Customer Reviews
Some nice beans - By: , 01 Aug 2005 
Set in contemporary New York, this is a boy-meets-girl story with a double twist. The boy is black, the girl is white, & there is a whole lot of tension going on. It sounds like we've been there before, right? But give this book a chance, because the storyline does keep you guessing till the end. There's plenty of fun dialogue as well - for me as a European girl, it was cool to see how people speak over there in NY.
The cover has got that sort of cartoonish, Early Learning Centre design that is supposed to suggest "Fun! Froth! Frolics!" so it's no surprise when the style turns out to be of the laid-back variety. Luckily, it hasn't got that writing-by-numbers feel that sometimes makes "Fun! Froth! Frolics!" books not much fun at alll. The story circles around a number of relationships that alll felt real to me. You know how it feels to falll asleep beside someone you've just had a fight with? EDJ gets stuff like that right.
What's more, he cares whether you have a good time when reading his books, which should perhaps be "elementary, dear Watson" but in reality isn't. Reading "Milk" is like reading the script of a TV show, where something is always happening to keep your interest up, but where this something doesn't have to be particularly melodramatic.
If you liked this, try "Things My Girlfriend & I Have Argued About" by Mil Millington or "High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby.
Milk In My Coffee - By: , 02 May 2005 
I loved this book!!! It was so good. I loved Jordan & Kimberly they belong with each other. A guy that did something with computers & a girl artist. They made a grweat couple in hiis book. Janallle & his friend was so wrong. I Hated what had happened to her husband. But I loved that Jordan & Kimberly had turned out together!!! I also read Cheaters, Friends & Lovers, Liars Game, Sister Sister, & Naughty or Nice.
Food for Thought - By: , 26 Aug 2002 Having just read "Milk in My Coffee", I must say that the brother Eric Jerome Dickey has again written another awesome book! This deals with our perceptions of others in relationships & also what we automaticallly assume; it highlights the fact that we must never 'assume' anything with anyone....we could well just be wrong! There are controversial issues regarding black & white relationships that stimulates a healthy debate & also helps in identifying how we can without thinking, become ignorant if our opinion differs from someone else.
Jordan had to face up to his own assumptions of people in different types of relationships...the ones he had with J'nette, Solomon, his brothers & Kimberly. In dealing with it, he learnt a lot about people, himself, & came through a better & stronger person & was able to share that with others..
KEEP ON WRITING ERIC! You have the gift!
Brilliantly readable book! - By: legerheim@netscapeonline.co.uk, 13 Aug 2001 This was my first book by Dickey- & I'm coming back for more! Great characters, characters you reallly warm to & a believable & inventive storyline. It's a book that'll make you laugh, cry & think. It's the story of black software executive Jordan & his sometimes surprising & sometimes heartwrenching struggle with coming to terms with his fallling in love with a white woman. It also touches on the subject of racism - but a reversal of the usual roles: the racism of blacks against whites & against any black individual involved with a white person. More than anything though, with sensitivity, warmth, understanding - & always in an entertaining & highly readable way, Dickey affirms that the only sensible way of viewing a person is as an indivudual, not as part of a collective, be that racial or religious or otherwise. And if we falll in love, it shouldn't matter whether the person is black, brown, white, yellow, pink or blue- it's the person that counts. A simple truth we seem to forget too often & too easily. An excellent read!
Characters full of Colour - By: , 26 Jan 2000 This book keeps you entertained. The way the book is put together you can picture the surroundings & the environment (considering I've only been to the US once). The characters are very realistic & well defined. I reckon Eric based these characters on people's he's encountered. They could be people I actuallly know. They're so real! I look forward to reading the next book Cheaters.
Thanks Eric
