Just Say No!, Omar Tyree
Just Say No!, Omar Tyree
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Just Say No!

Author: Omar Tyree

Narrator: Omar Tyree

Abridged: 5 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2001


Synopsis

Omar Tyree, New York Times and Blackboard bestselling author and winner of the 2001 NAACP Image Award for literary fiction, delivers a powerful story of two childhood friends lured into the sex, drugs, money, and madness of R&B stardom.
Darin Harmon and John Williams, two good church boys from Charlotte, North Carolina, have been best friends forever. Both use their God-given talents to breeze through high school, and both are awarded scholarships to North Carolina A&T State University; Darin for foortball and John for music.
During their sophomore year, John, the introverted momma's boy, showcases his musical genius in a homecoming talent show that changes both their lives forever. John's romantic crooning earns him the nickname "Loverboy". As his R&B career begins, he asks Darin to tag along as his manager. Darin wants no part in the music scene and has big dreams of his own, but when he suffers a season-ending football injury, he hops on the "Loverboy" bandwagon. The two set out to turn John into an R&B superstar. For Darin, dealing with John's rising fame proves a difficult challenge. The more the two adapt to the dangerous celebrity lifestyle of big-time money, fast women, and recreational drugs, the harder it gets for both to "just say no!"
Just Say No! is destined to become another urban-American classic from Omar Tyree.

About Omar Tyree

Omar Tyree is a New York Times bestselling author, NAACP Image Award winner, and professional journalist from Howard University, who has written fiction and nonfiction, hard news and op-eds, screenplays and stage plays, and many other forms of writing. He is also an excellent lecturer who has been invited to speak at more than eighty American colleges and universities. His present and ongoing goals include the continuation of developing, writing and publishing great literary content, as well as adapting and producing exceptional films, music, and educational events worldwide.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrea on January 26, 2011

Imagine a book so good, you get mad at the author for messing with your emotions... It was reading this book that I realized what I had been fighting myself about when I was writing. I wanted to make my books so touching and fulfilling to the reader that they remembered the characters long after the......more

Goodreads review by Amiyah on January 09, 2014

As i read this book it touched my heart in a way no other book can. In my opinion Omar Tyree did an amazing job on telling the lesson.......more

Goodreads review by Shanae on March 31, 2011

This novel started off very well & I was definitely intrigued. Halfway through & I just stopped reading. Tyree kind of lost me. It seems this is either a hit or miss. I understand all the 4/5 star review and I also understand all the 2/3 star reviews. There's something about this novel that requires......more

Goodreads review by Corey on August 20, 2018

Good for the soul Friendship in its purest form is to love without condition. This book is good for the soul and we don’t have enough stories written from a black man’s perspective on friendship, love and brotherhood.......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on June 06, 2009

This book really amazed me...I loved the journey of the characters, career-wise as well as how they evolved as men. Awesome book; I've read it at least two or three times!......more