What book(s) would you deffinately NOT recomend in a million years?

For me, it would be anything written by Michael Baisdon- That is a bootleg eric jerome dickey if i ever did see one!

Also, omar tryee- can make it past the first few chapters of any of his books

and Kimberla Lawson-Roby. I have never read so much garbage in my entire life. I don't know who told this woman she had a talent for writting cos he books are awful.

For those who read SciFi avoid Stephen Baxter like the bloody plague! Damn that dude is boring.

The Bible

It's ghost written by people who have heard voices, it's full of murder incest and contradictions in story lines, different accounts of the same stories.

It's a part fiction and part historic collection of short stories and memoirs.

Has some useful tips on living. But to much gore and blood.

Dada wrote:
You forgot genocide and mass slaughter, sexism, child sacrifice, religious persecution and promotion of racism and xenophobia.

Reminds me of another forum where the question was about what you think the best invention ever was. Ignoring the obvious things like fire and wheel or iron smelting, I suggested the printing press. It helped spread ideas and influence learning and took literacy away from the elite and clerics and put it into the masses. Possiblyimo the biggest contributor to mass civilization. Another poster retorted "yes but think of the first thing it was used for" [printing the bible] and I had to conceed the point lol

Normally I go to black bookshops but ever noticed in the main big chains the black sections are filled with very dissapointing fare. I'm talking strictly the fiction books here. There seems to be an over saturation of erotica and romance books by the women and way too many gangsta tales by the men. The supposedly adventerous writers seem to be daring and bravely mix the too so we have lots of ghetto/gangster romance stories too. The men's books seem to revolve around dealers who are always succesful and the boss of their particular ghettos. A plague of Nino frikkin Browns living rap video lifestyles, always with a secretly disloyal number two lol. The womens seem to involve characters with impressive sounding titles that seem to earn ridicolously high salarys and seemed forever stressed and anxious but spend very little time of the story at work lol. For such stressed and busy women they do have endless time to natter away about each others lives at expensive lunches when not jetting away to sunny locations.
But the common themes remain the same whatever the settings. Cheating, jealousy, temptation, friendship, loyalty to friends over partners blah blah blah

Where are the modern black writers who break the mould and write about something frikkin else?

Agreed. And with that, I don't recommend any books written by Zane and this book. Why anyone would read this god-awful book is beyond me. There are a few others, like A Dolla Outta Fifteen Cents and Every Thug Needs A Lady, but I don't remember the authors of these books otherwise I'd shout them out for their horrible writing skills and one-dimensional thinking.

It annoys the hell out of me when people say about these books "Well, at least people are reading something." Right..... as if reading about more stereotypes about "us" makes things better.

brovo to thought one and thought 2... as I exposed my son to those same facts and collective of the thoughts.....ie collective .....

Whats weird is the Black authors who are not in the 'Black Section' but in the regular section. Colson Whitehead, Jamaica Kincaid, Andrea Levy, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Diana Evans and Caryl Phillips are in the regular section. Black section is filled Zane, Eric Jerome Dickey, Toni Morrison and Ben Okri. Doesn't make much sense to me.

Avoid Zadie Smith 'On Beauty'. Terrible.

Anything by Mustafa Gadalla.

A self described Egytian who writes books that at first glance seem to be from an African-Centric viewpoint.

But upon closer examination are really promoting the euro-centric view of the ancient world in general and Kemit specifically.

Goldilocks and the three bears, The three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, all have innocent white beings at the mercy of big black beasts. Do not read this muck to your kids, or at least give them the black version

Maybe but it could just be that you see yourself as an animal...lol?

Couldnt say the same for ba ba black sheep though.