Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scholarship student from working-class roots in New Orleans, he knows what it is to struggle, but he is drawn to the fast and easy life of his pampered friends--Bahar Richards, a rich bitch who spins friends into enemies almost as quickly as she spends money and Jake, her hot hunky brother, an architecture major at Franklin & Marshall, lean and tanned from working building sites all across the country. Drew feels like Bahar is part of his soul--he would do anything for her. And when it comes to Drew's romance with Jake--he just wants...
Most Wanted." After a somewhat slow start, thisguilty goody picks up momentum until you can onlybear to put the book down to spread the juicygossip. Is Bahar really pregnant? Who is the girlwho looks like Sylvia Plath? Was Jake at the sceneof the crime? And with whom will Drew sleep next...
Neihart's prose is fast, fresh and best readout loud: "He was actually in training for Jake.To make himself a hardy, decent, dependable,smart, foxy boyfriend. Because Jake was coming onlike a Hummer, and because Drew had no fuckingintention of going another month all byhimself--not ever. Aloneness was a slow fault thatkilled...
...Prayer for the Dying hits direct about faith and religion, not subtly or from behind. As O'Nan remarks, "Thematically it's precisely the same as all my other books. It's always about hope and despair." Because the reader senses only through Jake, he hears Jake's internal question explicitly...
Plot twists upend and make old-hat whatever seemed the height of evil and deception just a scene ago. So, opening scenario only: Vanity realtor Sandra Dunmore (Patricia Arquette) is sleeping with her husband Jake's brother, Ben (Don Johnson), but since Ben and Jake (Dermot Mulroney) stand to share a bell-ringing inheritance, Jake and Sandra consider offing Ben, who is also idly condescending to pursue his insecure secretary (Mary-Louise Parker). When they do kinda-not-accidentally bump Ben off (a balcony), the sarcastic, haggard Sgt. Pompano (Ellen DeGeneres) turns up, with a Dudley Do-Right...