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Not the best of the series, by far........2007-09-04
As is the usual case with the Girls From Da Hood series, this book is a compilation of hood stories filled with the typical "sex, crime and drugs" element. Kashamba Williams turned it out with Brooklyn's Finest, the first and best story in this particular series. However, the further you read on, the writing grows weak. Snake to Snitch by Mark Anthony is tolerable at best and the ending is whack. I couldn't even deal with Star Quality written by ... I don't even know. It had no tact whatsoever and I started to believe the author lost vision of what they wanted this story to be about. I can understand where the author tried to create mystery by withholding certain information until the climax, but it just left me bored and confused. The actual climax was pathetic, thus making the "mystery" pointless. One decent thing I can say about the story though is that the writer tried to create a main female character who was not slave to her genitals, and who tried to have at least some kind of common sense about herself. Buy this book if it is extremely cheap. Otherwise, check it out from the library first. I recommend GFDH one and two over three.
Lastly, I am compelled to say that, although Brooklyn's Finest was the best of the three stories, the two female characters' lack of intelligence, self-respect and conscience was absurd and despicable. I could not ignore that fact and found it hard to cheer for them. The mother character, however, I felt sympathy for. KW could have just wrote a story about her and left those two chickenheads out.
Enjoyed Girls from Da Hood 1 & 2 much better.......2007-08-15
Only the last story held my interest, finally we know what happen to Unique. To tell the truth, I can't remember much about the other stories, but that what you get when it's complied by different authors. However, the first two books were excellent.
I love these little books, grate stories.......2007-07-17
I finally got the ending to my story with Unique I waited a long time!
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.......2007-07-08
I MUST SAY AS I READ THE REVIEWS ON THIS BOOK AFTER I READ IT I SHOULD HAVE READ THE REVIEWS FIRST BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE PLAYED A BIG PART IN BUYING THIS BOOK. THE FIRST TWO STORIES WERE FINE, BUT THE LAST STORY IN THE BOOK WAS BAD. IT WAS ALL OVER THE PLACE. I COULDNT WAIT TO FINISH IT AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY, BUT TO HURRY UP AND BE FINISH SO I COULD GO ON TO ANOTHER WORTHY BOOK TO READ, SORRY
This book was cool.......2007-06-25
The stories in this book were okay. However, just like other reviewers of this book, I didn't care for "Star Quality" too much though. It was missing the drama and the intensity of the 1st and possibly 2nd story. Its seemed as if the plot was all over the place, definitely could have been a better read. I liked the 1st two stories...they were worth the time but Star Quality needed a bit more pizzaz...Walk don't run to the bookstore or library. Nice read, but not great.
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Girls From Da Hood 2 is the story of Helena, Storm and Keyshawn, three very different young ladies living in Marcy projects who are linked together by one man. His name is Malek Shaw, and he's the best and the worst thing that's happened to each one of them.
Helena Smith's life was on track. She was an A+ student and just voted most likely to succeed in her high school class. She was just about to get out of the ghetto on an academic scholarship until the night of her boyfriend's eighteenth birthday. Now her father's in jail, her mother's abandoned her and she's carrying her boyfriend's brother's child.
All Storm Johnson wanted to do was have her baby and spend the rest of her life with her boyfriend, Malek. That is until she woke up one day to find the police knocking at her door. Now she's being charged with possession of drugs with the intent to distribute, and Malek is nowhere to be found.
Keyshawn Nixon is Malek's old flame. She used to be a prostitute, but now she's left the life and is looking for revenge on Malek, the man who turned her out.
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The Path to self destruction........2007-04-01
Nikki, Kashamba and Joy are among the most popular authors of today and I expect to be highly entertained whenever I read any of their novels.
Well of course these ladies didn't disappoint...as always they write with an edgy realness that makes you feel like you either have to kick some as* or comfort someone. These authors have delivered three good stories that will surely prompt the reader to stay tuned for the next installment.
Each author has written in her own style what really happens when someone follows the road to self destruction.
I liked all three stories.
Africa - I just wanted to shake her and tell her to wake up and smell the coffee.
