Precious

By: Sapphire

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary.

©2009 Sapphire (P)2009 Random House

Amazing

This is such a great book. No it wasn't deep and it wasn't long but it made its point very clear. The movie was good but the book is great. I felt like I was walking with Precious through all of her issues.

Could not have been better written or narrated

It's dark subject matter, but you can tell Sapphire has enormous empathy and respect for the girls like Precious she has taught and through her eyes, the listener can't help being won over.

The narrator was excellent - she gave Precious one of the most memorable voices I have heard. In fact, I don't think the story would have been nearly as fluid had I read it instead of listening to it.

The story and tone reminded me a little of A Patch Of Blue (Elizabeth Kata).

A sad glimpse into an inner city culture

The book was sad & at times horrifying. It's a glimpse into a completely different world then most of us even realize exists. It did leave me contemplating how our society offers no real solutions for a whole culture of people so I would say it was thought provoking and well read.

i loved it

great book i loved how they actually made her sound like she had such poor education. the narration was great.

Heartbreaking but Real

As unfortunate as it is, the matters discussed in this book exists out in the real world and it must be addressed. Running from having an open conversation about this doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, the right thing to do is shine a light and bring awareness and hope and that’s what this book has done.

Precious- a fictitious story of maybe a real life

I saw the movie, but the book really gives me the real horror of the Black ghetto and how education is a life raft.

Emotional Rollercoaster

It's hard to find the words that can describe the feelings brought about by this book. Anger doesn't seem to be quite right, nor does sadness. Precious is a product of her environment, which is a product of our society. Her tale is gut-wrenching and all too real.

After you've recovered from the horrors in this book, you want to jump up and take action against all the forces involved in creating the situation in which Precious lives.

This book is a must for everyone - especially educators and anyone else working with underprivileged and/or abused children.

Don't Get Hung up on the Raw Language

Wow, what a book. Get past the f-bombs and you will get caught up in this sad and inspirational story. A precious read!

Very engaging. A must download!

This is a very moving story of triumph over tragedy. If you download one audiobook this year, let this be the one.

An Extraordinary Life

This young lady is unique and extraordinary because all despicable behavior that humans can inflict, she experienced first hand. It took me awhile to listen to the book, because I could not stop crying. I thought my childhood was awful, this is the most awful case of child abuse,everyone has failed Precious. I am dumbfounded that Precious states in the last part of her book, "I don't hate no one". I really do not know if I could not hate after living thru abuse such as what she lived. She is truly a wonderful person.