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Summary: Too many controversial subjects for one book
Review: Writing a book is one way of expressing your feelings particularly about things that gripe you. Author Welch-Tyson seems to have a gripe about almost everything and plays out her feelings in the personalities of her characters, most notably Aletha (a very uncomplementary composite of an Oprah Winfrey-like character). Unfortunately, all of the African-American women (except for Desiree who is married to a Jew), seem to be unrealistic and emotionally unstable. Ms. Welch-Tyson will undoubtedly offend many readers with her overly decriptive references to skin-color, hair texture, social position, and illegitimacy. I feel this book tried to cover too many controversial subjects. Christmas at the Brown's was somewhat ridiculous, but still amusing. The murder on the talk show was just plain ridiculous and very unnecssary.
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Summary: Very entertaining
Review: Three stars? oh give me a break!! This was a great book!! It kept you guess and was funny as heck!
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Summary: a self help novel
Review: Each time that I read Gingersnaps, I find it has helped me with my relationships. Share it with a friend.
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Summary: Not So Ginger
Review: The book's review promises hilarity, and you find that in the first two pages. But after that...the book just seemed a soap-box for espousing TOO many philosophies about life and relationships- something that should be saved for a non-fiction book. On the one hand, DWT broadened horizons beyond the usual black-only male/female relationships. Many of the thoughts expressed about race were what we think in reality, but don't talk freely about. However, the end was SO unrealistic! How did Aletha finally win the award, after a man had been killed on the show? Why didn't we get to see Louise- the ex nun, develop pre/post confession? Why is it that Reggie popped back up at the end of the book, having finished his new novel? AND, what was up with Desiree's short story? I mean, you get the gist of why she wrote the story, but why would the author decide to make that the epilogue?! The final words of the novel tell you "they all lived happily ever after", but I would like to have actually SEEN the characters transform, as opposed to a general summary. It seems that DWT tired of writing and the book, and stopped, just to have an ending. I recommend the book for it's varying views, but it's not one to leave you smiling or laughing.
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Summary: This book is awful
Review: This is one of the worst books I've read recently. The characters are so one dimensional and offensive, I don't see how the author could stand them long enough to write the book. Only Althea and Desiree have some basis in reality, although Althea is little too selfish and Desiree is a little too perfect. Don't waste your money on this book!
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Summary: I really hated it
Review: I really could'nt get into this novel, I only finished it because I started it. The characters were unrealist and boring except for maybe Veronica and her crazy famliy. To me this book was a waste of my time.
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Summary: Don't waste your time or your money
Review: The novel was interesting enough to find out what the over-the-edge characters would do next. However, the women, except Desiree, were mean, stupid, and/or unrealistic. We all know women that exhibit negative traits, but that's because no one is perfect. What's more, no one seemed able have a decent relationship with a Black man (unless the Black man was with a White woman). Instead the only positive relationships were made up of interracial couples. In fact the only Black male relationship explored was with a Black gay male who was involved with a man of mixed heritage. Not even he could have a relationship with an African American person, male or female. In my opinion, the author has major issues with Black women, and she may be a little color struck as well.
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Summary: Not that bad
Review: Gingersnaps was a ok first novel for D.W.T. I found the book interesting BUT there were a few problems. Too many characters. The focus should have been just Aletha & Desiree. There was not enough character development on Veronica(which would have been nice). I didn't like the way her boyfriend just walked out on her. Another problem was Louise. It seems that Louise was just thrown in the book without any real background on her. That whole ex-nun thing was confusing to me. If Delorys would just stick to one or two characters and develop them, then her next book will be a 5 star novel
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Summary: The Book Was Pretty Darn Bad!
Review: Actually, it was atrocious. I don't think I need to say much, because most of the other reviews hit on everything that's bad about the book: too many characters, only two of which are paid enough attention to; making Black women into caricatures to drive home the author's point of finding happiness in a relationship with someone of another race; using outlandish adjectives to describe the most common things, just to name a few. And what was with the author's obsession with Jews? All of the characters were unrealistic. Aletha is the only one I can buy, because she was a celebrity, so I could see her being that self-absorbed and expecting things to always go her way. But Desiree is just so PERFECT! Just because she's a psychologist, and married to a Jewish man? Get real! Marrying outside of your race does not guarantee marital bliss anymore than marrying someone of the same race does. I was pretty interested in Veronica's story, but the author left us hanging. Debra was absolutely ridiculous, and I can't tell if Tyson was implying that her negative experiences with Black men had driven her to lesbianism, or if she was just in such denial that she kept dating men even though she really liked women. Either way, that character looked like a total idiot, and Tyson did a bang-up job of offending lesbians, Black men, and Black women in one fell swoop. Janeen and Louise were both pretty minimal characters, and just plain stupid. Too stupid for me to even waste time writing about. Here's what I got out of reading Gingersnaps: psychologists, Jewish MEN, and people in interracial relationships have got their stuff together. The rest of us, particularly Black women who want to be in relationships with Black men, are just crazy.
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Summary: GINGERCRAPS
Review: GINGERSNAPS was an ok book and it kept the flow going, but the closer to the end of the novel, the pace sped up so quickly and so many characters were inserted at one time, it seemed unfair to the reader and to the characters that didn't get their fair share of the spotlight. Characters, I might add, that deserved more than others. Overall, I hope that her second novel has more consistancy in pacing and characters than this debut novel.
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