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Snoop Dogg (Author), David E. Talbert (Author)
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July 10, 2007 Doggy Tales (Book 1)

Hip-hop megastar Snoop Dogg and award-winning playwright David E. Talbert join forces to bring you the unforgettable saga of an aspiring young rapper who finds himself at several crossroads at once, where everything, including himself, is about to suddenly change.

The year is 1989, Long Beach, California. When Ulysses Jeffries's mother decides to move her family from the drug-infested East Side to what she believes is safer North Long Beach, Ulysses and his little brother Bing are hurled into a world like none they've experienced before. Instead of moving on up, they've just moved on over.

From a classically trained piano-playing gangster named Buddha, to the next-door neighbor, a foster mother turned basehead named Crazy Betty, to Uncle Mike, a freeloading relative who has a knack for showing up when times are good and a knack for leaving just before they turn bad -- these characters and more take you on a journey like never before. With growing conflicts in the streets, and at home with his mother, Bing, and his mother's new live-in boyfriend Harvey, Ulysses is forced to make decisions that will forever alter his life. It's clear that his only chance of survival is through close friends, family, and the music he loves.

Love Don't Live Here No More is the first in a drama-filled series of novels called Doggy Tales that takes readers from the unforgiving streets of Long Beach to the bright lights of show business. The novel also comes with an original single that provides the backdrop to this compelling tale.


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For those even broadly familiar with the details of rapper, actor and now author Dogg's troubled past, this book will read as a thinly-veiled memoir. Dogg's teen protagonist, Ulysses Jeffries, lives in the drug-infested Los Angeles neighborhood of Long Beach in the early 1990s, along with his younger brother Bing and their no-nonsense but loving single mother. When she gets religion, the two turn for attention to a local thug named Buddha, who takes Ulysses in as a kind of protégé. "I didn't have a father or a big brother," he says, "so in a strange way, Buddha became both for me. He had the flyest crib in the neighborhood." Soon his mentor gets him selling drugs on the streets, a trade for which Ulysses has quite a gift. The story is rife with cliché: Ulysses learns the price of gangster life the hard way; begins writing lyrics for raps and escapes a tragic fate through the transformative power of music. Dogg is part storyteller, part preacher, and his innate charm and streetwise wit go a long way in compensating for the otherwise pat plot and stale prose of this debut, the first of an announced trilogy.
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About the Author

Snoop Dogg is a platinum-selling hip-hop artist and a darling of Madison Avenue. A hot Hollywood commodity, he has starred in hit films such as Training Day, Starsky & Hutch, and Baby Boy, and appeared in numerous TV shows, including Saturday Night Live and Chappelle's Show. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

David E. Talbert is a five-time NAACP Award-winning playwright and a bestselling author. Earlier this year, Talbert wrote and coproduced the critically acclaimed NBC special Unpredictable: A Musical Journey for Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx. He is currently at work on his featurefilm directorial debut for Sony/Screen Gems. For more information, visit www.davidetalbert.com.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Atria Books (July 10, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0743273648
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743273640
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,895,776 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Pleasantly surprised, June 9, 2009
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M. A. Devlin (Santa Barbara, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Love Don't Live Here No More: Book One of Doggy Tales (Paperback)
Picked this up at the bargain shelf at a local bookstore for a buck. It was right next to a book that had caught my eye. The other book speaks about growing up in the Chicago projects. I figured, for a dollar, I couldn't go wrong. Glad I went with my judgment. The other book is still here, unread while I tore apart Love Don't Live...

Love Don't Live Here No More reads like a memoir. It was a short, interesting read. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in growing up in the lifestyle that the author speaks of in this biographical novel.

Fans of Snoop Dogg will likely find fault with the fact I only gave this four stars. I felt that for it to receive a full five stars it should have been a bit longer/detailed or sold to the teen audience. It was not quite clear what age group the authors were reaching for.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Waiting for Volume II, October 20, 2008
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S. Foster (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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I think this was a good read. Just not sure how many of Snoop Dogg "rap followers" actually read this book. Non-followers may think it is not a book of their class - too thugged out. I guess this is why I found this book in the bookstore, hardcover, for $5. If marketing would have gone into it, it would easily have become a bestseller. The book is definitely a good easy read and at times, funny as HECK! I loved the characters, especially, sweet Bing, and I could flow with it. I'm just wondering, because, perhaps, of the low sales of this 1st volume, will another come out? The end of the book leaves you hanging. Come on Snoop, at least give the characters a good ending!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Alot better than I thought it would be, March 30, 2008
This review is from: Love Don't Live Here No More: Book One of Doggy Tales (Paperback)
I picked this book up at work one day when a co-worker left it on their desk. I read the whole book in one shift. Its a easy read and the end leaves you wanting more.
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