Helpful Score: 7
This is one of my all-time life favorites. It is very beautifully, and descriptively, written. I have written notes in the margins and underlined wonderful passages and shared them with my best friend, who did the same in my book when SHE read it -- This is a must read!
Don't judge this book by the movie. It did NOT do this book justice. It is more the WRITING that is wonderful rather than the story in itself, although the story is good. For example, something that sticks in my mind is when she described the passing of the year as something like this: It was a green time, then an orange time, and a white time and then a green time again.... written much more beautifully than I wrote it, but I remember that the words were so creative and descriptive. You could smell the scent of the dirt roads, and hear the hurricane's winds. Read it!
Don't judge this book by the movie. It did NOT do this book justice. It is more the WRITING that is wonderful rather than the story in itself, although the story is good. For example, something that sticks in my mind is when she described the passing of the year as something like this: It was a green time, then an orange time, and a white time and then a green time again.... written much more beautifully than I wrote it, but I remember that the words were so creative and descriptive. You could smell the scent of the dirt roads, and hear the hurricane's winds. Read it!
Helpful Score: 5
I loved this book! It was written several decades ago but the author's voice is contemporary and very sensual. I could almost smell the flowers, feel the sunshine, etc. I'd like to read others by her.
Helpful Score: 1
Beautifully written, to be read with the heart. I loved it.
Beautifully written story about early 20th century African-American feminist.
Great Book
Jamie A. (jamiesueaustin) -
Hurston's use of metaphor and symbolism is exquisite. Her ability to mold words into images is second to none. Even if it were not for the powerful story of Janie Crawford, the book would be an excellent work of poetic prose. Adding Janie's struggle for self-discovery just makes the novel all the more better.
A Classic. AND a good read.
Ah trahed tah red dis book, ah rillah did trah. But ah jes cood nawt mayn-tayn mah consen-trayshun bicos uv dah way dat de author wrote dah dialeck. It wus jes too distrak-tin'. Ah had ta red da dialog ober an ober so's ah cood unnahstan' it, an' it wus jes too confoo-sin'. It gon disrupted dah flow uv dah text. So's ah be gibbin up.
