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Next Stop: Growing Up Wild-Style in the Bronx
by
Ivan Sanchez
Beyond the safety of New York City's news headlines, Next Stop is a train ride into the heart of the Bronx during the late eighties and early nineties at the height of the crack epidemic, a tumultuous time when hip-hop was born and money-hungry slumlords were burning down apartment buildings with tenants still inside. From one stop to the next, this gritty memoir follows I...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
October 14th 2008
by Touchstone
(first published 2008)
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As I sit on this subway car and think of how to explain this experience, yes I called it an experience, this book was much more than just a book. It was an experience for me.
I struggle with putting this experience to words, there was so much emotion in this read. The whole time I was reading this book I was rooting for Ivan and his friends. When one of them got killed or jailed, I experienced deep sadness and disappointment.
The book was definitely an emotional roller coaster for me. I laughed at...more
I struggle with putting this experience to words, there was so much emotion in this read. The whole time I was reading this book I was rooting for Ivan and his friends. When one of them got killed or jailed, I experienced deep sadness and disappointment.
The book was definitely an emotional roller coaster for me. I laughed at...more
The book is an autobiographical story about how Ivan Sánchez grew up in the Bronx during this neighborhood's roughest decade and how he passed from being a juvenile delicuent to a professional thug. He writes about how his life was in New York at the time and tells several stories which happened to both him and his crew and the events which lead to him deciding to leave the Bronx for good. The book is filled with murders, heists, beatings, and the intrigues which occured back then. The book is e...more
Oh, I wanted to be in the book club in my local library, but less so once I read this.
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love it so much that wasz one of the best books ive read so far
I Praise Ivan Sanchez for writing this Book and Advocating on it, we need this in our trouble times with our youth.
Whats Your Next Stop... I am advocating to our youth there is more to life then these Mean Streets!!!
STOP blaming do SomeThing!!!!
A must read!
Whats Your Next Stop... I am advocating to our youth there is more to life then these Mean Streets!!!
STOP blaming do SomeThing!!!!
A must read!
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Reading this selection enabled me to envision myself as the fly on the wall during the many events that occured in this story. I felt sad, angry and hopeful as I took this train ride through the streets of the Bronx. This crack epidemic that took place
A good account of the hard life in the BX. His ability to straighten up and his natural wittiness to escape the narrow way downwards is inspirational to many of our lost youths today
EXCELLENT BOOK I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT
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Ivan Sanchez was born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1972 and is of Puerto Rican heritage. He left the inner city in 1993 and currently lives in Virginia Beach, Virgnia, where he works as a computer professional and volunteers in the state police department's anti-gang program. Still haunted by the grotesque images and voices of the dead, this memoir is his effort to honor their memories while pa...more
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