Harmony - Is a wanna be, who becomes a has been...I like that twist AND I like Nikko...
Unique - I felt sorry for her but...what goes around comes around.
A recommended read especially if you've read the first book (this is the better book) or if you're planning on reading the third installment.
Locksie
ARC Book Club Inc.
Star Rating 5.0
WHAT HAPPENED???.......2006-11-21
"Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Girls From Da Hood 2 is the story of Helena, Storm and Keyshawn, three very different young ladies living in Marcy projects who are linked together by one man. His name is Malek Shaw, and he's the best and the worst thing that's happened to each one of them.
Helena Smith's life was on track. She was an A+ student and just voted most likely to succeed in her high school class. She was just about to get out of the ghetto on an academic scholarship until the night of her boyfriend's eighteenth birthday. Now her father's in jail, her mother's abandoned her and she's carrying her boyfriend's brother's child.
All Storm Johnson wanted to do was have her baby and spend the rest of her life with her boyfriend, Malek. That is until she woke up one day to find the police knocking at her door. Now she's being charged with possession of drugs with the intent to distribute, and Malek is nowhere to be found.
Keyshawn Nixon is Malek's old flame. She used to be a prostitute, but now she's left the life and is looking for revenge on Malek, the man who turned her out."
OK What is that all about they have the wrong editorial for this book anyway i bought this book and i read it in about 5 hours i loved it it was a page turner will order anything that has to do with these authors
Way better than the first!.......2006-06-05
Of course I started with the last story first because I had to see what has become of that hoodrat Unique. And of course Nikki Turner doesn't disappoint and the ending proves superb. I actually felt sorry for Unique's grimey behind but it just goes to show what goes around definitely comes back around. In "Chocolate girl", Kasamba Williams brings the facts. Finally a story about a believable character. One who's not popular in the looks department and experiences some real everyday issues. In "Wanna be", we read about a girl who just wants to fit in and be like her hommies. I was deceived by this story all the way until the end. What a surprise! The three authors of "Girls from the hood 2" really put it down on a serious note. Keeps you wanting more.
Jus Gets Better!!!.......2006-04-11
When I went and bought this book, I was expecting for it to be mind-blowing, intriguing, and better than the first... Needless to say I wasn't disappointed one bit.. I loved this book and felt it was worth every penny..
As for Unique, lets just say what goes around truly does come back around!!! Damn that story had me in tears...
I loved it and can't wait for Nikkki Turner's next Novel
GOOD!.......2006-01-20
Yeah this was good. Africa A.K.A. Chocolate was an ugly girl w low self esteem. She was always told she was ugly even by her own mother. Well, Africa gets kicked out the house. She meets a guy, but this is where she gets stupid. Harmony is a good rich girl, unitl she meets crack cocaine. Read along as she gets hooked and poor. Unique! This chick really gets what she deserves. I was happy they continued this story. This was betta than Girls From the Hood 1
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GOOD READ.......2007-06-26
I really enjoyed this book I liked all three storys, Please get into the girls from the hood books, they are worth the time and the money!!!!!!
I like the the book........2007-05-04
I like the nikki turner part of the book about Unique, but i really do not like the other two stories. The other two just don't measure. If you want to read this book, read the nikki turner part.
A good read.......2007-01-04
This book has three different stories that are all interesting and a page turner.
Keeping it "Real"?.......2006-03-24
This is outside the stuff I normally read but these "ghetto lit" books, published by small African-American indie publishers and advertised as real stories of "hood life" by insiders, are tremendously popular right now and have become a subgenre unto themselves, so I've been wondering what it's all about.
I picked up Girls From Da Hood because I knew Nikki Turner as one of the originators of the form, and Chunichi is also a well known name. With three novellas in the book I had a chance to sample 3 different tales from the genre.
"Unique" is Nikki Turner's contribution and it was the strongest for me. Unique is fascinating, a completely conscience-less (and conscious-less) hustling female who works with her friend Strolla to work every scam she can to keep the bills paid once her drug-dealer boyfriend is jailed for a long stretch. The ins and outs of her socializing and perpetrating were fascinating, although Unique and Strolla are never likeable characters. It's more the fascination of watching a train wreck that carries the reader through rather than any sympathy for the characters.
