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Ride or Die with your man!!!
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Awesome Urban Tale of Love and Betrayal
Is You With Me?
A Page Turner!

Ride or Die
Solomon Jones
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
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Pipe Dream: A Novel (Strivers Row)
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ASIN: 0312306164

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Seventeen-year-old Keisha is the beautiful, sheltered daugh-ter of an activist pastor with a checkered past. Handsome, am-bitious Jamal-a street-savvy crack dealer-is the son of a North Philly drug kingpin. When Keisha's father sets his sights on driving crack from the neighborhood, there's just one problem: Keisha and Jamal are in love. When the families face off on opposite sides of an anti-drug demonstration, a high-ranking police official is killed in the crossfire, and Jamal becomes the prime suspect in the murder. Keisha is left with a choice. Will she stay with her father, in the confines of the sheltered world she's known, or will she venture into the un-known in order to help Jamal clear his name? She chooses Jamal, and in a whirlwind flight across the seamy underside of Philadelphia, Keisha will risk everything for love. Even her life.

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Ride or Die with your man!!!.......2006-07-21

After reading Mr. Jones first book Pipe Dreams, I was hooked. I checked out Ride or Die from my school Library and WHOA what a ride this book was. Meet Keisha Anderson, daughter of a preacher named John Anderson,who pays more attention to his church members than he does to his family. Keisha's mother doesn't give her any attention either. Then comes Jamaal Nichols, black as tar with long dreds, son of Frank Nichols, the drug kingpin that was once like a brother to John Anderson before murdering his father and taking over his drug empire. Jamal and Keisha met when they were kinds and renunited but this time it was no puppy love. Jamal loved her so much he disobeyed his father and Keisha left her family to ride with the man she loved. Jamal is accused of killing the police commissioner so they were on the run. From carjacking to murder Keisha and Jamal will do anything to outrun the cops. They were gonna ride together or die trying. This story has SOOOOOOOO mant twists and turns it will have you on the edge of your seat gripping the book. I read it in one day!! Cop it NOW!!!

I'm a Ride or Die Chick!!!!!.......2006-03-04

As everyone can see I'm still playing catch up with Mr. Jones' books and even though I'm reading them out of order I'm nonetheless still enjoying every minute of it. In Ride or Die, Mr. Jones introduces us to Keisha and Jamal two lovers on the run from their fathers, who are sworn enemies and from the police who somehow think that Jamal is responsible for the Police Commissioner's murder.

This story jumps right off the pages as Jamal attempts to elude the entire Philadelphia police force with only the help of his boo Keisha who proves that she knows the true definition of Ride or Die. Ride or Die is full of unexpected plot twists which really drives this story and will keep readers on the edge of their seats until it reaches it's shocking conclusion.

Awesome Urban Tale of Love and Betrayal.......2005-07-28

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Keisha is the daughter of a prominent North Philly pastor, Jamal is the son of a local drug Street figure. Keisha and Jamal have loved each other since they met on a playground when they were kids.

The game of cat and mouse begins when Jamal's father attempts to use his son as a hit man to kidnap and kill the pastor's daughter. During an anti-drug rally, a city official winds up shot to death and Jamal becomes the primary suspect. He and Keisha then become unwitting fugitives in a race against time, managing to stay one step ahead of the police as Jamal attempts to clear his name.

Solomon Jones takes his readers on a roller coaster ride, probing into the depths of crack houses, prostitution, addiction and despair. Yet in spite of the bleak scenarios that he has painted cleverly using Philadelphia as his backdrop, he has created characters that are believable - characters that you can both empathize with and loathe simultaneously.

"Ride or Die" take the darker side of Philly and thrusts it into the streetlight of reality. This is a modern day love story with as many twists and turns as there are pages, coming to an unpredictable conclusion.

This book is definitely worth the read.

Is You With Me?.......2005-01-14

Ride or Die: You either ride with me or die trying. That is Keisha Anderson and Jamal Nichol's motto. She is a PK - preacher's kid -- and he is a drug lord's son. They met years ago when they were pre-teens and experienced puppy love, now they are experimenting with the real thing - true love. Their fathers, John Anderson and Frank Nichols were friends, in fact they were even like brothers, but something happened. Something drove a wedge between them and they have spent the past umpteen years in rivalry.

Someone attempts to rape Keisha and her knight in shining armor, Jamal, saves the day. She tells her father about the incident and he becomes livid. The same evening, an attempt is made on John's life, but someone else dies, and he believes Frank has something to do with both incidents and stages a protest outside of his bar. The protest turns violent when a stray bullet, intended for John, hits the police commissioner and kills him. Not to mention, Keisha is kidnapped. Someone has to pay and Jamal is the chosen fall guy.

