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• Bestselling author: One of the most popular and acclaimed African-American novelists of his generation, Omar Tyree has had five New York Times bestsellers, in addition to numerous other national lists over the years. Pecking Order, with its perfect blend of money, sex, and vulnerability, gives his fans another book to rave about.
• Final novel: Smart, sexy, and sharply observed, Pecking Order confirms that Omar Tyree, as he moves on to film projects, retires from fiction at his best.
• A sexed-up MBA case study: Pecking Order charts the dizzying rise of Ivan Davis, an accountant who decides to promote networking events among his rich, famous, and frivolous clients. After partnering with Lucina Gallo, the reigning diva of San Diego’s nightlife culture, Ivan hits the big time, and finds himself thrust into the limelight and lands at the doorstep of easy access to women, cash, private jets, and multimillion-dollar real estate. Tyree spins this breathless tale with his usual skill while presenting all the details of his protagonist’s rise to the top, from building website traffic to making property investments. It all makes for a “Horatio Alger update with bling” (Kirkus Reviews) that’s as instructional as it is impossible to put down.
- Sales Rank: #3394859 in Books
- Brand: Tyree, Omar
- Published on: 2009-08-04
- Released on: 2009-08-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.44" h x 1.50" w x 5.50" l, .95 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 495 pages
From Publishers Weekly
A hard-working San Diego accountant changes his station in life in Tyree's overlong, phoned-in latest. After Ivan David is embarrassingly denied entrance to a hip, downtown party, he goes home and dreams of becoming a big-time party promoter. Then he gets to work on pursuing that dream, and good things happen. His first party is a hit, and he hooks up with Lucina Gallo, who has a ton of great connections. As bigger and bigger money flows in, Ivan and Lucina experience their share of growing pains. Things work out and Ivan makes a pile of money, but readers may find themselves wondering after several hundred pages what the point is. (Sept.)
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From Booklist
When 28-year-old Ivan David’s mother died after a long fight with cancer, it liberated him to really think about his future beyond the staid accounting firm where he worked. He felt some guilt that he hadn’t been with his mother at the end, but she’d always told him she wanted him to get on with his life. And that’s exactly what he does—starting a party service with an Internet connection, ID Promotions, to keep San Diego residents abreast of the lively interracial nightlife. Lucina Gallo, a stunning Italian Brazilian woman, with her own well-earned reputation as a party sponsor, teams with Ivan to dream up ever more fabulous productions featuring local athletes and national music stars. All the while, Lucina worries that Ivan will be like her previous partners, who allowed their egos to destroy the partnership. And then there is the matter of the sexual tension between the two of them. Tyree offers plenty of celebrity name-dropping and Internet business planning in this novel about finding the balance between ambition and love. --Vanessa Bush
About the Author
Omar Tyree, New York Times bestselling author, 2001 NAACP Image Award recipient, and 2006 Phillis Wheatley Literary Award winner, has published sixteen novels, five anthologies, a children’s book, and The Equation. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Tedious and pointless
By David H. Birley
Seems to me that I recall somewhere in the far distant past that for a story to be a good story it needs to have a core structure of conflict and resolution. The problem with "Pecking Order" is that it lacks both.
Now a disclaimer. I am a white senior citizen male. I did not grow up in the United States. I am not familiar with the "Hip-Hop" lifestyle, nor with any of the audio sounds associated with it that are presented as "music". In addition, although I have seen the name "Dr. Dre" somewhere in the news sometime in the past year, the other performers of that form of "entertainment" have names I have never heard before. Regardless, because of the presence of Dr. Dre's name, I suspect that the others named are not all fictional either.
What bothers me most about this book is that there is an offensive perception, that I have observed around me from time to time, of the African American male as a person with no interest in anything less than narcissistic self promotion and promiscuous sexual liasions with no depth nor future. This book carries that image forward in painful detail. Listings of the wardrobes of every new character who shows up on the scene. The protagonist (Ivan David -- now there's a recognizeably African American name, right?) agonizes over which color of jacket and shirt to wear, and whether to install a diamond ear stud.
