:eek::eek: :eek: I loved that book, but I won't knock your hustle. Just sell it on 1/2.com :D

I still have not read or had time to read Gotham Diaries. Maybe tonight I will make a list of books to pick up from the free bookstore.

Loved, loved, loved Gotham Diaries. My book club mates disagreed with me.

I actually liked hot Johnny, but the constant time changes and how the women were related got confusing. I would never recommend a Colin Channer book. I can never get into any of his books and by the 3rd or 4th chapter it goes back on the shelf.

...just curious as to what you didn't like about it? plot, writing style? was it a diversion from Files' "style?"

I thought it was pretty good; just curious on another point of view.

*whispering, I bet she woulda liked it if Obama had been written into the storyline....* :p

I enjoyed Tastes Like Chicken. It was entertaining, as Lolita Files' books usually are, but it left a lot of unanswered questions. I'm thinking there will be a follow up soon.

I'm also confused by Mary Monroe's books. They start out great and end up in some strange, senseless place.

Yall stole all my books LOL

Leslie- ATROCIOUS HOT GARBAGE

Just Say No, Omar-The fool tried to WRITE beats with words. Too many damn italics. Got on my nerves.

I'm pretty done with Omar. I actually like FTLOM, but it wasn't the hotness.

CO-SIGN on Tina's Ugly Ways and The Hand I Fan With. Those really bothered me. Too many ghosties. For some reason it took me a while to get the sisters right in UW lol.


Bebe Moore Campbell's...Singing in the Comeback Choir-didn't hit any spots.

EJD, Sister Sister was lacking.

I stopped reading Omar Tyree after "For the Love of Money." I was so excited about that book because I absolutely loved "Flyy Girl." But it should never take a person 2 years to read a 200 page book. I couldn't bear reading that garbage for very long. I was so excited about that book that I bought a hardback.:mad: After that I pretty much came to the conclusion he was not the author for me.

I do not read Zane books any longer because I am trying to stop having sex and those books will do nothing but create thoughts in my head. And next thing I know my boyfriend will be in my bed doing everything but sleeping.

I thought I was the only one....
 

I HATED :mad: :mad: :mad: Our Kind of People. What was Lawrence Otis Graham's point? I just couldn't finish that book. You can burn my copy.

I also didn't like How Stella Got Her Grove Back and anything by Omar Tyree after Flyy Girl.

Re: I thought I was the only one....
 

Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority by John McWhorter
It should be titled:

Bitter Little Man I am, Where Are My Green Eggs and Ham?

or

People Who Don't Believe Racism Still Exists (on ay level)
John McWhorter
Shelby Steel
Ward Connerly
Clarence "Uncle" Thomas
:mad:

Re: I thought I was the only one....
 

Just that this segment of the Af-Am population exists. No more, no less.

Funny how some of my favorite books are on various worst of lists.

I liked Hot Johnny - if its that hard to read then read it from back to front - the book is written backwards so instead of being A-Z its actually Z-A with the final chapter as the wrap up. A little challenging but I thought it was interesting - especially how it unfolds & you find out you don't know what you thought you knew.

The Secret Lives of Beento Blackbird - also a favorite of mine.

Gotham Diaries - readable - not sure why so many people are having a hard time reading. Not as bad as these ghetolicious books out here.

And I absolutely LOVE Colin Channers work - all of it. The way he describes things/characters/settings are the beauty of his writing! I met him at a book signing - very intelligent brother & very personable.

I read it this weekend. It was good. I like reading stories about the rich and famous. For me I detected Coffee and Darryl Raye as being Kimora Lee Simmons and Russell Simmons. That is who I pictured in my mind when reading the book. I know ST enjoyed it for the fashion and Hermes bags. :)

I think this is a very good thread--and funny! I've felt for a long time that most African American popular fiction can be classed as shoddy,mass-produced works lacking any real literary merit.This is so because publishers(I believe) think that this clientele has been so starved for books for so long that whatever "stuff" gets published some "sucka" will read it. I hope that this is changing--we need to get Jesse to start another boycott!

Among the thoughtful works I've read in the past few years have been by Tananarive Due and Sci-Fi/Fantasy author Octavia Butler.

Que Psi Phi 'til the day I die!

Man O Man!!!

I trully hope my book does not make this thread!

While "Milk in My Coffee" was entertaining, the story got a bit convoluted with the white woman having 1/16or 1/32 of black ancestry. I think EJD didn't want to totally lose his black female reader base.

