a young black woman born after slavery but in a time of great racism. Follows here journey to find love and the struggles she must endure or overcome as a beautiful black woman. A great work of black Americana and an amazing love story.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-25 11:01:39.
(Language: English)
I fell in love with Zora Neale Hurston's writing when I first read this novel as a senior in high school. After reading every piece of work of hers that I can get my hands on, I must say, I am still in love.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-05-17 04:07:09.
(Language: English)
Fell in love with this book and the literature is simply fantastic...highly recommended for a must read!
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-04-07 04:21:58.
(Language: English)
A difficult read for the use of language but a good story
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-20 03:14:16.
(Language: English)
Hurston amazingly so creates a world in the Post-Reconstruction South that is not only dynamically and effortlessly real but is also translated into a dialect that can be only found in that time and place. Names such as Tea Cake and Jody Smith are just parts to the adventurously feeble climb of Janie out of the hold of a deep and historic past and into a frightening yet bold future.
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