"Nina" by Roy Glenn is the story of one woman's descent from almost-made-it-out (at the beginning of the story Nina has just graduated from college with a degree in business) to in-over-her-head and facing a murder charge. On her first day back in town after graduation, with vague plans to find a job and start a career, Nina runs into her old highschool flame, who still carries a torch for her and is now quite successful in the drug game. She falls hard for him all over again and enjoys the high life with him for a time but things go terribly wrong and Nina is left to decide whether to get her life back on the straight and narrow or continue in the ghetto world. I had a hard time sympathizing with Nina because she had other options and threw them away; in fact I found her even less sympathetic than Unique because Unique never had a chance to be in any other world than that of the hustlin' hood. Nina chooses to remain there over and over again.
"Anyeh" is Chunichi's entry and while the plot strung me along and kept me reading, ultimately the twists and turns stopped making sense and became unbelievable. Anyeh is beholden to a mysterious cell phone caller she knows only as "my baby" and is collaborating with "my baby" to take down the biggest hustler in Virginia, Diablo. Will Diablo be fooled? Will his scheming sister explose Anyeh? Or will Anyeh herself mess up and fall for the one she is supposed to be leading to destruction? There is some suspense but the payoff was somewhat lacking.
However, all three stories were page turners in the end, easy and fast to read and wall to wall with comtemporary slang. They read like a window into a world you suspect lays out there but don't necessarily want to live in yourself--are they only portraying the "real world" or are they creating another layer of glamorous, decadent and violent fantasy that has the same appeal as gangster rap for those who don't actually live "the life"? It's hard to say but I can see why these books are so popular--they go down fast and easy and certainly come off as realistic. I felt vaguely like I'd eaten a big helping of unhealthy food after I finished, but I enjoyed it along the way and would be tempted to go back for another helping.
Hoodrats!.......2006-01-30
This book consist of 3 stories, all about (obviously) girls from the hood. The first story is by Nikki Turner, a wonderful author and its about shady, shiest women. Very entertaining story. The second story is written by Roy Glenn. I'd never heard of him before this book, but after reading this I will definitely look into him, His story is about a woman who ends up having to hustle to maintain her lifestyle. This was my favorite story out of the three. Lastly, there was a story by Chunichi, one of the hoodest authors out there right now. This story has all kinds of twists and surprises. There is also a short story by Carl Weber. This book is a definite MUST BUY. I recommend this book to everyone reading this review.
---Pryncez
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HoodRats!.......2006-10-10
This book consist of 3 stories, all about (obviously) girls from the hood. The first story is by Nikki Turner, a wonderful author and its about shady, shiest women. Very entertaining story. The second story is written by Roy Glenn. I'd never heard of him before this book, but after reading this I will definitely look into him, His story is about a woman who ends up having to hustle to maintain her lifestyle. This was my favorite story out of the three. Lastly, there was a story by Chunichi, one of the hoodest authors out there right now. This story has all kinds of twists and surprises. There is also a short story by Carl Weber. This book is a definite MUST BUY. I recommend this book to everyone reading this review.
---Pryncez
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In what is nearly his final adventure, Travis McGee falls deeply in love with Gretel, his live-aboard boatmate. Then Gretel is horribly and impersonally murdered.
Desperate and half-demented, McGee sets out to find the killers. The trail leads him to the Church of Apocrypha, an eerily familiar religious cult whose converts are given terrorist training.
THE GREEN RIPPER is the most brutal and suspenseful outing of McGee's career, and we find a different kind of "knight errant" emerging from its savagery.
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An all time great.......2007-10-11
John D. MacDonald is arguably one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, and the Travis McGee series certainly proves why. His ability to transport the reader to another time and place with just a few short lines is uncanny, and isn't that what escapism fiction is all about? Green Ripper is one of my personal favorites, and I have purchased many different editions over the years as I always seem to be loaning out copies that never make their way back home to me. MacDonald is superb, McGee is immortal, and the Green Ripper is one of the best.
