Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

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Summary: Socrates stands true to his name.
Review: This is the best book I've ever read. If Mosley does any better I guess I'll have to repeat myself.

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Summary: Couldn't Put It Down
Review: This was a quick and easy reader. I finished it in a day. Still the characters were rich with personality and life. Despite his horrific history, I liked Socrates Fortlow and all of the other denizens of his neighborhood. My first, but definitely not my last Moseley novel. Interested to see the movie adaptation.

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Summary: Wonderful!!
Review: Walter Mosely will soon be my favorite novelist if he continues writing thought provoking characters like Socrates Fortlow. We are given a glimse of a man and his thoughts, who has been through emotions that I can't dream of. We loath him, like him and grow to love him in this fasinating story. We only ask one thing of Mosely after this: Give us more Socrates!!!

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Summary: Loved the book...4 1/2 stars..Mosley is great.
Review: Walter Mosley goes beyond Easy Rawlins with Socrates Fortlow an ex-offender, almost streetperson trying to make it in Watts. You can see and feel the anger of Socrates when people sometimes carelessly, sometimes callously disregard and disrespect him because he's old, poor, Black and sometimes just a little crazy. This series of stories made me rethink my own responses to the so called streetpeople I've worked with in a professional capacity with care and understanding of their feelings but calculatingly avoided otherwise. Socrates had his own moral code, his own sense of justice and though he didn't see himself as such, he was a good man.

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Summary: always outnumbered always outgunned
Review: Walter Mosley paints a picture in L.A. for African American Baby Boomers that is right on the mark. One can almost remember Socrates as either a threatning presence in the neighborhood, or know him as a relative that nobody likes to talk about.