Our Kind of People - The fact that Black folks have an elite class doesn't bother me. It's the pathology that goes along with being a member of that class that does. But more importantly, Graham is a poor researcher and he just lists names which just lent credibilty to my statement about pathology.

I threw "Hand I Fan With" across the room and almost burnt it in effigy :mad: I cannot stand inaccesible, unrealistic plot lines.

I HATE Zane's books. There is a difference between erotica and porn. Having a story about a black sorority dedicated to screwing men's brains out only perpetuates the stereotype that black women are hot blooded and sex-crazed. Plus, can't that woman even use a bit of romance? She writes how alot of men approach sex, WHAM, BAM, THANK YOU Ma'am!!!!

PhDiva

I sure did, loved the fashion/Hermes references.
Come to think of it, Coffee and Darryl could be based on Kimora Lee and Russell. And I believe that the Lawrences, the basketball star and his wife buying an apartment from Manny, were Rasheed and Jackie Wallace, for some reason.

hey! everybody! i'm new here, but i love to read, so i thought i'd post.

b-more careful and the other book...i HATED!! i, too, am a stickler for editing. so much so, that i wrote her a letter and offered to edit the books for her. she wrote me back and told me that she couldn't afford it (i hadn't named a price) AND that since i lived in chicago, it might be difficult to work together (hello, heard of the internet/email?). i even gave her 10 corrections for free!!!!

:confused:

Please introduce yourself in the DST Introduction thread at the top of this page.

Y'all are scary!! hahahaha

hey kim! it's kesha!

AWWW snap whats up girl! Ok now I am not nervous...

;)

you know i'm PICKY!!

i will do so right now....see you over in the introduction thread.;)

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

Unless you are into existentialism (sp?) then this book is utter crap. Actually, even if you are into existentialsim, this book is still crap. It's the worst book I have ever read. He spends an entire chapter (ch. 13) explaining how he didn't make the characters do the things they did, they did it of their own free will.


NEVER EVER READ THIS BOOK...or anything else by him for that matter. My mother read The Magus and she said that was crap too.

now, that i've introduced myself, let me say that i agree with other posters...zane is garbage! it's alright to write about sex...as long as the writing is good. all her sexual stuff is repetitive and the filler between the sex scenes is fluff.

I only read one Zane book Addicted, to see what the hoopla was about, it ended differently then I thoght it would. All of her other books verge as others have previously said on the pornographic side.

Incubus Dreams, Nicholas in Chains and ALL of the latter books in the Anita Blake vampire hunter series.

They all begin the same, remain the same and end the same.

Human killed by vampire, Anita Blake and the wereleopards to the rescue, Anita gets hurts, Anita fights back, Vampire is sliced into pieces, Anita lives to fight another day.

The end.

wereleopards??:eek: :eek:

i like myself some scifi/fantasy but that's hilarious!!

The Scarlet Letter - I absolutely hated reading that book. I really don't know why, I just remember it being a painful experience.

Nothin But the Rent by Sharon Mitchell

Why do the worst books always share names with songs (either the titles or a chorus)? :eek: :mad:

I really couldn't stand I am Charlotte Simmons. The Nanny Diaries was way overrated.

I felt the same way about this book. I still haven't finished reading it. I lost track.

I just started reading for thelove of money, and I see that it isn't gonna get any better. I liked flyy girl too, but this one is just lame.


I also wouldn't recommend PUSH. can't think of the author right now, but it was a horrible read to me.

I would never recommend All That & a Bag of Chips. If you are reading this book, put it down. It is a waste of time.
Maybe it's me, but I have found books that use fad(esque) slang as their titles usually aren't worth killing the trees that they're written on.

Also add They Call Me Miss Divine. I don't know what made me purchase this book, but I want my freaking money back!!!!!

The author seemed like she was trying to be deep, hip & mysterious. I don't know. I was lost. In my naivete, I couldn't figure out the main female character. Then, 50 pages in, I finally realized that she was a prostitute!!! I was pissed. I don't generally support books that are all about the degredation of women.

She kept saying stuff like, "I'm a big girl." or "Such-n-such was a Big Girl, like me." I didn't know what that meant. Silly me!

I know this is an old post, but I liked this book. It's distrubing though.

Speaking of disturbing, I would not recommend American Psycho. It disturbed the heck out of me. I had to put it down.