I don't know if it's because this isn't my preferred style of poetry or what but I didn't like this book. The formatting was a little confusing. It was like my first experience reading Shakespeare: I read this dialect, knowing it's meant to be performed, but I had difficulty envisioning it. Was it the dialect? No. I understood it. Something about the book was a little scattered and all over the place, but there were parts that told an obvious story and parts that stuck out as meaningful to me.

Honestly, I read this because it was given to me as a gift. I had no interest it it nor in the movie adaption.

I will say that I think the movie did a good job of sorting out the confusion of this choreopoem...

(And I don't like Tyler Perry...)