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** spoiler alert ** Push is the painfully graphic story of a battered child named Precious Jones. Precious Jones is sixteen years old, lives in Harlem, New York with her mother, who is an overweight shut-in. Everyone who knows Claireece calls her Precious. Claireece Jones decides to call herself Precious when she is young because she believes the meaning of the word, Precious, will make her father stop sexually abusing her. As a young child Precious is like a slave in her own home. She spends her time cooking for her mother and fantasizing unrealistically about a glamorous life. While she’s cooking and cleaning her mother, Mary, sits and watches the television. Mary receives a welfare check and food stamps. She is regularly beaten and ordered around by her jealous, reclusive mother. Her mother repeatedly tells her how stupid and worthless she is while other kids taunt her for her obesity. Her mother is jealous that her husband shows their daughter attention that she sees as being rightfully hers. She has become hardened and heartless, lacking education and social skills. Her father, Carl, is a rotating figure in her life. He does not live with the family and only stops by when he wants to have sex with Precious. He starts having sex with Precious when she was three. Her mother is right next to them the first time he has sex with Precious. She does not do anything about it. When she was twelve she left school to give birth to her first child named Little Mongo, who was born with Down's Syndrome, "short for Mongoloid Down Sinder, which is what she is; sometimes what I feel I is. I feel so stupid sometimes. So ugly, worth nuffin." Little Mongo lives with her grandmother. The baby is her father's child. Precious says he has been raping her since she was in second grade. Carl leaves for years after he finds out about Little Mongo. Her mother and father sexually abuses her. “I always did like school, jus’ seem school never did like me”. When Precious was in the second grade she was held back because she couldn’t read and peed on herself. She would come to school and sit in the class everyday. At school she would always be made fun of; her peers would call her fat and stupid. She would sit in the back of the class and stops talking to everyone. She should be a junior in high school, but is only in ninth grade. She likes Mr. Wicher even though she yelled at him on the first day of school. Sitting in Mr. Wicher’s math class Precious calls him a motherf**ker when he tells her to turn to page 122 because she doesn’t know how to read. She has remained completely illiterate. At the age of sixteen she becomes pregnant again with her fathers child. On January 15, 1988, Precious has her son, Abdul Jamal Louis Jones. Abdul means servant of God and Louis is for Farrakhan. Precious says her name means something valuable, but Claireece is someone else's name. Precious tells the social worker that Little Mongo does not live with her so Mary gets kicked off aid. All Precious thinks about in the hospital is school. She doesn't let anyone know she had a birthday in November. She is not sure how she feels about the baby. She thinks he is pretty, but knows he is a product of rape. Her life seems set to repeat the self-destructive pattern of her mother's, until her principal sends her to an alternative reading class where, with the help of a dedicated teacher and fellow students who have undergone experiences as harrowing as her own, she begins an intoxicating discovery of words, friendship, and, in the process, herself. Precious comes under the experimental pedagogy of a lesbian miracle worker named, implausibly enough, Blue Rain. Under her angelic mentorship, Precious, who has never before experienced real nurturing, learns to voice her long suppressed feelings in a journal. As her language skills improve, she finds sustenance in writing poetry, in friendships and in support groups-one for "insect" survivors and one for HIV-positive teens. Precious writes to Ms. Rain while she is in the hospital. She talks about being raped by Carl. Ms. Ran tells her to remember to put the date on her journals. Precious says she only feels bad because she has been diagnosed with HIV. Push finishes with the class book, which includes the students' life stories. Precious opens with two poems called "everi mornin" and "mornin". In "everi mornin" she compares herself to the fictional Mary who had a little lamb. Precious says AIDS and a baby followed her to school instead of a lamb. The second poem is about doing good things for her Abdul and then leaving him in another woman's arms when she goes to school. She also refers to the small pieces of grass she sees in local parks as "green diamonds," indicating that she does see some beauty in an otherwise dark world. I think that the book Push was an overall good book.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
I will give this book 2 stars only because of the writing otherwise it would be 1. I don't like romance books *sigh*
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ngô Tất Tố
loved the art!
