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
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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!!!!

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