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Summary: Read This Book!!
Review: Hardy crafted a really likable book with very realistic characters. The pace was quick and the plot was great. Hardy really found the hearts of both protaganist and let them shine through. In the end, I felt that the book was well worth the hype; Rahiem and Mitchell are two of the most original and endearing characters that I've encountered in some time. I hope Hardy continues to create characters as human as these.
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Summary: Can dreams really come true
Review: The book was excellent.Some of the things Raheim did were things a true B-Boy would never do but it is nice to dream. I am really glad that he finally broke the stereo typpes of black gay men. It also serves as a wake up call to gay white men also.Keep putting it out there Yo
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Summary: THIS WAS A GREAT BOOK!!!
Review: I TRULY ENJOYED IT. JAMES EARL HARDY TRULY DID THE GAY COMMUNITY JUSTICE! I MYSELF AM NOT GAY. BUT THROUGH THIS BOOK I GAINED A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR RELATIONSHIPS...THE LOVE AND HURT JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. THANK YOU, MR. HARDY! I CAN'T WAIT TO READ THE SECOND BOOK!
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Summary: THIS WAS A GOOD BOOK
Review: WHILE BEING AN EXECELLENT TESTIMONY TO BLACK LOVE I JUST COULDN'T GET WITH THE SEX. IT WAS JUST TOO GRAPHIC. YOU CAN TELL WHEN A BOOK IS GOOD BECAUSE YOU START TO IDENTIFY WITH THE CHARACTERS, I HAD TO REMIND MYSELF POOQUIE WAS A MAN. I HAVE YET TO READ THE SEQUEL, EVEN THOUGH I KNOW IT'LL BE GREAT, I HAVE TO GET READY FOR THE SEX SCENES.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book is nothing like I imagined. Once I started reading it I could not put it down. It totally changed my opinion about homosexual relationships. Li'l Bit and Pooquie showed that they go through all the same things heterosexuals go through and love the same way too. Whenever I see a "B-Boy" on the street I always wonder if he's "Pooquie". Gone is the feminine stereotype of homosexuals. James Earl Hardy has shown in his writing that homosexuals can be as "hard" and "down" as the next person.
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Summary: I love this book!
Review: I'm not black and I'm not gay (and I almost felt sorry for that..) but I love this book like no other (except maybe Jim Grimsley's Dream Boy -- another 10!). The love story of Li'l Bit and Pooquie is so exuberant, colorful and tough! This is wonderful story-telling. I read it in one day and then re-read it every day for almost two weeks! Great stuff!!!
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Summary: A must read to any black gay male........
Review: From start to finish, this book will hold your attention. From the "ups" and "downs" of their relationship, "Pooquie" and "Lil Bit" somehow know that they are truly meant for the other. Outsiders on both ends tell the lovers what they feel they should do about the other. Only until "pooquie" himself can face what he truly is does the affair goes anywhere
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Summary: This Book Opened My Eyes
Review: I am a gay white man, in his late thirties, who has been in a relationship with a gay black man for two years. We were on the verge of breaking up a few months ago -- according to my partner, I was "acting too white" -- when he gave me this book to read. Mr. Hardy has not only written one hell of a love story, he's also provided we so-called "liberal white people" (especially the gay ones) with a brutally honest and necessary reading on what racism is and how even we white people with good intentions need to check ourselves. I'm glad he didn't hold back, trying to make white people comfortable in our ignorance and arrogance. We need to know that there are worlds that exist without us. I've always had black lovers but none of those relationships lasted long. Now I know why. Like many other gay white men, I believed I couldn't be racist because I am gay and couldn't be prejudiced against another minority group, and especially because I love black men. I'm working on my own racism, and hopefully my lover and I will stay together and can continue to build on what we have. And I look forward to reading Mr. Hardy's other titles. He is an amazing talent and should be at a university, teaching people (especially white ones) about racism
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Summary: Don't take away...the music
Review: Main character gossips, moralises and cries all of the time, is indiscriminately distrustful of anyone white and he just never stops. How wonderful then that these things don't seem to matter as the story develops and we read how he enters in a relationship with this 100% HipHop national, in comparison to whom our main character is almost a 'whity' himself. The story cleverly develops the point that both can love each other while identities need not become confused. Coming from another culture myself, that is the general message that I understood and appreciated. But I was most directly touched by the music. I loved to read this book that reviewed half of my record collection. The writer gave me insight about where that music is coming from and what it means to the black american community. Thank you
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Summary: Finally, a word of honesty about B-Boys
Review: James Earl Hardy has managed to capture, in I imagine, a from his own experience account, the most honest and surprising story of what is like dating and loving B-Boys. Hardy carefully describes the many emotional mood swings of B-Boys, where B can very well stand for Bi-Sexual, especially in confused Raheim's case. I appreciate this story finally being told, and I strongly recommend reading of other works by Hardy
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