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BMF: The Rise And Fall Of Big Meech And The Black Mafia Family (2010)

by Mara Shalhoup(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0312383932 (ISBN13: 9780312383930)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

St. Martin's Press

review 1: This book reads like a Law & Order episode. My eyes were stretched to capacity, while my mind soaked up the words like a sponge. The Flenory brothers were criminal masterminds of the cocaine world. And the title of the book definitely says it all. Their rise was one that most poor people only dream about, except their dreams, most likely, didn't envision being drug traffickers. I was a bit shocked by the celebrities tied to the brothers. P. Diddy's name was mentioned throughout the book because of his first cousin being a lower level trafficker for Big Meech. Young Jeezy and Bobby Brown, just to name a few. Some may find this book hard to follow because it jumps all over the place, and although I was a bit disappointed that it really wasn't written from the broth... moreers' perspectives, but rather, Mara, the author, wrote it from many court documents and federal documents that she obtained. I can't say this book is really a biography, because the brothers didn't write it, and they only have a small voice in the very beginning and toward the end. As I stated above, if you are a Law & Order fan, you will read this book very swiftly because you'll be able to keep up with the changing pace. It's an excellent read and didn't take me long to read. I came away feeling sorry for these brothers, and I know I shouldn't, but it saddens me to know that those two men were so intelligent and business savvy that instead of using those organizational skills to make a legitimate corporation, they decided, all too often as many brothas out here do, to take the criminal route to build their success. I would just hope that anyone reading this, especially young people who are always out here chasing the dollar, that viewing the lives of the Flenory brothers might teach them something. In the end, was it worth killing their people on the street for the sake of that paper? Was it worth it knowing they aren't going to be able to see their children grow up? To have all that money and be left broke in the end? Well, some may speculate on that because they raked in billions of dollars, which I'm sure is tucked away neatly somewhere. Meech will be 61 when he's released from prison and his younger brother, Terry, will be 59. Sad story, but a four-star good read.I'd love to ask them, if they could do it all over again, would they? And more importantly, was it worth it to lose everything? Their fall had a heavier price to pay than the cost of their rising!
review 2: Interesting story about my childhood friends Meech and Terry Flenory of Southwest Detroit. I like the content of the book as well as the fact that I could identify with most of the Atlanta and Detroit places cited in the book. I also knew many of the characters. The biggest challenge of the book was the verbiage and flow of the inexperienced author. Mara Shalhoup did a very poor job of allowing the story to flow. I found it challenging that she chose to reintroduce the characters many times over. I also found the chapters to be disjointed. If in fact this story is made into a movie, it is my hope that someone writes an original screenplay for this dynamic and largely appealing street story. less

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