Title: I really wanted to like this book
Product review: The White Boy Shuffle certainly had a very intriguing premise. The first few chapters were great. After that, the trouble began. In the first few chapters, there were small elements of fantasy that caught the reader off-guard. However, after that, Beatty went totally overboard with the fantasy element of the story. It turned from a charming story about a young black man's struggles while growing up into a combination Tom Robbins novel-sermon about what is wrong with society. The last few chapters were almost unreadable. Beatty seems to have lost his focus while writing this book, and it shows.
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