McGee as Bond.......2007-09-02
Not my familiar McGee guy. But I did like his honest assessment of what a tackiness the dated Busted Flush seemed to be taking on as time was marching on and the lessened fulfillment of the lifestyle he was living as he was growing older. However one distressing aspect of the later MacDonald books is that he was becoming affected by the toehold that "political correctness" (though not the stranglehold of nowadays) was starting to have on the times and unconsciously reflected in all thought, word and deed. The appeal of the MacDonald books was the astonishing lack of political correctness to get a real picture of what was what instead of what should be what according to who lately is demanding it be so.
Just McGee's luck that in the late 70's women were coming into their career minded age and the house husband and Mr. Mom were getting to be the thing. Perhaps McGee could have lived in retirement with his new glamourous, successful, determined wife eventually pulling down some serious K for the rent and groceries and then he could ride off into the sunset as a permanent adolescent that would be fun for the kids he would be staying home taking care of. All except that she gets killed and then the plans change again and after settling that score he gets to return to his former lifestyle after that silly moment of thinking about moving on.
I'm not sure why McDonald didn't make this a separate book with new central character. It doesn't really fit the series and I wouldn't have bought this book had I known how far removed it was from the other books both in geography and appeal of the story. I much prefer the McGee who was in the small stakes salvage business and not trying to save the world.
An Interesting Idea.......2006-03-23
At one point towards the beginning of this novel one of the characters draws a pointed contrast: one the one hand we have so-called ordinary murders, committed by individuals against other individuals for the usual motives of greed, lust, and jealousy; on the other hand there are political assassinations, the byproduct of larger forces which transcend individual lives. How can the private-eye genre, which is rooted in the world of individual guilt and responsibility, come to terms with political murder? The Green Ripper works through this problem in mostly gripping fashion. For another take on the same theme, see any novel written by Mickey Spillane between 1950 and 1970.
Not Typical of the Series, But One of the Best.......2005-09-20
The Travis McGees are jewels of economical writing (with some forgivable moralizing and preaching from the hero from time to time that judicious readers will learn to skip after a few books), and I've read and enjoyed them all. This episode is out of the ordinary. Usually, as Travis takes on one of his "salvage" operations, he's mostly a private eye poking into a mystery that demands, once or twice, that he face a violent confrontation.
"The Green Ripper" is instead a novel of revenge and combat, and a very satisfying one. McGee functions more as the violent hero of a thriller in this one, and he makes an estimable hero. The book is one of his final exploits, and the McGee of this novel (and of the final book, "The Lonely Silver Rain"), is more melancholy and brooding than the more upbeat Travis of the early novels. Here, it fits: McGee wants nothing but revenge, and finds it.
My recommendation is to read the McGee books in order. They're worth savoring, one every few months. By the time you reach "The Green Ripper," you'll appreciate the contrast of this novel's plot.
MacDonald on Terrorism.......2005-07-31
The Green Ripper stands alone. If you are new to the McGee series, start with The Deep Blue Goodbye.
I grew up in the 60's in Ft Lauderdale and knew Bahia Mar well. But I also grew up in Fayetteville NY where John D lived and sold insurance after graduating from Syracuse -- or was it Harvard. Yet somehow I never read him until the 90's. What a treat it has been!
The Green Ripper may be the most important McGee book because of September 11th. Here John D gives us his ideas on terrorism. He gives it a religious basis. He explores its financing and organizational management structure. He gives it an international reach. He explains the psychology of the participants and their training mehtods. He shows the inability of law enforcement to prevent it. Written in 1979, he makes some predictions regarding the future -- that is, now.
Of course, it is a McGee book. Therefore we have a McGee-solution, which he called a Dissat-solution in "A Tan and Sandy Silence", heh. When McGee infiltrates a terrorist training camp, mayhem ensues, putting it mildly.
The book stands alone because of the effect it all has on McGee. Get to know him; read the earlier titles first. Then come to The Green Ripper. The epilogue will be particularly moving.
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