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A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

By Sapphire

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| Paperback | 9780679766759

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Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" (Newsday) is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformatContinue

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Saw the movie first; read the book second. The movie was heartwrenching, but definitely easier to watch than it was to read the book. The movie did a good job of showing only small doses of certain horrors like the rape, but the book is explicit and raw and incredibly sad. I can understand how it mi ... (continue)

Saw the movie first; read the book second. The movie was heartwrenching, but definitely easier to watch than it was to read the book. The movie did a good job of showing only small doses of certain horrors like the rape, but the book is explicit and raw and incredibly sad. I can understand how it might be hard for some to read a whole novel in Precious's broken English, but it felt so very real to me. I also liked the inclusion of the class "book" at the very end - so great to hear each girl's unique story. I liked it but wouldn't give it 4 stars because I don't know if I could ever happily recommend it to someone - it is just too hard to read. Not a pleasant story, but one that needs to be told.

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― kmccormi said on Nov 30, 2009 about the Audio Cassette edition | Add your feedback

I'm Not Surprised by Oprah's Endorsement but Tyler Perry's?

The book turned Sundance Film Favorite, is ideally and in essence a story that offers a good message about overcoming obstacles and rising above our circumstances and situations to achieve our goals and to become more than we're expected to be. However, you have to be able to stomach the narrators ... (continue)

The book turned Sundance Film Favorite, is ideally and in essence a story that offers a good message about overcoming obstacles and rising above our circumstances and situations to achieve our goals and to become more than we're expected to be. However, you have to be able to stomach the narrators awful grammar and spelling (Precious, the protagonist/narrator, is a 16-going-on-17 year-old who is illiterate amongst other things) in addition to the enumerable accounts of familial abuse of all sorts-physical, sexual, emotional, mental-at the hands of the narrator's biological parents.
It's just the kind of story that Oprah loves to shove in our faces and spend two episodes of her talk show (3 days on her radio broadcast) discussing with Gail and a handful of other individuals whose opinions only matter to Oprah's flock of housewife and non hetero male following.
I digress.
Like I said the message of the book is a good one that needs to be told, I'm just not sure I like the soap box the author stood on to shout it.

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― Nette said on Oct 25, 2009 about the Audio Cassette edition | Add your feedback

This kid had it rough I can't imagine being in his shoes. How can all kinds of bad stuff only occur to one person, it doesn't seem fair.

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― SheReads said on Mar 6, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback