I wanted a pic with him and that dag blasted jheri curl!! LMAO
I read it at work in like 2 days in between calls and would get mad when someone would call.

Me too!!!! I kept looking at the picture on the inside of the cover and squinting my eyes trying to imagine him with a curl. That had to be some comedy. And he had the nerve to catch a halfway attitude when his boss told him to cut it. Lynn, he did you a favor!

He just knew he was the isht with that drippy jheri curl. LMBO!!! I wanna see those pics too. :D

You know how BLACK folks are sensitive about their CURLS!! LMAO!! I bet you Lynn thought he was the drip drip shizzle fo rizzle.

CTFU. CTFU. CTFU @ drip drip shizzle fo rizzle. :p

I'm late, sorry! The book was AWESOME! The best autobiography that I've ever read! I feel so blessed that I haven't had to go through all of that. He was depressed for most of his life. I'm glad he's found peace within self.

I just read JUST AS I AM for the first time ever and I see a lot of his autobiography in this book:

* dealing with Kyle's death that appears to have been a suicide reminds me of Randy's own death

* his depression and finally going to see a therapist, coming to grips with sexuality


* reading this now I was like YEAH TRENT IS THE MAN but I remembered how in LOVE OF MY OWN he did get with a woman :mad:

* that dang on BASIL

* his mentioning of the fraternity and their homophobic attitudes


Overall I guess reading this book now helped me to see a lot of autobiographical parallels between Raymond and E. Lynn. . . he might try to say Raymond is fiction, but there is TRUTH in every fiction.

yep, yep
 

I agree. I think there were already some of E. Lynn's memoirs in each of his books.

Final Thoughts
 

As August is quickly coming to a close, and my classes are starting :rolleyes: , I think that it's about time to discuss our final thoughts on the book. Favorite parts, things that you still want to know, Least favorite parts, overall reactions, and any other tidbits that you want to throw out there.

I haven't really given any of my own opinions on the book, but I will now. I really enjoyed the book and I tore right through it. The beginning of the book was really sad to me. I just hate how men used to marry women who already have children and then treat the kids that are not theirs like dirt. What's more, I hate how the women stand by and let it happen. This is a recurring theme in many books that I've read.

Additionally, I want to know what happened to Mario. Lynn (I'm calling him Lynn like we go back :D ) mentioned that he died but never said how. I want to know what happened to Randy too. He didn't strike me as a person who would commit suicide. And, it just warmed my heart how Richard hung in there as long as he wanted to. I'm sure that he went home to Glory a happy man.

Finally, I'd just like to say that I really enjoyed being the leader of the inaugural meeting of the GC Book Club. I had two tons of fun. School is starting and I am going to have one tough semester so I won't be on GC as much. I'll probably miss the September discussion. I definitely enojoyed running thangs ;)