Detective Kevin Lynch is back; he was first introduced in The Bridge. His job is to solve the homicide of the police commissioner and other crimes which occurred as a domino effect of the protest. Jamal is running for his innocence and Keisha is with him. The question is: was she really kidnapped or is she a willing participant? In the midst of all the chaos, family secrets are unveiled. The saints are more like devils in sheep's clothing.

Jones gives you high speed chases, carjackings, shooting sprees and all the while, makes you feel as though you're front and center for each of the crimes, with his elaborate details. That man can tell a story and always amazes you with an "Aww hell naw" ending. But I must admit, unlike the other two novels, I figured this one out. That won't guarantee the next reader will. Ride or Die is drama/mystery/romance at its best. Okay, what's next Jones? Bring it on `cause I'm aching for another good read.

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A Page Turner!.......2004-12-05

This is the second book I've read from Jones and I like the way he weaves a story. This was intense. A full plot with high energy.A wonderful tale.Give me more Mr. Jones.I loved the end.A page turning urban drama.
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Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause

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The definitive book on the film.
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An excellent view behind the scene of a classic!

Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause
Lawrence Frascella , and Al Weisel
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The revolutionary film Rebel Without a Cause has had a profound impact on both moviemaking and youth culture -- not only upon its 1955 release but on generations since. In Live Fast, Die Young, the complete story behind this groundbreaking film is revealed, vividly evoking the cataclysmic meeting of actors James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo and director Nicholas Ray -- all at crucial points in their careers as they grappled with fame, burgeoning sexuality, and increasingly reckless behavior.

Through interviews with surviving members of the cast and crew and firsthand access to both personal and studio archives, Lawrence Frascella and Al Weisel depict the explosive making of Rebel Without a Cause, complete with never-before-seen photos by famed Dean photographer Dennis Stock. A fascinating look behind the scenes of an unforgettable American film, Live Fast, Die Young tells a story that is as provocative as the film itself.

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"When it was released in 1955, the film Rebel Without a Cause had a revolutionary impact on moviemaking and youth culture, virtually giving birth to our concept of the American teenager. For the first time, Live Fast, Die Young tells the complete story of the explosive making of Rebel, a film that has rocked every generation since its release. Set against a backdrop of the Atomic Age and an old Hollywood studio system on the verge of collapse, it vividly evokes the cataclysmic, immensely influential meeting of four of Hollywood's most passionate artists. When James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, and director Nicholas Ray converged, each was at a crucial point in his or her career. The young actors were grappling with fame, their burgeoning sexuality, and increasingly reckless behavior. As Ray engaged his cast in physical melees and psychosexual seductions of startling intensity, the on- and off-set relationships between his ambitious young actors ignited, sending a shock wave through the film. Through interviews with the surviving members of the cast and crew and firsthand access to both personal and studio archives, Lawrence Frascella and Al Weisel reveal Rebel's true drama -- the director's affair with sixteen-year-old Wood, his tempestuous ""spiritual marriage"" with Dean, and his role in awakening the latent homosexuality of Mineo, who would become the first gay teenager to appear on film. Complete with photographs, Live Fast, Die Young tells the absorbing inside story of an unforgettable and absolutely essential American film -- a story that is, in many ways, as provocative as the film itself. "

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The definitive book on the film........2006-12-12

Rebel Without a Cause almost defined what teenagers were supposed to be when it appeared in the middle 1950. Here was the complete antithesis of the Father Knows Best type of show. It featured three young starts that seemed destined for greatness: Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, and James Dean. Strangely enough, all three of them died, quite young, and not by natural causes.

This book is about the making of that movie. It features interviews with the surviving members of the cast and crew and the authors had firsthand access to both personal and studio archives.

This is a rather remarkable book in that it was written so long after the film. It reads like the authors knew and were involved with the people making the movie it tells an extraordinary story. It's very well done, so far as I am concerned, the definitive film on the movie.

The Definitive Rebel Book, Now and Forever.......2006-05-26

I want to start my review out by saying that I seriously doubt that there will ever be another book like this on Rebel Without A Cause. There certainly hasn't been anything like it in the past.This classic film deserves a book like this and I'm surprised that one was so long in coming.This book is exhaustively researched. Every detail of Rebel from its conception to its filming to its release to its cultural impact is detailed. New interviews with surviving cast and crew members added depth and perspective.The films 3 main stars-James, Natalie and Sal , And Director Nick Ray's experiences making the film are also recounted along with a Chapter each about their lives and fates after Rebel, but the portraits of them are not super deep with perhaps the exception being Nick Ray. The book is more about the evolution and the ultimate impact of Rebel than about the Actors themselves.
The one complaint I have about this book is that at times I think it relied too much on unproven sensationalism about James Dean. Particularly a passage in which an Actor claims that James and Jack Simmons were hitting on him, but what sounded like a perfect innocent invitation to visit the house they were living in to me.
But this is a book that should be on any Rebel fans bookshelf.

