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Grace After Midnight: A Memoir |
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Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.45028092
EAN: 9780446195188
ISBN: 0446195189
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2007-11-01
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
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While Felicia is a brilliant actor in a truly chilling role, what's most remarkable about "Snoop" is what she has overcome in her life. Snoop was born a three-pound cross-eyed crack baby in East Baltimore. Those streets are among the toughest in the world, but Snoop was tougher. The runt of the ghetto showed an early aptitude for drug slinging and violence and thrived as a baby gangsta until she landed in Jessup state penitentiary after killing a woman in self-defense. There she rebelled violently against the system, and it was only through the cosmic intervention of her mentor, Uncle Loney, that she turned her life around. A couple of years ago, Snoop was discovered in a nightclub by one of The Wire's cast members and quickly recruited to be one of television's most frightening and intriguing villians.
While the story of coming up from the hood has been told by Antwone Fisher and Chris Gardner, among others, Snoop's tale goes far deeper into The Life than any previous books. And like Mary Karr's story, Snoop's is a woman's story from a fresh point of view. She defied traditional conventions of gender and sexual preference on the hardest streets in America and she continues to do so in front of millions of viewers on TV.
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Summary: A HARD KNOCK LIFE!!!!!!!
Comment: THIS WAS A GREAT READ!! SNOOP HAD A HARD LIFE BUT SHE NEVER GAVE UP HER STORY WAS DEEP!!
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Summary: Brief, Blunt, & Honest.
Comment: I like this memoir for the pragmatic, unpretentious voice of the author. I wanted more detail, but I was in love with her curt style. I also appreciate how she leaves nearly all judgement and conclusion up to the reader rather than trying to hawk us a heap of saccharine pap (excepting the last two pages, but that's forgiveable). She's not asking to be liked, justified, deified, forgiven, nothing. The story is just told in an endearingly matter-of-fact way. I took off one star for the overall short length. What can I say, I liked it and wanted more!
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Summary: Wired Grace
Comment: I really liked this book. I have been a fan of The Wire since day one and Pearson does a good job on the show. When I found out that she was writing a book I was hesitant. I didn't want to hear confessions of murder and the likes and I wanted to preserve my feelings for the show. I am pleased to say that this book was nothing like I thought it would be. I was captured and held prisoner by this book and I read it in a weekend. You never really know what people have on their hearts and this book is a reminder of that. Pearson had it rough, but still not as rough as some. Pearson at least had people in her life that loved her genuinely and who wanted to see her do good. Mistakes are mistakes and we all pay for them be it in the bricks and mortar of a prison cell or the prison of our minds. I am so glad that she wrote this book and hope that it has helped someone make better choices. I'm not a drug dealer, but it touched me and made me think.
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Summary: VERY GOOD BOOK
Comment: I LOVED THE BOOK.... I LOVE SNOOP. IT WAS VERY GOOD I READ IT IN 2 DAYS...
SNOOP I WILL SEE YOU AROUND.....WINK
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Summary: Bodymore, Murdaland
Comment: Where the boundary lines of art and life intersect stands Snoop. A mind-grabbing account for even the unfamiliar reader becomes riveting to a fan of "THE WIRE". Watching the show I had the feeling Snoop the actress was too authentic to have been strictly portraying a fictional character born in the pages of a script. Her auto-bio piece confirmed what I'd suspected.
Thinking as a fan, I was somewhat disappointed by the books length - who could blame me for wanting to know more? However, the quality of the storytelling, done in the understated manner of many a street player that's secure in who they are and what they've done, gives depth to the words. Making length a non-issue when all is said and done.
Snoop being "discovered" by Michael K. Williams/OMAR the way she was is the ultimate testimony to the philosophy that fate is only the beginning of good fortune. Being in the right place at the right time isn't enough. When the window of opportunity opens you also have to be prepared to jump through -- something Felicia Pearson has done both feet first!
Like a fiend in "Hamsterdam" that picked up the needle, once I started the book I couldn't put it down. Finished it up in one sitting on a Saturday morning. If you decide to pick up this book, don't have plans for a while; you'll be like "Old-Face Andre" or "Little Kevin" were in one of those abandoned buildings... hemmed up with no hope of getting free.
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