Nette Female, 22, Single. San Bernardino, CA, USA

Very insightful and informative. Some of the stuff he said about men and their thought process we women kinda knew already but we either just flat out weren't sure we were right or we didn't want to admit/accept it.

For instance, what he says about men who either introduce the woman they're with as a friend or who don't bother to introduce them at all not feeling anything more than a physical attratcion for said woman has always been an unspoken fact in my mind--hell I even lived and experienced it.

Overall, its a fun read and it offers plenty of giggles if nothing else.

Good old Steve(n) Harvey...

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.