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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Start date: August 1, 2021

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Apr 24, 2008 Inder rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, 1001-books, read-2008, 20th-century, southeast

Don't quite know where to begin with this one. What a difficult, lovely puzzle of a book!

Their Eyes Were Watching God is a really vibrant novel, full of colorful characters and humor and life.

At the same time, a difficult book, documenting a difficult time in American history. It's all here - racism, patriarchy, domestic violence, Jim Crow laws, you name it. These oppressive systems are deeply internalized by the main characters.

Although Janie, Hurston's plucky mixed-race heroine hungers for fr ...more

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Jul 29, 2008 Barbara rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook

This audiobook read by Ruby Dee is among the top 5 best audiobooks I've experienced. I listened to it on cassettes about 15 years ago, one of the first audiobooks I tried. At the time, I was mesmerized, totally forgot that Ruby Dee was doing the performance and simply saw each character in my mind. When I discovered it recently on my library's shelves in cd format, I listened to it again, thinking that it couldn't have been as good as I remembered. Well, it is and maybe even more so. There is a ...more

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Feb 05, 2013 Dottie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013

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Aug 06, 2008 Jessica rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

""Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.""

""Love is lak de sea. It's a movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."" ...more

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