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Thumper
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Thumper
Post Number: 391
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 04, 2005 - 09:49 pm: | 
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Hello All,
I just finished reading 6 Days in January by William Frederick Cooper. I wasn't pleased. I would have been happier with it if Cooper had stuck to writing about about a man going through the journey of self discovery instead of presenting me with an emasculated man who sounded and acted like a sister-girlfriend heroine than a man going through some serious life changes. The novel is about a man name William, remembering all of the crap he sent himself through being in a relationship with a woman who didn't care nothing about his stupid butt! I got aggravated with William because he did the EXACT same thing that a sister-grilfriend heroine would have done in his place. The man whined throughout the whole damn book. He got on my nerves. The novel could have been so much more if Cooper had stuck with his original premise, a man going through the journey of self-discovery and not try to appease the black female reading audience. What a waste. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1064
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 02:49 pm: |
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Thump:
But what about the public calling for more sensitive types? |
Thumper
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Thumper
Post Number: 392
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 06:10 pm: |
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Hello All,
Chris wrote: "But what about the public calling for more sensitive types?"
What about it? *eyebrow raised* How does having a male character dressed up in female sister-girlfriend clothing equals a sensitive man?
People say a lot of things that they don't really mean. I keep hearing how people are tired of reading the same ol' type of books but the keep buying the same sista girlfriend books. I think it all boils down to these women want their lives to be a fairy tale and their men or not their Prince Charming. The problem with this is that they have a tendency to want to "change" their men into a Prince and not looking at men through real eyes. |
Emanuel
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Username: Emanuel
Post Number: 90
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 11:40 am: |
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Hey Thump,
I think Will purposely did this to attract the African-American female audience. After all, they are the majority when it comes to reading fiction. And we know that books on relationships and street lit are what's selling. I haven't read "6 Days..." but that's my speculation.
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