118 reviews for:

The Ways of White Folks

Langston Hughes

4.43 AVERAGE

thesevisionsofjohanna's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

shelfindulgent_'s review against another edition

4.0

dark reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I was so glad to have read this classic by Langston Hughes. It has inspired me to dive into more classics in 2024. As if I needed any more reason to be angry with white people, this book gave me just that. These are not just stories to me. Someone can read this and think oh wow, what great writing (which is true), and how devastating these situations are (which is also true), but these are things that happened to Black people now and are still happening today. I would highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone. 

3camels's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

n0r_rie's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

astoldby_cece's review against another edition

4.0

emotional sad tense medium-paced

meredith_gayle's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

eva_v's review against another edition

4.0

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mrssjj's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

filmnoirz's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mike_c's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated