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Summary: For the love of money
Review: After I read flyy girl I was desperate to read the follow up but the truth is I couldn't get enthused about the book to make it 2 the end I loved Flyy girl But for the love of money was garbage... sorry Omar Tyree..
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Summary: A SPIN UNEXPECTED !!
Review: Well, I read Flyy Girl a few years back and was feeling like da book could've been better written till i got to tha end and realize this book was based on an actual woman. So i felt a little better about it. And I read it a few more times and felt alot better about it. Actually loved it! So when i came across da sequal, i read it and actually didn't enjoy it at first but constantly reminded myself that this is tha life of an actual person. So I tuned in more and really started lovin it. When I completed it, I decided to go online to reserch Tracy Ellison Grant to only find out through another book review of For the Love of Money that Tracy Ellison Grant was only a fictional character! I wonder'd why those books weren't under non-fiction. If you ask me Omar Tyree is one of tha best authors out there and this book certainly proves it!
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I have to say that the sequal to Flyy Girl left me feeling dissapointed. FTLoM seemed to go way too slow for me. In all of the chapters that take place in 2000 you already know that she is a sucess where as in the 1996 chapters she still hasn't gotten her success yet. It just seems to take too long to get the points of the story.
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Summary: Let Me Spare You
Review: O.K so you read Flyy Girl and you want to read for the love of money, and you want to read it only to really find out what happens to her and victor right well alot of you are going to probably be mad but if you get this book and spend your hard earned money on it your going to be madder. (NO SHE DOES NOT END UP WITH VICTOR) and only like 6 pages are devoted to telling you why, and the rest of the book is all B.S. so dont be mad i told you honestly feel relieved. I promise if you ever happen to get your hand on a FREE COPPIE of this book you'll want to find me and thank me for not letting you spend your money on this piece of (you already know).
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Summary: What Happened Tyree?
Review: I was really excited to know that the Flyy Girl had turned into a woman, but once I read the book. I wish all that I had was the image of the Flyy Girl. I was very disappointed. Mr. Tyree seemed to even be cocky, by putting himself in the novel as a writer. The whole plot was just too unreal. It was an OK book, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that loved Fly Girl.
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Summary: I THOUGHT THIS BOOK WAS GOOD
Review: I read all 139 of the reviews written here and I think most of the people were too hard on Omar. A lot of people said that it was unrealistic the way Tracy went from being a schoolteacher to TV writer to screenwriter to actress in a short period of time. Sometimes it happens like that for people, and they pay no dues. Look at Antwone Fisher. He was a security guard and he wrote a screenplay of his life story and Denzel Washington directed it. The man was a security guard who didn't have a master's degree like Tracy did. Look at Will Smith. He was a teenage rapper, turned TV star, turned movie star in a matter of a few years. These guys paid no dues. Sometimes fairy tales do come true. I saw a woman on Oprah who became a reporter just by imitating a rooster on Oprah's show. Someone spotted her on the show, thought she had a great personality and offered her a job. She went from A to Z - just like that! She called herself a princess, because of the way things happened. Then because of this, she found her prince. This millionaire married her and she has a beautiful mansion with an elevator so she doesn't have to walk up the stairs. Her husband even had a limo custom made just for her so that she doesn't have to drive to and from work every day. She paid no dues. This happened overnight, and just because she knew how to imitate a rooster and did it on Oprah's show. And her husband didn't come from money. He was self-made. He was a waiter, turned investment banker, turned millionaire. He was a young guy too. And she was a young woman. So I don't think it's fair to jump on Omar for making the book so unrealistic. Things happen that way sometimes. If you want to read about reality, pick up a newspaper - not a fictional novel. I enjoyed the story. It held my interest and I finished it in a few days. I thought it was skillful the way he made this woman seem so real. I had to remind myself that she was fictional, because I never heard of the movie she was in! I thought it was a unique spin. Maybe Flyy Girl is for GIRLS, and For the Love of Money is for WOMEN. I haven't read Flyy Girl. I think it may be too young for me. Been there, done that. Peace!
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Summary: DUMB
Review: this was far most one of the worst books omar tyree has ever published!
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Summary: It's Tracy's world...we just live in it.
Review: Ok...what can I say?...I so looked forward to reading this book after reading Flyy Girl...which, despite some minor flaws, I found interesting having just turned sixteen on the day I started the book on Christmas 1996.
For the Love of Money however was a bit dissappointing.
I kinda expected the same formula as Flyy girl, you know, the sex, the suspense, teenage jealousy, and all that juicy stuff.
But I also respected the fact that Tracy had grown up, and changed, so I was better able to accept the absence of those types of plotlines. Therefore, the absence of these things are not the reason why I did not favor this novel.
The poetry was kind of cheesey, especially the "Homemade Twinkie" piece. BR>There was no strong plot development, and I often found myself wondering about the connecting plot, background or lack thereof. I concidered myself a fly on the wall during a very not-reader friendly part of Tracy's life. Exciting for her...not for me.
The book drew me in mainly because of a pre-release review I read reffering to the lead character as Tracy Ellison-GRANT.
Hello! I'm thinkin the Flyy Girl has settled down and gotten married. Now that would be plot with some potential.
Right there, I was already expecting more than I ended up getting.
Despite my lack of knowledge about the screenwriting field, even I knew that Tracys quick assention to Hollywood fame was a bit overdone, and unrealistic.
Ok...so this is my synopsis of these two stories: A Typical stereotypical fawned-over-for-her-beauty black-light skinned girl with hazel eyes is hated by girls and loved by boys, always gets what she wants by any means necessary.
Gets into a couple bad situations, but overall does not really have any piviotal moments urging her to leave life in the fast lane behind.
She happens to meet some college girls. This probably only happens because she is that typical stylish pretty girl, cool enough to even be looked at and accepted by the college crowd at a high school age. She suddenly becomes WISE and afro-centric, during the late 80's and early 90's, a time where it JUST SO HAPPENS that "droppin knowledge", natural hair styles and sporting african garb is in style. Go Figure. Something drives me to think that this may be the ONLY reason she turned so "political" and connected to her herritage at the end. So now, in this novel, she is able to forget about the horrible way she used to act, and treat people, and overshadow it by preaching to young people at her high school things that anyone with common sense would know.
She still ends up getting everything she wants in the end, and becomes a movie star millionaire. There is really no lesson to be learned, just another story of a pretty black girl getting what she wants in the end, except Victor, but who the hell cares since every man who makes contact with her in both novels wants her ANYHOW.
Tracy's behavior in Flyy Girl is not even really regarded as bad...but rather just an eventful stage in her life. As a woman who watched girls like Tracy prance around high school acting like they were all that, and treating their female counterparts like garbage, I would like to see someone like her receive vengance in some way shape or form, if even by way of a novel. Oh well, some girls get all the luck.
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Summary: it was ok but not betta than flyy girl
Review: this book was very good. it didn't have that spice or sexual style that it had in flyy girl. it was still good though cause the book showed how she grew out of her wreckless teen years and into an smart intelligent and sucessful woman. the other great thing about this book is that in flyy girl she was stuck on victor hinson and she waited on his sorry a** through college then for him to go out and get married then become muslim right after he got out of jail and not think once about tracy was bogus. but she got through that phase cause to me he was the only thing that was still linking her to the past but she showed him. so this book was great and i rated it a 4 cause it wasn't quite as eventful as flyy girl but it was still off da hook!!!!
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Summary: time wasted
Review: IT WAS TERRIBLE, THE WORST PART WAS THE POETRY!!!! THEY HAD NO FEELING, NO COLOR, NO NO NO
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