A review by chillcox15
Juice! by Ishmael Reed

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.