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Push
#8563449 - 06/25/08 04:57 PM (15 years, 7 months ago) |
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Anybody read push? What did you think? to tell ya the truth i was kinda disturbed by it.
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Re: Push [Re: sui]
#8563462 - 06/25/08 05:01 PM (15 years, 7 months ago) |
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who wrote it and what is it about?
If its disturbing im game. Been looking for a new book actually.
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Quote:
Like a starker, black urban version of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Push is the painfully graphic story of a battered child named Precious Jones, who bears her father's babies first at 12 and again at 16. Suffering abuse by both parents and serving as a virtual slave to her apartment-bound, welfare-dependent mother, Precious lives in hopeless isolation in Harlem, until she enters an alternative school where she meets other troubled girls and, cheered on by a devoted teacher, learns to write.
Written in the fractured vernacular of this subliterate teenager, Push — the poet Sapphire's debut novel — is only partially successful: Precious' phonetic dialect and stunted vocabulary inevitably flatten segments of her story. Such limitations stand out when Precious, who calls her mother ''muver'' and refers to Down syndrome as ''Down Sinder,'' breaks out of character to make grown-up observations — for example, that crack addicts ''give the race a bad name.''
Nonetheless, Precious' hard-luck story sings with poetic beauty and resonates with ugly truth. ''I'm alive inside,'' she writes after attending a meeting of incest survivors, whose confessions are a balm to her shame. ''A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning.''
It's thrilling to see Precious test the wings of her newfound verbal powers, funny to decode her botched locutions (like ''insect'' survivors), and sad to watch her revert to frustrated illiteracy when, after progressing by leaps and bounds, she's thrown a tragic, unexpected curveball. Ultimately, however, Precious gains control of her life through writing (''the boat [that] carry you to the other side'') and finds her heroes (Langston Hughes and Alice Walker among them) through books. Push is an imperfect novel — the ending is lackluster and the dialect is iffy — but its affecting combination of childlike tenderness and adult rage leaves little doubt that Sapphire's talents as a poet translate artfully into her fiction. B+ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,293209,00.html
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Re: Push [Re: sui]
#8564342 - 06/25/08 09:00 PM (15 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hmm.. yeah I don't think I would find that entertaining.
Right now I'm reading a book called "Perv A Love Story" by Jerry Stahl. Its awesome. You should check it out.
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it wasnt exacly a fun book to read, laska had to stop a couple times cause it was just too graphic at parts.
makes me sad to think that there are people like that.
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Re: Push [Re: sui]
#8564390 - 06/25/08 09:10 PM (15 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah, I doubt I would even finish a book like that. Sounds insane.
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Re: Push [Re: sui]
#8567696 - 06/26/08 04:51 PM (15 years, 7 months ago) |
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I liked it, I wouldn't read it again. But I'm glad I read it. Makes me realize again how good I have it and how important it is to protect your children from the soul killing evil that people are sometimes.
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Re: Push [Re: sui]
#8567730 - 06/26/08 04:57 PM (15 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah, doesn't seem to be my type of book, but who knows.
I'm reading Naked Lunch at the moment.. it's mind-warping.
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Re: Push [Re: laska]
#8567736 - 06/26/08 04:58 PM (15 years, 7 months ago) |
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im a holden caulfield when it comes to child abuse. i cant stand it and i dont think i could bare reading a book about it.
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Re: Push [Re: Brugman]
#8567747 - 06/26/08 05:01 PM (15 years, 7 months ago) |
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I have a copy of Naked Lunch, its awesome!
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yeah it disgusts me to the point of vomiting. I had to take breaks in between the book, when it got too graphic or i would have literally throw up in my living room.
I wouldn't recommend it for its groteque graphic nature, but i would recommend it for it's inspirational story of education.
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