A Conversation with the Mann

This is one of the best books I have ever read it reads like an autobiography so realistic that I almost looked the lead character up on Wikipedia......more

Now that I'm done with this one, I have no more John Ridley books to read. That makes me sad. But this one is my second favorite of his (hard to beat Stray Dogs). This one is a biography of someone who never existed. In the intro a fictional John Ridley runs into Jackie Mann, a has-been or never-was......more

I have really enjoyed all the other books I've read by John Ridley, but this one was a bit disappointing. It hit very hard on the discrimination issue, which admittedly does need to be done, but then the characters didn't have quite enough meat on them. I stopped reading halfway through. The ending......more

Wow! I am so impressed, by not only the vibrant writing and the merge of history with this character, but with the narration given so brillantly by Dion Graham. Yes, this would have been been a wonderful read, but hearing it as an audio reading with definitive characterizations by its narrator adds......more