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Summary: A big let down
Review: What Looks Like Crazy has a lot of potential to be a must read but Cleage skipped all over the issues instead of bringing forth the deep concept of living with HIV, loving with HIV, drugs and other urban dilemmas, she just touched the surface and just abandoned the issues. This book was written on a juvenile basis and it just ended. I was highly disappointed. I pushed myself to finish this book and was glad when I finally did.
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Summary: thoroughly and unexpectedly enjoyable..
Review: quietly endearing, disturbing, poignant and beautiful.congratulations pearl, and thank you.
Rating: 
Summary: There's just not enough there...
Review: to appreciate the characters in this book. I was told there would be moments in this book where I would "laugh out loud." That didn't happen. Fortunately, the book was short but unfortunately, it may have been better if the characters had been developed better.
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Summary: Very entertaining.
Review: I enjoyed this book very much. I felt like I was really there, I was pulling for the characters through the story. Even though I found it a "light" read in spite of its serious situations I wanted to know what became of the baby and how Ada's relationship turned out. My mother used to go to Idlewild in its hayday and remembers it to be an enchanting place.
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Summary: compelling realism that pulls heart strings & funny bones
Review: this lady doesn't write stories, she has you so drawn in that you feel as though you are living the life of the characters, like you know them personally, like you can feel their heart beat. This story was a charmer of a most delicate matter. God must have had his orchestral hand resting on the shoulder of this most creative author.
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Summary: Superb reading; couldn't put it down.
Review: Hats off to Pearl Cleage and this delightful piece of work. Her style of writing is one that will capture you right at the heart. She is one who writes 'for real'. She takes you to Idlewild and involves you in everything there. Thanks Pearl for a lovely trip!
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Summary: I wanted more after I finished reading the last page.
Review: I am very familar with Pearl Cleage writings, this is one lady that writes from examples of life experiences. After reading this book I didn't want to image that I could have been Ada living through this horrific situation. Honestly speaking Ms. Cleage did a wonderful job of expressing a black man and black woman having a beautiful relationship, over coming insercurities and keeping the lines of communications flowing.
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Summary: Bleh.
Review: Again. . . bleh. This book = "Days of Our Lives". Bleh
Rating:
Summary: Void of substance and throughly unrealistic
Review: I will give the author the benefit of the doubt, because making the switch from playwright to fiction author is very difficult, however, Every thing about this story was totally unrealistic. One would assume that to choose a subject like AIDS, one must have something to say, or some kind of commentary to make. She made none. Ava was as passive about her disease as if she had the flu. Some aspects of the story had over explination, while most didn't have nearly enough. Her concepts did not flow in one seemless motion, they were broken and sporatic. I had met Eddie in a hundred other books before this one. It was cliche, predictable and a chore to read. The characters were underdeveloped. This is a much longer story that the author made it. With some pratice however, she just might make a significant literary contribution.
Rating: 
Summary: ok
Review: o
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