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Book Review: BANANAS: OBSERVATIONS, FIXATIONS, AND DECLARATIONS, FROM A PROFOUNDLY DISORDERED MIND.

November 27, 2024

Author: b.f. thames
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Review By: UBF Founder, Ivan Kilgore

“A quick read, BANANAS is everything the copy on the back if the book says it is! SMDH! The first 111 aphorisms will have emotionally charged in every extreme from making you mad to making you cry and, at times, confused! The author takes the reader on a loop: After hitting us with a few mad quips like, “White women are not ‘The Black Man’s Kryptonite’ …They are a consolation prize” and “People are motion pictures, not snapshots”, he switches gears in a totally “disordered” fashion that allows the reader to get a better understanding of who b.f. thames is.”“CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK:
I was pissed that after giving me 111 powerful aphorisms, that Mr. Thames decided to go into a 43 page autobiography that, while well written and comical at times, really paled in face of dropping Proverbs. MY ADVICE: Save the autobiography for another work. But then…I guess the subtitle says it all!”For more about b.f. thames and his other works, log onto his web links below:

KALW Radio 91.7 FM

https://medium.com/inside-the-kalw-newsroom/uncuffed-stories-from-solano-state-prison-d37f4cadfdae

Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/bfthames

Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/Vanilla-Tears-Residual-Emotional-Terrorism/dp/1413736734

b.f. thames; Defense Blog
https://sites.google.com/site/brianfthames/

Ivan

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