This book isn’t too good for itself.sometimes it gets too emotional, and the reader might feel uncomfortable. Anyway, the book is written spectacularly, fascenating and important story about a poor helpless black girl in an evil place trying to hold herself and her pretty baby from her terrifying childhood.

Although the character is charming and reliable, sometimes the story itself isn’t. It is too horrible to be true. You can be shocked when the father raves his wife and his 7 year old daughter at the same night. You feel sorry when also the mother abuses her child and attacks her for “taking” her man. But when Precious has her second baby, she runs away and suddenely we also find out her father died, and he was never married to her mother but to another woman (+2 kids) and he had hiv- you begin to feel that: hey, even in Harlem you can’t find so mentally illed people! enough is enough! what about the story?! it is too perfect!
correct is correct. No difficulties accour to the hero in the alternative school. All of a sudden she is so happy… you feel like the whole story is shouting: Go to this school! go! But hey, if all girls there were abused in the past, what would it tell about my kid?!

So, who is recommended to read this:
1. Teachers (I would very like someone like Miss. Rain to teach me)/
2. Those who attend to drop school- to know that you still got a chance… even if you have 2 kids in the age of 16.

This story is about two lonely married strangers finding different familiar friendship in each other. Their characters are quite oppusite and good, but the plot is not complicated enough. In this case you can just transform “nothing happens” into “it’s too much like life”...
On the other hand rare movies, even independent, deal with global alienation. If u are man of the world, and one day found yourself alone and only in a foreign country, you would like the movie and what it presents to you. On the other hand, if you like more “story” movies, and dislike sad people who do nothing with their lives, this movie might get u pretty bored.

I’m a deadly viewer, but still none of the movies i’ve seen was that bad: no characters, plot, humor and even nice scences to remember when the movie ends. My friend forced me to watch this swearing it was one of her favourite films. Well, after about 20 minutes i was already replying her to stop the movie to clean her entire house, but she wouldn’t agree. After about an hour of boring, stupid and discusting racial jokes i was almost about to break the dvd, but im good at holding myself. Can’t believe actually wasted 1.5 hour to watch it, but thank god it was over. Don’t watch it, maybe even imdb would forget about the entire film.

Although, if you ask me Cliton Collins jr. playing Perry Smith deserves an oscar.

Trust me, Ive read the so called novel in the original language. it is not really that bad, because the hero is an interesting character. But the writer simply scrued everything up. You can’t understand anything from the plot, the chracters or the message. Everything is so mixed up, the senteces are so long and the memories are so asociative… in something like chapter 3 you just throw the book away, givin’ up, screaming : “what da FUCK??!!”

I had to read it to perform my school project. Didn’t know it was so bad till I aactually read it. It was a turture. Ilana, by the way, is the main turturer. It is one of the books in which nothing happens, notthing makes you feel wonder. You just get bored of all the endless descriptions of feelings and metaphores by the characters. This world is defenitely a better place without “black box”