Customer Reviews

Bebe's By Golly Wow

5 star:		(25)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

I tried to give Y.J. a chance but it looks like it just won't work. I thought 'He Say, She Say' was slow and silly and I didn't enjoy it at all but I give all authors a second chance to show their growth. Unfortunately, Y.J. has not exhibited any learned lessons from her first novel. Actually, I think 'Bebe...' is worse. I can't even finish it. The storyline is silly and the characters are unbelievably childish(Bebe...a 40 year old woman, yeah right!). I especially hate her version of a 13 year old girl. Can she please get a clue...'and what not?' Sorry Y.J., I can't waste anymore time or money on your books.

I really wanted to give this book a try because I read "He Say, She Say." What a waste--I had to look at the back cover thirty times because I couldn't believe Ms. Joe is a Yale graduate. I don't want to hate on her, because I am an aspiring writer myself, but this book lacks intelligence, the slang is cliche, and the characters are stereotypes, to me. It seemed rushed.

I am sorry to say that this book seemed to be very unrealistic. I can usually give a book a benefit of the doubt, but I could not even get halfway thru the book. The slang and the characters profiles were extremely over-exaggerated. I know it is fiction, but she was very redundant with her slang, using it unecessarily which made it hard for the book to flow. It seemed like she was trying to hard to give the characters character. This was the first book that I attempted to read by her. Bad first impression. I will have to give her other books a try.

I read this book several weeks ago, and I'm still mad that I spent any time on it at all. This is one of the worst books I have read in years. I find it hard to believe that there could be such shallow people in the world as are portrayed by these characters. The title character is supposed to be a mature woman, yet she apparently spends nearly all her time thinking about CDs, cars, clothing, and other material things. It reminds me of what a not-very mature 12 year old girl would think an adult woman is like. Where is the soul in these people? I find it truly frightening if the average American reader is led to believe that this type of trivial, media-brainwashed pap is what the average black woman thinks and feels on an ongoing basis.

This got 5 stars??? I found this book to be so juvenille-- so insulting-- that i had a difficult time finishing it. Don't get me wrong- Yolanda Joe does have a story to tell. Unfortunately, she relies so heavily on hackneyed expressions, nonsense words and phrases ("fa-fa- fierce") and "urban slang" that its difficult to determine what she's actually trying to say. Unfortunately, Joe's book is yet one more addition to the "bubblegum" black fiction genre.

This is another in the long line of awful black novels that have been released this year which contribute to the over-all marginalization of black literary standards. Where was the editor in the creation of these books? It's a sin against the trees that had to die to print this stuff.

And it's this book. I read He Say, She Say by the author. I got it as a gift, I figured no harm no foul. I BOUGHT this book, shame on me. The "slang" used in this book reminds me of how whites used to write blacksplotation movies, and sit-coms back in the '70's. Who talks like this? What 40 year old woman is this dumb? The ending was just plain stupid. This book is just straight up corny, and a waste of time.

This is one of the funniest books I have EVER read (and I read about 4 books a week).

Bebe is first introduced in He Say, She Say and is in the funniest scenes in that book - but she is the focus in Bebe's By Golly Wow.

Dash the teenage daughter is a HOOT.

Ms. Joe is extremely talented. She's nice too as I emailed her and received a fast, gracious response. Let's give her the noteriety she deserves.

I started reading this book last week and I have already skipped several paragraphs. I am usually a fast reader, but this one is just really hard to read. The language is overly trivial and repetitive. I don't think I will be able to finish reading the book. I am sure it's a great story, but the language used made it too hard for me.

Was the author in a hurry to get this one done? I just felt rushed through this. I didn't get any background on Issac and his wife until she showed up. Issac who is gun shy takes a liking to BeBe and it's off to the races. The subplot with Sandy and her job was confusing to say the least. I didn't see where it needed to be in there at all. And since Dash was given an important part in the book - the relationship hinged on her acceptance - why wasn't Dash more defined? Better luck next time. Peace and love, Breezee