Close to the Knives.......2006-03-29

I loved reading this book, for most of the reasons outlined by the other reviewers. The organization is superb, breaking down the wealth of material into discrete units, sometimes arranged by theme, sometimes by a central event. The intelligence of the sorting out leads to a greater understanding of the events portrayed in the book, from the inception of the general idea (to make a picture about teenagers, then a new subject for film) all the way to the ongoing and continuing myth of REBEL.

One thing leads to another, organically speaking. The book convinces me that the central mainspring of the success of REBEL was not, perhaps, James Dean, but Natalie Wood, desperate to prove she wasn't a child any longer, throwing herself at director Nicholas Ray who, in a crazy display of grand seigneurial privilege, took her as his lover. Was Wood feeling any sexual excitement in this union, or was she just trying to get back at her horrible mother, Maria Gurdin? Ever since Suzanne Finstad's biography of Wood revealed this affair with Nick Ray, together with the story of Wood being raped by a still-living Hollywood leading man, it's hard to look at REBEL without thinking of Judy as the victim of sexual abuse "acting out" her fantasies of sexual liberation and pleasure, but not able to really get any for herself.

I appreciated the care the authors took in interviewing just about everyone connected to the movie, including the gang members, some of whom you hardly notice in the movie. But as it happens, and I wonder if someday the extra footage will turn up, many of the gang members had bigger scenes with lots of dialogue, when the shooting started Warners wasn't going to pay for anything but black and white, and then a third of the way through they decided to scrap the b/w footage and go with color. They threw the baby out with the bathwater in this one, for wouldn't you like to see that black and white material? Wonder where it is now? The authors tracked down Steffi Sidney, who was sort of the Tori Spelling of her day in that her dad was a well known Hollywood institution who managed to get her jobs just by laying down the hammer. He wasn't a producer like Aaron Spelling, but even more fearsome, one of LA's top gossip columnists, a man called Sidney Skolsky. Steffi is particularly observant about the day to day shooting of REBEL, and her pointed comments are always trenchant and super-funny.

I hear today in the news that Warners has unearthed test footage of Marlon Brando playing scenes from a version of REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE that never got made, seven or eight years before the present one! And that they will be issuing this screentest as an extra to the DVD of STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE! I bet the authors of LIVE FAST, DIE YOUNG are kicking themselves that they didn't get to view this footage--indeed they don't seem to have been aware such a test even existed, or that the movie was almost made in 1948! Otherwise they are an omniscient pair indeed.

Best of the Best.......2006-03-11

This is a wonderfully detailed yet easy to read account of the making of "Rebel Without a Cause." The authors did their homework and did a superb job of compiling the information into an interesting story. No matter if you're a fan of James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, you'll be rewarded with a glimpse behind the camera at how it all came together. A must read for fans of the stars, director, the film itself or film students in general.

An excellent view behind the scene of a classic!.......2006-01-15

Wow! And what a view! If you are a Rebel Without a Cause fan, this book is for you! The first book that deals in depth with all the people behind the making of the movie, their weaknesses, strengths, motives, ideals, faulty patterns, games, it all comes out. Well written & tactfully done, you gotta smile when you read this one. It rounds out all the gray areas of Rebel & the now famous people that were a part of it. Lengthy, detailed, prudent & tactful, still an exciting read that I found very hard to put down. Gives some of the personal motivation behind decisions & fleshes out the actors that were so dynamic & bold for their time. No rock is left unturned and you feel "full" after ingesting it. For those of you who are new to Dean & those of us who are still yearning to learn about him, this book is an indispensable gem & a classic, already. 5 stars for a real dynamic beauty of a book.

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Cosma cuts weight & cost & improves the ride: Cosma thinks it has a new, less expensive way to manufacture body, chassis and suspension components, along ... article from: Automotive Design & Production
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Ride Out and Die
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Ride Fast Or Die.(food industry logistics)(Brief Article): An article from: Food Logistics
Dr. James A. Tompkins
Manufacturer: Cygnus Business Media
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY - Volume 20, number 9 - September Sept 1975: Quicker Than the Eye; A Small Death; A Look at Mother Nature; Gourmet; Home Ground; Gut Level; Out in Style; The Lyon Died; A Game Way to Die; The Garage Apartment; Come Ride With Me

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ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY - Volume 20, number 9 - September Sept 1975: Quicker Than the Eye; A Small Death; A Look at Mother Nature; Gourmet; Home Ground; Gut Level; Out in Style; The Lyon Died; A Game Way to Die; The Garage Apartment; Come Ride With Me
Ernest M. (editor) (Bill Pronzini; Michael Kurland; Stephen Wasylyk; Frank Sisk; Vincent McConnor; A. F. Oreshnik; Sonord Morrow; Robert H. Curtis; Pauline C. Smith; William P. Noble; Joyce Harrington; Donald Honig) Hutter
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Ride or Die
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