The Civil War in Southeast Missouri.
its the story of this woman and how her husband died. sort of show's her grieving process. pretty good.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Pack Myoung Sig
Victor Hugo's ingenius, epic novel of the poor and disenfranchised of the new republic of France, centering on the plight of escaped convict Jean Valjean, imprisoned for stealing bread, and the efforts of the tenacious policeman who is hellbent to recapture him. A dense, but gripping and unsettling novel detailing those who, driven by desperate measures of hunger and poverty, go to great lengths, sometimes unlawfully and duplicitously, to assuage their hunger and/or dire situation, if only momentarily. An amazing and astounding novel highly recommended!
I don't know a lot about Talleyrand or the French Revolution but I enjoyed this book very much. The author creates Talleyrand's character from early childhood on and gives glimpses of French culture, information about Napoleon and the politics of the time and is generally fun to read. No moral judgements about Talleyrand are made by the author. It's a short read at 224 pages.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Quách Vĩ Kiện
Reviewed at JudgingCovers.co.uk As embarrassing as it is, I’ve always quite liked reality television. If it involves a group of weirdos desperately clinging to their 15 minutes of fame, it’s likely that I’ll be hooked… so when I stumbled upon The Hating Game, a book based around a reality TV show, I couldn’t resist. The story centres around Mattie Johns, a shrewd business woman who is having a bit of a crisis. Her recruitment company is failing and she’s facing bankruptcy – all thanks to her cheating ex, Kyle, who stole most of her clients when he started his own business after their split. When Mattie is approached by an ambitious TV producer with an idea for a reality show – one with a £200,000 prize – it seems to be her last hope to save her business. She thinks it’s just a simple dating show: go on four dates, let viewers vote for their favourite guy, and then spend two weeks on holiday with the winner. If she can last the two weeks, the money’s hers. But there’s a twist. The men are all her ex-boyfriends. I’m sure many of you would rather stick pins in your eyes than spend two weeks with your ex… It is made very clear throughout the book that Mattie has trust issues. Her father left when she was very young, and so her mother has instilled in her the idea that she should never rely on a man. She’s spent years dating men that meant nothing to her – Kyle was the only one that she ever really fell for, and he broke her heart – but Talli Roland has written Mattie’s character in such a way that I found her quite hard to sympathise with. To be blunt, she’s a bit of a cow. She may be ‘independent’, but she treats people badly, and her moaning about how she doesn’t need a man gets very irritating. At various points in the story I wanted to give her a good shake and tell her to get over herself. Thankfully, The Hating Game is written in the third person, so we experience a lot of different viewpoints. I’m not sure I could have handled Mattie’s attitude if I’d had to suffer her first-person narrative. Roland explores the thoughts and actions of all the exes, the production team behind the show, and Mattie’s best (and seemingly only) friend, Jess – all fairly one dimensional characters, but they do work well to create an easy, readable story. Roland goes into a lot of detail about the making of the TV show, and seeing the ‘backstage’ antics is a real selling point for the book. The producers are extremely manipulative, pushing the word ‘reality’ to its limits, which initially makes great reading. But then comes my biggest complaint: it all went a bit too far. The plot reaches a point where it crosses the line from dramatic to unrealistic. While I’m sure there are people in the television industry that push the boundaries when it comes to ethics, The Hating Game became very hard to believe towards the end of the story. On one level this is pretty average chick lit, with one of those storylines where you know exactly who the protagonist should end up with from the start. But the reality TV aspect, even at its more unbelievable moments, does give The Hating Game a bit of an edge. If you wasted years in front of Big Brother, give it a go – even with its flaws, The Hating Game is still more entertaining than watching a house full of ‘eccentrics’ draw up a shopping list.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Tiến Thành
I really enjoyed this book, it reminded me of a mix between The Hunger Games and The Giver. It seems like there have been a lot of books coming out lately that are about societies trying to control their citizens and this one while somewhat generic is pretty good. The main character Cassia is really strong and brave. If you enjoy reading books about adventure, coming of age, and that carry a message for all readers this book is for you.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thanh Khâu
If you can look past the cynicism towards Christianity (and organized religion in general), and if you can isolate which claims are true and which are ridiculous, then you'll love this book! John and i listened to this book on CD during our road trip and it made the time fly by. We totally fell for the bait and thought the wrong person was guilty the whole time. Very tricky ending.
Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.