Interesting. Would recommend to anyone to read.

The language in this book could be equated with something like Deep Throat or any pornographic literature. This is not about reality, but about distorting the minds of minor children! This was one of the most shocking, disturbing books I have ever encountered. (It was read to attest to the decadence and loss of purpose of our librarians and teachers.) Yet, books like this are specifically available to minor children in libraries and school libraries all over the US. Instead of Fennimore Cooper, Hawthorn, Stevenson, Defoe, Burn, Forbes, Sewell, Alcott, Hugo, Austen, Homer, or Plutarch, they are now encouraged to read such trash as Choke, Doing It, Rainbow Boys, and Annie on My Mind. Like Push, these books are full of the most vulgar language and extremely explicit sexual descriptions; let us not even discuss their low, basically inexistent literary value! This alone should disqualify books such as Push to the consumption of minor children, yet, librarians, the American Library Association and teachers are forcing them upon our youth. Wonder why kids are so ignorant of history and good literature? Talk to any teacher and librarian and you will find the source. A few libraries (Fairport, Shaker Main, SHAKER/Bertram Woods Branch, and WICKLIFFE Main) have this title in their Teen area! "Precious" was the RATED R movie based upon this book. No one single library has it in their Teen area!

Don't understand the hype. Books with the same message have been written better, and in a more productive, appropriate way.

I didn't enjoy it at all. I thought it would be good based on the comments, but it's just unnecessarily graphic...

Strong language and graphic details but is an unkind reality for some.

Disturbing, graphic but a great read none the less. Havent seen the movie, prefer to read the books first. Worth a read although may be hard for people who had a hard upbringing themselves....

It's debatable whether the novel Push is really about the triumph of the human spirit or about the ultimate darkness of the human heart. Are the victories in the book meant to be applauded or taken in absurdity when compared to the monstrous life that Precious Jones has been handed? Regardless of how you tend to view the glass, regardless of the misspellings and poor grammar (which can annoy, and they do), there is no doubt that in Precious Jones, Sapphire has created a protagonist whose story and voice will stay with you long after the book is over. Just bear in mind that the book has been tagged as being "Incest Fiction". You have been warned. This book does not just lay it on, it drops it on you like a ton of bricks.

Great read although the subject matter is quite disturbing and shocking. However the character Precious is very inspirational as any person who could survive such a childhood could be nothing else. I also recently watched the movie and although it was quite true to the book i found the book so much better.

i think the book might of been a good book if i would have waited a few years to read it because its too graphic for my brain at my age

A poignant novel about a monstrously abused little girl who cannot set any academic, career, or personal goals – her only objective is to survive. A much needed insight into what it must be like to be raised in a world of almost total hopelessness and despair.