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Summary: Rave, drugs and danger anyone? Yes please!
Review: 200 BPM is probably the best "portrait" of the American rave scene ever written. Cheers to Eddie Beverage, who knows his subject matter well and who writes with shocking overdoses of passion, purpose, and honesty.Beverage constructs a semi-autobiographical story involving chemically-enhanced Orlando teenage ravers. Nothing is so important to his characters as drugs, danger, and camaraderie. Sound a little familiar? You won't find any PC, "all-American", leave-it-to-beaver crap in this story; only beauty attained through suffering, ecstasy and agony brought by chemicals, and the naked truths of life , maturity, and sexuality as experienced in the chaotic minds of this self-dubbed "breakbeat" generation. This is America. This is us. This is how we feel on drugs: homo-erotic, unloved, and insane. A must-read for all Americans either involved with or ignorant of the true history of the last ten years of American counter-culture. You are due for some fun and education and you will get it!
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Summary: Excellent Grass Roots (DIY) Feel
Review: A modern 'Catcher in the Rye'.
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Summary: Eddie and his first book
Review: Eddie - I love you, I remember you as you were struggling with
the world, the book agents, st. martin's press, and rave
culture. I remember your excitement in this publication 4 years ago. I remember reading your new manuscripts for "Broken" just
last year - and I eagerly await the release of your new
book. So do it!! Do it now!! For all the rest of you. 200 BPM is a fantastic read, a great
glimpse into the heart and soul of Americana waiting, struggling
to find an identity in itself in the face of the hypocracy of
suburban life. It engages the self indulgancy of youth, a
phenomenon which is at once beautiful and frightening - the
honesty of its articulation and the playful experimentation of
its release is fantastically well captured in these pages. Then, with me, eagerly await the release of Eddie's forthcoming
book (as I demand it be forthcoming). A look into the demise
of that very youth, and perhaps a more mature coming of age in
the postmodern precept of adulthood and identity. ciao!
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Summary: it was the best book i ever read
Review: i could relate. i never read but i couldnt stop reading this book. the only thing i didnt care for was the fact that he was gay . i could say that i felt like there are more people out there like me and that it made my feel great. also i liked when he mentioned djs that i love ,proveing to me that he knew what was up.
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Summary: A great book that discusses sexual idenity and love
Review: I found this book very beneifical. I choose to read this book in hopes of better understanding what it's like to be gay. I strongly believe this was accomplished. The most important thing that I took from this book was seeing how how much love people can have for one another.
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Summary: This book is so cool! House Music ALL NIGHT LONG!
Review: I would call this reality-based fiction. It is a fictional work (I imagine), but is based in the real life world of the underground dance clubs. This is a wild scene that Mtv and Madonna, with their poor attempts at techno music, have unsuccessfully tried to exploit for cash. The author here hits the mark where they missed - and vividly describes this environment as the setting for a really cool story of friends. I think the media and music companies are now downing techno and the scene, because they couldn't make $, and miss the point with the music and the culture, because it's not about idol worship and product placement, but about young people going out all night and getting crazy with the people that they love. Great job - Eddie! Amazon: Do you have anything else by this author?
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Summary: The reality of American youth
Review: In response to all those who have expressed concern over the violence in the book, I'd like to point out that 200 BPM is a direct conduit to a very specific place and time. The story takes place during the DECLINE of rave in Orlando, Florida (circa 1995), a time when the scene became vastly spoiled by overcrowded clubs, dirty pills and yes, sometimes even violence. This is by no means a reflection of RAVE CULTURE as a whole. In retrospect, there would have been heavier consequences for the characters' actions, but in life, things don't always work that way, and as voyeurs (each and every one of us), we're not always privy to the emotional consequences suffered by those around us.
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Summary: An amateurish first novel; maybe his next one will be better
Review: In this short but action-packed novel, Eddie Beverage tries to counteract the popular media portrayal of the "rave culture" as mainly being about drugs, sex, violence, and a slacker ethic. What he succeeds in showing is that, in fact, the "rave culture" is about drugs, sex, violence, and a slacker ethic. And did I mention drugs? I can't imagine that anyone could find the protagonists in this book sympathetic, or even particularly interesting. Aside from the perfunctory declaration of peace, love, respect, etc., that is the pledge-of-allegiance-like mantra of the rave culture, these guys apparently stand for nothing except their own aimless self-indulgence and a voracious appetite for drugs, which they consume in endless quantities and varieties. Even the material about the music, which could have been the most interesting part of the narrative, is fragmented and perfunctory. The author drops a few names, provides some very basic descriptions of differing electronic music styles, and then quickly returns to his real focus, the drugs. The young people whose misadventures form the basis for the novel might easily have portrayed as confused and harmless, but Beverage actually shows them to be monsters of a sort. In one section, they invade a private home to use the telephone, but when the homeowner returns unexpectedly, one of the group, high on drugs (of course) beats the hapless gentleman into a coma with a golf club. The reader is "relieved" to learn, however, that the merry band of ravers escapes without arrest and then quickly forgets about the whole incident--hey, whatever! If Beverage thinks he is going to create sympathy for the rave culture through this kind of effort, he is mistaken. Actually, it would not surprise me at all if the book is a kind of put-on, a parody, or perhaps even something created by a member of the Christian Right in a "mole"-like attempt to make the rave culture appear far more dreary, corrupt, and hopeless than it actually is. The only reason I gave the book two stars instead of one is that I am guessing the book is the novelist's first book, and he should perhaps be cut a bit of slack in its debut :-).
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Summary: A Good First Try at Writing
Review: Obviously this author's first book, it was frought with typos and other literary faux pas. That being said, the book is entertaining. The author has a wonderful vocabulary and is very expressive, I enjoyed his writing style. However, the character development was slow and choppy. I think the author has alot of potential which will reveal itself better when he writes about more diverse topics instead of drug binges from beginning to end.
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Summary: Very realistic look into drug scene but not life.
Review: This book was very compelling and Eddie Beverage when describing the graphic drug details was obviously speaking from experience, however the plot was predictable and the ending was very weak and disappointing.
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