Reviews

Juice! by Ishmael Reed

chillcox15's review against another edition

2.0

Um, maybe some of this hasn't aged too well. Any time Reed brings up Bill Cosby, I take a drink, but not because this is a fun drinking game-- it's just a bit necessary. That being said, Reed has a lot of pertinent things to say about the way about the media's use and abuse of black men. I just don't know if I care to hear him on issues of gender and queerness ever again. The structure of this novel is in itself interesting; the human thrust of the plot often existing only in small glimpses, overwhelmed by the diatribe the narrator constructs on the subject of Orenthal James Simpson.

beepbeepbooks's review against another edition

5.0

This book had me cackling. Completely caustic, so aware of its' own paranoia, its' own limit as a book. Oscillating between reporting the facts of the O.J. Simpson case, the wider media effect that the case had in America, and a free-wheeling send up of news organizations losing their grasp of their own integrity. Absolutely hilarious, an amazing book.