Ghetto Supastar | 
 enlarge | Authors: Pras Michel, Ike Benjamin
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 3099296
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0671027301
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780671027308
ASIN: 0671027301
Publication Date: January 1, 1999
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Product Description
In the streets, sometimes the only thing deadlier than a gun is a dream.Diamond is a kid with hopes and dreams, who longs to make a demo that could give him the ways and means to escape the projects of East New York. His rhymes are wrought through sore eyes and a heart of pain as he staggers through an all-too-common life of loss and loneliness. In his determination to reach for the stars, he hardens to letting bygones be bygones, as family and friends end up locked down or face down. The money man Michael, aka Gage, a gangsta wannabe getting in too deep with dangerous people, stealing, dealing, and taking one chance too many... Vietnam veteran Marshall, owner of a recording studio, who makes the ultimate sacrifice for the love of creativity... Sensual, college-bound Tamara, too much in love with Diamond to stop herself from making a big, life-altering mistake... Now from the hood to the happening clubs, from basement recording studios to the Big House, they'll do anything to survive the hype, the betrayals, and the bullets to become a...Ghetto Supastar.
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 A "Diamond" in the rough. May 18, 2001
This book was not as good as I thought it was going to be, but it was not as bad as it could have been. Centering around Diamond St. James, and his struggle to rise above the poverty surrounding him and his mother, by using his talent in rap music to become a star. Offsetting him is best friend, Gage, who has a violent streak in him a mile wide and will use his muscle and malice to gain enough money to keep his friend in rehersal studios until his big break comes. Easily misled by Gage, Diamond sometimes find himself assisting him and his ill-gotten plans to finance his future, and promises himself it will be the last, until the next time the well starts to run dry. The part of the book that was so distracting was the fact that the story was told in various points of view, but you had to read two to five lines before you could figure out who was doing the talking. All in all, a good, quick read.
 This book stinks! February 20, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I got this book thinking it was gonna be a good read. I thought it would have action and good dialogue. But it didn't. What I got was a rotten story that confused me. I think Pras and his unknown partner shouldn't write anymore books. This one was the worst I ever read. Just when you start getting into one character, the writers start spending ten pages telling you about how wooden benches in a church looked. And there were a lot of long words used in the wrong context. It was as if these writers tried to be "intelligent." The book has not suspense in it. The ending was also unclear and badly written. Everyone was in one room pointing guns at each other like a Quentin Tarantino movie. This book is played out. I should have known when I saw the writer Pras on the cover in a disco shirt that he's more about style over substance. Save your money and don't buy this.
 Pras parlays his writing into a masterpiece August 5, 1999
From the first page the story is beautifully crafted. Everything is connected to tell a captivating tale. The writing is poetic and very descriptive. Michel uses an interesting effect of shifting the point of view, which is done very effectively making the story a real masterpiece.
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