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Don't see the movie.

the book hasbeen on my shelf for nearly a decade.
One of my groups here is going to discuss it so I see that as an incentive to finally read it.

why not see the movie? is it bad? or is the subject matter too upsetting? (same reason I won't see The Lovely Bones. I do not need more visual images of a girl being violated.)

Maria wrote: "Don't see the movie."


Maria you're so brave. I keep feeling I should go see it but I just don't want to face that level of angst.

And G I don't want to see 'bones' either after reading the book.

Hi, Cyn! You know, I was terrified and resisted seeing it but was "forced" to by a good friend so I said okay. I went with trepidation because I do poorly with that sort of thing (should NEVER have seen Slumdog Mill but did not expect the level of violence, degredation, despair, etc., & while I think it was one of the best movies I've seen in a long while it took me weeks to stop dreaming about it & who needs that? By the way, I thought the ending with the Bollywood dancing was a real insult to Indians/viewers/the poor and indigent, etc. & I'm still annoyed at that) and take things personally. So here's the punch line: I found Precious well acted but trite and a big nothing, saccharinish at the end when it shouldn't have been; I'm not a real movie person, I guess & am impatient.

Cynthia & Quenby, as far as The Lovely Bones is concerned don't even get me started! Despised the book on so many levels I begin to sputter when I think about it, written so badly it should never have gotten past the first reader, an insult, I thought. I imagine the movie is more of the same -- what kind of a premise is that, anyway? Did you guys think the book was okay? I swear I don't think I'm being too mean.

Maria I liked the book but didn't love it BUT I can definately see your thoughts on what i thought was wrong with it. It was so caugt up in the supernatural that it ignored the horror of child rape and murder.

I loved Push because the character Precious is such a smart, observant, funny, sarcastic, strong voice in spite of the horrors she goes through.
And I agree with the message that a good teacher and good books can change a person's life.
As for the Lovely Bones, I liked it OK but I think the story wrapped itself up much too conveniently. It just wasn't believable, and coming from me that's a tough criticism. I love mystery, suspense, fantasy and the paranormal and I'm very willing to suspend my disbelief for a good story...but I have no tolerance at all for mediocre writing.
I won't see either movie. We have enough images of women and girls being brutalized already. I for one don't need to see more. I can take a lot of violence, exploding headds, rotting corpses, monsters, whatever...but torture, rape, child abuse, no thank you.

Exactly, Cyn and Quenby. Rather far beyond the bounds of taste, I thought. The book Push must be better than the lukewarm treatment it got as a movie and I'm sorry I didn't read it first.

I haven't read the book yet. I picked it up in the bookstore a while back, but the writing at the beginning kind of put me off. It was after my best friend and I had already gone to see the movie, though. I actually did like the movie, but I admit that we cried through a lot of it. I'm an emotional person and some of it was just too much for me to handle.

Yeah, I can handle all kinds of fictional horrors but child abuse and rape are generally not things I can read about or, even more so, watch on screen.

Q, I'm really glad you liked the book, but i know it would be way too much for me. We can get the message in other ways -- I've read the Brontes. Harper, I'm thinking Quenby's 5s may really mean a lot, I think - good luck with it.

Maria wrote: "Q, I'm really glad you liked the book, but i know it would be way too much for me. We can get the message in other ways -- I've read the Brontes. Harper, I'm thinking Quenby's 5s may really mean ..."

LOL..yeah, I have become pretty picky. The older I get the less tolerance I have for bad writing. I only give 5s to books I think are really brilliant and may likely want to read again.
And if a book isn't a 3 or 3.5, I give it between 50 and 100 pages and quit. Life is too short and there are too many good books out there to waste time on something I'm not enjoying.

We have to be picky. But because I'm sort of ocd and I never want to admit defeat, I'll either plow through and finish come what may or just never pick it up at all, and I avoid some authors like the plague.

Great review, G! I loved this book. The movie wasn't as hard to watch for me. I think if someone was abused perhaps the reenactment of the abuse and raw emotions would be hard to see on the big screen.

Beautiful review, Q!

Thanks Naomi!