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Brownbeauty123
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Username: Brownbeauty123
Post Number: 2147
Registered: 03-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 - 12:39 pm: | 
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The Coldest Winter Ever, The Sequel
After years of writing, thinking, traveling and creating, Sister Souljah's Coldest Winter Ever sequel will be available in 2008.
Sister Souljah says:
"The sequel I have written will be quite a surprise I think. My readers will have to get their intellectual weight up!"
"I have worked extremely hard to bring this one to the public. I love it. I was completely dedicated to making sure I didn't cheat my millions of readers from hoods, burbs and villages around the world. I am giving you something you can feel, remember, and use in your own lives."
"All credit goes to God for gracing me with the talent and insight. I truly believe God is the greatest author of all times."
http://www.sistersouljah.com/updates.html |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 5929
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 01:06 pm: |
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I'm reading "The Coldest Winter Ever" now. I think Souljah was more successful commanding the first person voice of her protagonist than Sapphire was in "Push"--thought it was weird the way she had herself as a character in her own novel. She veered perilously close to parody--but that is a danger--if I was writing a novel with myself as a character few would recognize the stalwart character on the white horse that I would depict--but it was okay.
The most important part of the book was that--rather than just ghettogothic she tried to weave in a warning and politics, etc. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 5930
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 01:06 pm: |
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By the way, how do y'all reproduce those images here? |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 10925
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 01:48 pm: |
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Hold the presses! We interrupt this program to announce that I agree with Chrishayden's critique of "The Coldest Winter EVer". Everybody raves about this book, but I could never get pass all the literary violations Sista Soulja committed. And the characters were totally unredeemable. 
As for how to create emoticons, chrishayden. Just click on "help/instructions" at the bottom of the page to find out how. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 5936
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 02:45 pm: |
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Cynique, there may be hope for us yet. You notice I said US--heheheheh. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 5937
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 02:47 pm: |
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With regard to Souljah putting herself in the novel it might have been the valor of ignorance--as a first time novelist she did not understand the perils in this course--
Aren't there some writers in the canon who have done this, also? |
Brownbeauty123
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Username: Brownbeauty123
Post Number: 2149
Registered: 03-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 12:34 am: |
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"By the way, how do y'all reproduce those images here?"
Find a picture then right click your mouse,& go to "Save As" so you can save it under Documents on your computer. Next hit the Upload Attactment option on the bottom of the forum page, select "Browse" click on the picture and last hit "Upload" . The picture should appear in the final edit.
That's how I do it. |
Emanuel
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Username: Emanuel
Post Number: 455
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 10:07 am: |
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Chris,
There's one book out there I know of called "Rules for Saying Goodbye" where the author shares the same name as the protagonist. I read somewhere that this is a growing trend because it causes readers to wonder if authors are writing about their own lives or if the work is purely fictional. Check out this review here: http://www.bookpage.com/0706bp/fiction/rules_for_saying_goodbye.html
In the fictional manuscript I'm working on now, I referenced a non-fiction book I wrote but do not mention my own name. But I guess writing yourself in the book is no different than someone playing himself in a movie. In fact, this would probably guarantee a role in a movie if a book was optioned. |
Schakspir
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Username: Schakspir
Post Number: 1202
Registered: 12-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 21, 2007 - 10:10 pm: |
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The Coldest Winter Ever I found oddly depressing. I guess the overwhelming sense of futility, underlining the narrative--the emptiness/futility of flashy material accoutrements--left me with a bad taste in my mouth, and in that sense, the novel achieved exactly what it should have. Winter, in struggling to maintain a flashy lifestyle as her entire world was crumbling around her, kept digging a deeper and deeper hole for herself. The tragic thing was that she dug her deepest hole just when she imagined that she'd dug her way out. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 10943
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 22, 2007 - 01:44 pm: |
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Good thumbnail review of "The Coldest Wnter Ever". I read it over 5 years ago and you reminded me of what I had against this book. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 9756
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 22, 2007 - 07:06 pm: |
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Schakspir,
*Daps* on your apt description of Winter. I wonder, though, whether most those who read the book so enjoyed its drama that they missed the MORAL of story. |
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