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Brilliant. My first Hurston book. How can that be, with an education in English lit? Bah humbug to the professors who left her off their reading lists. This is some of the most remarkable and inventive prose I've ever read. While it took me a very long time to slow down enough to take in the dialog, which is in historic black vernacular, I grew to appreciate it.
But it's the narrative that totally awed me. The opening line:
"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, th ...more
But it's the narrative that totally awed me. The opening line:
"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, th ...more
I loved this book. This was my first book that I read that used the different styles of language and literary devices that Hurston included. I believe the book exemplifies what it means to be a black woman in a black society.
Classic story, and a sad but sweet ending. I feel something more was missing, don't remember much from the movie, but I think the movie would be better!
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Jun 12, 2013
Brandi Wamsley
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Beautiful and bittersweet book. It takes a while to get started and follow the language and narration style, but once you get into it the book takes you on a journey of life. It takes you through a wide range of emotions and in the end brings a tear to your eye.
This book was a classic and everyone should read it.
Feb 08, 2019
Quimby
marked it as to-read
