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Title

B-Boy Blues (A B-Boy Blues Novel #1)

Author

James Earl Hardy

Publisher

Alyson Publications

Pub. Date

Nov 1, 1994

Format

Paperback

Language

English

ISBN-10

1555832687

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I was left wanting something more
A reviewer, UC Berkeley Student, 03/15/2006

The concept was great, but I feel like the goal wasn't reached. I wanted to see something a little more real, I also wanted to see more fight from Mitchell. I think this is a great book for someone looking in on this type of issue, or life but as a gay black man I was left unfullfilled, and felt dry. But I do still applaud it's appearnce on shelfs.
A Seriosuly Un-Funny Mess
A reviewer (kaoticldn@yahoo.co.uk) , a lover of black gay fiction, 09/28/2005

This is the first in Hardy's seemingly endless B-Boy Blues soap opera, and it's all downhill from here. Hardy's style of writing is simplistic, at times reading like a sanctimonious sermon, and grates on the nerves. Hardy wants his novels to be read by black gay men, but his dumbed-down style reeks of talking down to that group, rather like an all-knowing teacher to a class of children. His characters are, without exception, obnoxious, arrogant, rude and wholly unappealing. Of the two leads, Raheim is painted as a blue collar stud who speaks in monosyllables. Contrary to the widely held view that he uses the middle-class Mitchell, the reverse is true. Mitchell - surely the most conservative, xenophobic, self-important character ever portrayed in literary fition - uses Raheim as a bit of blue collar meat to parade before his equally big-headed friends. B-Boy Blues is a cringe worthy - and sometimes nasty - portrait of selfish self-serving gay men, complete with a bitter dose of class snobbery and reverse racism.

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