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Summary: WHAT A WASTE OF TIME!
Review: I HAVE TO AGREE WITH THE REVIEWER THAT ASKED "WHY ALL THE FUSS". MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION WAS TO READ 100 BOOKS (ALL BY AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS) IN 2000. SO FAR SO GOOD. BUT 2 DAYS AGO I FOUND MYSELF WITH OUT ANY NEW READING MATERIAL. I DID HOWEVER, HAVE THE REMAINING UNREAD PORTION OF "CLOSE TO THE BONE". NORMALLY, IT TAKES MY ANYWHERE FROM 1-5 DAYS TO READ A BOOK. DEPENDING ON HOW INTERESTING IT IS. WELL, WITH INTEREST BEING THE DRIVING FACTOR FOR DETERMINING HOW LONG IT TAKES ME TO COMPLETE A BOOK, THEN LET ME JUST SAY THAT I RECEIVED THIS BOOK AS A MOTHERS DAY GIFT FOR 1999. THAT'S RIGHT, MAY 1999. IT TOOK ME "11 MONTHS" TO COMPLETE THIS ONE. HOPEFULLY, MR. LAMAR PRESENT US WITH MORE WORTH WHILE READING MATERIAL NEXT TIME.
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Summary: Superb!!!!
Review: Lamar, nails it again. I read this book in 2 days. He's able to capture the essence of each character and the struggle with their identities. The character named "Tony" was exciting and shows that truth grow comes from facing and walking through fire. I really enjoyed it. Lamar is one of the premier authors of this century. I hope more people view him as a complicated, funny, and real literary genius similar to Richard Wright.
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Summary: Black-maleness at its best
Review: WHEW! Finishing this book was like closing a chapter in my life. It highlighted just what I thought brothers were thinking and feelings about in relationships in general. The characters jumped at you and though "adversity" wasn't apparent (all had middle-upper class upbringings) their plights took me on a journey I enjoyed for 24 hours [that is right, read it in a day]. Hal's visual delima vs. his actual delima with dealing with a white girlfriend gave me an insight about how brothers see themselves in interracial relationships. There were some catches that I didn't like...Walker's life summation with Eva, and Corky's summation in Amsterdam. This all seemed too wrapped up, too clean. Also the [very] brief encounter with LaTonya and Hal didn't begin to envelop the emotions I developed from their two interloping stories.
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