Got to be Real: Four Original Love Stories
by Eric Jerome Dickey, Colin Channer (Contributor), E. Lynn Harris (Contributor), Marcus Major (Contributor)
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New York Times best-selling authors E. Lynn Harris and Eric Jerome Dickey, and Blackboard best-selling authors Colin Channer and Marcus Major have joined forces in Got to Be Real, a compilation of fresh, funny, and honest love stories. Each one is a unique look at love in the modern, urban age. Harris' leading man faces one of his greatest fears with a Valentine's gift that could change his life forever. Dickey takes readers on a trip south of the border that leads to a steamy relationship show more where race and a language barrier creates no deterrent. Jamaica is the hot spot where Channer weaves his titillating tale of people in the music industry. A certified womanizer meets his match in Major's provocative story set in Philadelphia. These four popular African-American writers have put together a treasury of stories that is as sexy and entertaining as it is candid and thought-provoking. show lessTags
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"Kenya and Amir" was kinda lame, notably the ending.
We should continue to put up with this disrespect...? Why?
"Cafe Piel" was fairly predictable and Bobby's obsession with his bosses' mistress
went on way too long. Maybe in the year 2000, the sexual tease language was innovative,
now it feels overdrawn and boring.
"I'm Still Waiting" also overplays the F.
Story morphs through boring music recording industry interactions interwoven
with compelling and evocative descriptions of Jamaica.
If only the characters and the romance had been the same.
"Money Can't Buy Me Love" was definitely the most fun to read,
with actual suspense as the professor and the escort gravitate in unusual ways.
We should continue to put up with this disrespect...? Why?
"Cafe Piel" was fairly predictable and Bobby's obsession with his bosses' mistress
went on way too long. Maybe in the year 2000, the sexual tease language was innovative,
now it feels overdrawn and boring.
"I'm Still Waiting" also overplays the F.
Story morphs through boring music recording industry interactions interwoven
with compelling and evocative descriptions of Jamaica.
If only the characters and the romance had been the same.
"Money Can't Buy Me Love" was definitely the most fun to read,
with actual suspense as the professor and the escort gravitate in unusual ways.
I did not like Eric Jerome Dickey's story at all. This wasn't his best work. “Cafe Piel” is about forbidden love, but it was slow, and very, very dull and lacked substance and I had to really struggle to finish. I couldn't grasp what was going on and the storyline was all over the place, but no matter what I’m still one of his fans.
The only story I really enjoyed was Marcus Major's story. “Kenya and Amir” was the best story in the book. This story felt real. The stories love scenes were great… EXCELLENT!!! Marcus Major’s story introduces two characters in “Good Peoples” tha t I will be reading soon, then I’ll read “4 Guys and Trouble”.
E. Lynn’s story “Money Can’t Buy Me Love” was typical. His story was show more fair. It was hard to absorb after reading Marcus Major’s “Kenya and Amir” with a heterosexual theme.
The last story in this book is by Colin Channer and I just couldn't get into this story and it was long and boring! “I’m Still Waiting” was going nowhere. I attempted to read “Satisfy My Soul" by Mr. Channer some time ago and struggled through the first few chapters until I couldn’t stand it and had to put it down.
It took me 12 long weeks to read the entire book. I was disappointed. show less
The only story I really enjoyed was Marcus Major's story. “Kenya and Amir” was the best story in the book. This story felt real. The stories love scenes were great… EXCELLENT!!! Marcus Major’s story introduces two characters in “Good Peoples” tha t I will be reading soon, then I’ll read “4 Guys and Trouble”.
E. Lynn’s story “Money Can’t Buy Me Love” was typical. His story was show more fair. It was hard to absorb after reading Marcus Major’s “Kenya and Amir” with a heterosexual theme.
The last story in this book is by Colin Channer and I just couldn't get into this story and it was long and boring! “I’m Still Waiting” was going nowhere. I attempted to read “Satisfy My Soul" by Mr. Channer some time ago and struggled through the first few chapters until I couldn’t stand it and had to put it down.
It took me 12 long weeks to read the entire book. I was disappointed. show less
It was an okay read.
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Eric Jerome Dickey lives in California. Eric Jerome Dickey was born in Memphis, Tennessee on July 7, 1961. He received a degree in computer system technology from the University of Memphis. In 1983, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked in the aerospace industry as a software developer. Soon after starting his job, he decided to become an actor show more and a stand-up comedian, which eventually lead him to a writing career. He attended UCLA's Creative Writing classes and in 1994, his short story Thirteen appeared in the IBWA's River Crossing: Voices of the Diaspora - An Anthology of the International Black Experience. His first novel was Sister, Sister was published in 1996. His other books include Milk in My Coffee; Liar's Game; Chasing Destiny; Between Lovers; Thieves' Paradise; The Other Woman; Sleeping with Strangers; Waking with Enemies; An Accidental Affair; and The Business of Lovers. He wrote over 30 novels, novellas, and short stories. His last book, The Son of Mr. Suleman is due to be published in April 2021. He received the awards for Best Contemporary Fiction and Author of the Year (Male) at the 2006 African American Literary Award Show. Eric Jerome Dickey died on January 3, 2021 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 59. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Born in Flint, Michigan and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, E. Lynn Harris graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1977, earning a degree in journalism with honors. After college, Harris sold computers for IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and AT&T for 13 years before quitting his job to write his first novel. The resulting book, show more Invisible Life, was self-published in 1992 and sold mostly at beauty salons and black-owned bookstores. After being published in trade paperback by Anchor Books, Invisible Life became the #1 book on the Blackboard Bestseller List of African-American Titles and spent a total of 25 consecutive months on the list. Harris was an openly gay African American and was best known for his depictions of African American men on the down low or in the closet. He won numerous awards for his work including two Novel of the Year Prizes by the Blackboard African-American Bestsellers, Inc. for Just As I Am and Any Way the Wind Blows, the James Baldwin Award for Literary Excellence for If This World Were Mine, and the Lambda Literary Award for the anthology Freedom in This Village. His other books include And This Too Shall Pass; Abide with Me; Not a Day Goes By; A Love of My Own; I Say a Little Prayer; What Becomes of the Brokenhearted; Just Too Good to Be True, and Basketball Jones. His work also appeared in American Visions, Essence, Washington Post Sunday Magazine, Sports Illustrated and the award-winning anthology Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America. He died on July 23, 2009 at the age of 54. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
A former middle school teacher, Marcus Major is the author of "Good Peoples", which debuted at #4 on the Blackboard bestseller list & was included in Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers program. He lives in southern New Jersey. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Original title
- Got to be Real {Anthology}
- Alternate titles
- Got to be Real : four original love stories
- Original publication date
- 2000
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- Fiction and Literature, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813.540803543 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999 Anthologies of American fiction of the late 20th century
- LCC
- PS647 .A35 .G68 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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