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Summary: This is a good book.
Review: I like this book a lot. The characters in it are real and the way they talk to each other is real too. These people are the same kind of brothers and sisters and teachers etc that you meet every day. Most of them are cool. Some of them are not and a few of them you don't like at all. I could believe that this story really happened. This is a book that makes you care about the people in it and what happens to them. I would read another book by this author.
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Summary: The Coolest
Review: I thought that this book was true. It gave an outlook on the real world that we live in today. It shows how teens no all just some may have to live each day.
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Summary: A Must Read Book
Review: In the novel, Babylon Boyz, by Jess Mowry, three newly teen boys go through a serious of risky situations in the inner-city streets of Oakland, which they call Babylon. Pook, an out of the closet homosexual, Wyatt, an overweight boy and Dante, a boy with a heart condition. They meet many people along the way, such as Radgi, a homeless person that has a big surprise in the end, Air Touch, who threatens Dante's life with a gun and Jinx that "helps" Pook with his first homosexual encounter. They do such things as dealing cocaine, giving birth to a baby on a couch and almost getting arrested for tagging bathrooms, several times. Throughout the story these boys search for an answer for ways to get out of Babylon and in the end, they figure out, if they would stop searching so hard, that it's right in front of their face. Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give this book a nine. I really enjoyed this book. It was extremely interesting and enlightening. I was mainly intrigued with they boys everyday life. In mine, I have never come close to being shot in the head nor dealing drugs, so I like to read about a life that is different than mine, to expand my knowledge of different worlds. With this book, you are into it the second you read it. And while reading it you won't run into many problems, my only problem was figuring out who was who, but by the middle of the book, that was settled. Other difficulties may include trying to figure out what the slang means, but most of it is pretty straightforward. This book is for anyone who wants to know more about places other than were they live, if they don't already live in a "ghetto". It's really a book that almost anyone would like except little kids, it definitely has some mature subjects in it. A quote that I was really captivated by was when a man said to Dante, "Free will isn't free son. You pay for it every time you make a choice. And even if you choose not to choose, you've still made a choice." This means so much to me. Every single word in it relates to the whole meaning. The meaning is this, how when you make any choice or you decide to do something or even decide not to do something, you are always making choices whether they are good or bad, smart or stupid, right or wrong. And free will, something you are supposed to have no problem doing and you will always have some obstacle in the way and that's life.
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Summary: To be one with the Babylon Boyz
Review: Jess Morwy wrote the awesome book, Babylon Boys about friends sticking together to stand strong in Babylon. The Babylon boys stick through rough times making good or bad choices to stick with one another. The book is written in third person narrative explaining what kind of life people in Babylon live. (Troubles you face in Babylon are watching for cops, protection to family, drugs, and even school problems as well). Babylon relates to real life in Chicago's South side and also New York's crime and hatred. Most cities face problems with drugs, cops, and wrong decision just like this book and more problems. There are lots of things to like about this book, such as when they make fun of one another in a profanity kind of way and get in fights with older people because they think they are not the same because they of a bad heart, are fat, or even gay. This book is an adventure for thrill seekers, or even a book to imagine and learn what it would feel like to live with troubles everyday and only way out is a illegal way out would you take it.
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Summary: Babylon Boyz
Review: The spellbinding book Babylon Boyz, by Jess Mowry, is a thrilling, non-stop, nail bitter. You can't stop but think, what's going to happen next? The many twists and turns keep you falling off your seat. You feel as if you are the main character. It's that real. The characters have all kinds of different personalities, from a gay teenager to a crack dealing gang associate. All live hectic and violent street lives. The story revolves around the lives of five troubled teens, which live on the streets of Oakland. In a backdoor sub-division called Babylon. In Babylon this is where all the kids triumphs and falls occur. This book was amazing right from the get go. The first line entices you and brings you right into the story. The first chapter is exemplary, you really feel like your part it. The book is not for the faint of heart. It speaks of drugs, sex and gangs. It also uses slang to get the point across that this isn't any ordinary book. It really speaks from the heart of all inner cities. The slang is somewhat difficult but the use of it really makes you feel as if you're living on the violent inner-city streets. Without the use of the slang terms, the book wouldn't be as real. The book does have its difficulties. Sometimes the slang is too hard to understand if you're not fond with Ebonics. The story is sometimes random, and takes awhile before you can understand what's going on. The sentences vary from short to long; this may confuse the reader. One tip on reading this fantastic story is that always be ready for a surprise. This book isn't like anything I've read or seen before in my life. It was also the first time I've ever read a book written by Jess Mowry. He's spectacular; I've never read a story with such relentlessness and power. I would recommend this book to all people over the age of thirteen, because it has strong language and a lot of sexual content. If you're looking for change and want to read something new, pick Babylon Boyz, because you can't believe it until you read it. If I were to put this book on a scale from 1 to 10, I'd definitely give it a 10! It's that good. So next time your at a library and don't know what book you want to read, with out a doubt, pick up Babylon Boyz, you'll never put it down.
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Summary: Babylon Boyz
Review: There are 3 black kids from Babylon. Pook is a Homosexual, Dante has a heart problem, and Wyatt is just...fat. The kids live in the ghetto, and go through a lot of hardships trying to find themselves, and deciding what's right and wrong. The people they meet aren't who you think they are when you first read it. This book is the best book I've read so far. You get so into the book, you forget everything else. Everything about inner-city life is in here. Poverty, Pre-marital intercourse,drugs, Teen-age pregnancies and the difficulities making it through a day of this. They could make a tv movie out of this...I'll be the first to watch it. The book is not for kids under 15. It has adult language and adult content. You will keep on wanting to read the book, it's almost addicting.
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Summary: Babylon Boyz
Review: There are 3 black kids from Babylon. Pook is a Homosexual, Dante has a heart problem, and Wyatt is just...fat. The kids live in the ghetto, and go through a lot of hardships trying to find themselves, and deciding what's right and wrong. The people they meet aren't who you think they are when you first read it. This book is the best book I've read so far. You get so into the book, you forget everything else. Everything about inner-city life is in here. Poverty, Pre-marital intercourse,drugs, Teen-age pregnancies and the difficulities making it through a day of this. They could make a tv movie out of this...I'll be the first to watch it. The book is not for kids under 15. It has adult language and adult content. You will keep on wanting to read the book, it's almost addicting.
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Summary: ZUH!
Review: This one takes some getting used to. I had a lot of trouble getting over all the slang used, and noticing how dated it was. No one around here has talked like that for years and its weird getting used to. Sometimes, it wasn't that realistic too, but hey, thats what books are for.Once you get into it, its really a great story. Dante is a character you can't help but love and the rest are so nice and forgiving and open, it kinda makes you realize why some inner-city kids form such strong bonds with their friends. Jess Mowry did a great job with this one, and I will definately read some more of his work.
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