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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
This book seemed out of time.,
This review is from: The Men of Brewster Place (Hardcover)
I just finished THE MEN OF BREWSTER PLACE YESTERDAY and while I enjoyed some elements of the book, I was also left confused. 1st I saw the film THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE before I read the book. I seemed to me the film was set in the mid to late 1960s. The WOBP novel seemed to be set in that era as well. So with TMOBP I thought it would be set parallel to time of the prior novel, but it appears to be set in the future (mid 1980s w/some flashbacks) but sometimes it did not make sense. For ex. C.C. Baker appeared to be in his late teens in the first book and movie and he is still the same age in this book. If it was set in the 1980s he would be pushing forty years-old maybe. Also some references to crack,AIDS seem more contemporary and the name Hakim was very unusual if he was C.C.'s older stepbrother and the era was the 1960s. I just don't know. Overall the book was not great but it did not suck, I enjoyed TWOBP much,much more.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
What !,
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This review is from: The Men of Brewster Place (Hardcover)
Was Gloria just trying to get a book out to compete with the barrage of fiction being released by black writers or what? She could not have been seriously thinking that this book was of any value.The characters were week. The storylines were not in line with the way they were portrayed in the Women of Brewster Place. I got this book when it first came out. I read it quickly and nearly tossed it down in disgust. I went to the post office and mailed it to my best friend because I wanted to see if I was crazy for thinking it was so bad (but I didn't want her to waste the money herself). I was truly disappointed. I expected so much more from one of my favorite writers of the 80's. I know she can do better because she has on all previous attempts.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
The Italicized Narration of a Dead Guy.,
By Jabberwocky (Elsewhere, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Men of Brewster Place: A Novel (Paperback)
The Men of Brewster Place is in no way better than The Women of Brewster Place; but it is relevant for one reason: it satisfies the curiosity of those who wanted to know the fate of the men who had such serious effects on the women from Gloria Naylor's previous book.Naylor does some backtracking to link the former novel to this one. For someone like myself who just got finished reading The Women of Brewster Place right before this one, the rehashing of dialogue and former events becomes tiresome. I guess it's necessary for those who choose to read this book before its sister novel. The stories of the men are also not as compelling. Ben, the drunk, acts as our narrator. Being the former super, he has some comment about each of the men portrayed. We find out what happened to Basil after he deserted his mother. We find out what happened to Eugene after he deserted Ceil. We find out what happened to Moreland Woods after he deserted Etta. Well, you get the point. There was a lot of desertion going on, which is an all too realistic happening regarding the black family. Each man's story is not necessarily on the same time line as the others. We're shown events that happened before the events in Women...,and some that happen 3 to 10 years after. I think The Women of Brewster was published in 1982 and took place during the same period. The Men...was published long after 1982, and you can tell. There's an awkward blending from the first book to this one that still feels disconnected. I found Eugene's story the most interesting, which is fitting considering he was probably the most despicable character next to CC Baker. You'll find out why he acted the way he did. Bottom line: An average book but necessary for those who wanted more closure after either reading or watching the events affecting the women who lived on Brewster.
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