| | Just Too Good to Be True: A Novel |  | Author: E. Lynn Harris
Publisher: Anchor
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 142174
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
ISBN: 0385492731
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780385492737
ASIN: 0385492731
Publication Date: June 30, 2009 (In 174 Days)
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 Bravo!!! July 16, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
E. Lynn Harris has done it again! Although this book didn't focus on his usual subject matter, he shows that he is a master at what he does and that he is capable of doing it all. Hats off to you, E. Lynn for an excellent read!
 Just to weird to be true August 26, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I eagerly purchased this book looking forward to another page turner from Mr. Harris, what I got instead was a book full of people who need psychiatric help. Camryn's obsession with her son's celibacy, to the point where she was lying to herself was just sick and weird also her son's need to pretend that he was perfect was also weird. WAAAYYY to wrapped up in each other's lives to be healthy. Mothers like that raise sons who are incapable of having relationships with anyone else without having Mommy call the shots. Ugh, I can't even finish it, I just put it down. I'll try the next one, but I'm done with this one.
 OK, maybe another half-star for his intentions... October 6, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is my first book by this writer, and I picked it up because the dust jacket promised a "read" about family, faith and football...a winning combination, I thought. This story was good enough to stick it out to the end, but frankly, I found the main characters fairly unlikeable. The mom of one of the most talented major college football stars of 2005 has a public image of perfection and success. She has hidden a less perfect past and present from her son, and some of her secrets and deceptions seem quite unfair to him. The son, who has promised to be pure, has given in to a couple of temptations, which he hides from mom and the sports world which has taken an interest in him. The family's best friend spills a couple of their secrets foolishly to his new lover, and that gives an unscrupulous sports agent real leverage against the player. Kind of caught in the middle of all this is an overage hooker/cheerleader sent to seduce the player into signing with her adulterous boyfriend/agent. If you are interested, as I was, in learning some things you hadn't known about the pressures in big time college football, you may like the environment in which this novel is set. However, I just didn't really root for the characters I think the author wanted me to support. They are not evil, but it is hard to equate hypocrites with "heroes" either. And the final few pages seem rushed and inadequate to wrap up the story lines. The character I cheered for the most was a guy that mom dated, who ran a sandwich shop, and a man from her past who made a non-hypocritical success out of his life. The football presented here, while bearing little resemblance to reality, was more interesting than either this family, or the faith its members were supposed to possess.
The perfect title July 17, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Just as Brady wanted a father all these years, I've been patiently holding my breath waiting for an E. Lynn Harris book. FINALLY! The story line to this book was such an easy read! I read it in 2 days but could have been done in hours but I was trying to allow E. Lynn the opportunity to savor in my literary soul! The secrets, the lies, the hopes and the dreams of this story can't help but make you sit back as a reader and evaluate your own life. Tell the truth, be committed to God and don't go astray from your track of life....all great lessons but how do we fight the challenges and sins that face us day by day? E. Lynn Harris does a great job of showing that as well as the consequences of facing life each and every day. I can't comment on the book without telling it....all a real reader needs to know is ~ read it, it's a great book...there's nothing like the writing and the creative juices of this talented author!
Not That Great August 5, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I just could not get into this book, it was all over the place. Book did not really get good to me until the last few chapters.
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