The women (at least in the first 300 pages -- I just gave up after that) are presented as either sex objects, potential sex objects, or unlikely sex objects. The narrative is "relieved" a couple of times by unnecessarily detailed descriptions of sexual encounters, including a presentation of the scene in such a way to show that these are "throw away" partners.
The only conflicts that have appeared are whether a particular female will become a sexual partner tonight. The only resolutions of these "conflicts" is the telling of which one is the "score".
As for the ridiculous ascention from $60K hack accountant to millionaire party, show, and real estate promoter in about a single year (thanks, I suppose, to the assistance of the Beautiful -- they're all beautiful -- Brazilian "Partner" and promoter with her string of "girls" -- who are carefully presented not to be "hookers") too far fetched even for the Brothers Grimm.
If you have the opportunity to pass this one up, grab the opportunity with both hands. This one is going into my recycling bin!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Mr. Tyree has done better...
By T. Mathews
I was not too pleased with this book. It took me too many tries to get started and too much efffort to get through it. I ususally buy books but thankfully I checked this one out from the library but had to pay overdue fees because it took me so long to finish it.
I thought the rise of Ivan was very fast although I did appreciate his hustle. The story had too much math, and like another reviewer said, I was bored to death with all of the details. I also was expecting some sort of "fall" or other humbling experience to put his huge ego in check. Confidence is one thing but arrogance is another. (I don't fault the writer for the character's arrogance though. Maybe he was supposed to be that way.)
I haven't decided yet whether or not I'm offended by the fact that black women were not suitable 'dating' options for Ivan... I believe you love who you love but something about the women chosen, described and written about in this book turned me off. I thought the whole thing about the model in New York was out of place and could have been left out, but I'm not an editor!
I like to read other people's reviews on Amazon but I'm surprised there aren't that many here yet. In any case and in spite of this book, I will continue to read Omar Tyree. I've been with him from book #1 and while I haven't enjoyed all of them, I'm always anxious to see what he brings.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
This is a very unusual book.....
By D. Wilhite
Okay, what can I say about this book? I had high hopes when I heard that an author of the caliber of Omar Tyree was actually writing a book about the world of the "Urban Upscale Event" planners. Unfortunately, something was missing for me with this book. It has its good and bad elements, but the bad seems to outweigh the good. As for the good:
* The book tackles a subject rarely covered in fiction...the world of urban upscale event/party planners. As a veteran of the legendary "Petey" parties in Atlanta and the Marc Barnes gigs in the DC area, I was curious as to how the story of a fictionalized party planner would be presented.
* The book is a literal primer on how to start your own business and the kind of drive and savvy it would take to make it a success. I definitely read with interest the way Ivan negotiated deals, handled employees, marketed his business, how he created marketing tie-ins, how he decided on partners, how he used the Internet and his Website, how he conducted business meetings, and how he handled the money. The way he parlayed his promotion business into increased success in his day job was absolutely masterful and makes the book worth picking up.
* It was good to see a book showing a young college-educated Black man getting his "hustle on", making money, and being successful.
Unfortunately, there's the bad:
* None of the lead characters are even remotely likable. I had hoped that Ivan David would be similar to the main character of "A Do Right Man", but I'm afraid Ivan came across as a little too full of himself to be likable at all, especially as he grew more successful.
* Ivan had absolutely no game when it came to women. I literally cringed at some of the dialogue he used on the women in the book. It was real high school stuff. His main way to seduce women seemed to be "I'm Ivan David, big time party promoter, so you should want to sleep with me." I was hoping Ivan would have been similar to Benilde Little's immensely likable but doggish investment banker Miles Browning, but Ivan had neither the game nor charm to come across as that entertaining to this reader. Just because a Black man is professionally successful and dates quite a few ladies does not mean he has to be presented as a jerk.
* There were no likable romantic attachments for the main character in this book. The mysterious Lucina seemed to have no personality outside of her stunning good looks (and Brazilian women can be gorgeous!). Another female character had the nerve to ask a man to fund her education after sleeping with him a couple of times, and acted a fool when she turned him down. What a loon. Ivan's old college girlfriend came across as desperate and clingy. The daughter of the Black restaurant owner seemed pretty interesting, but again, Ivan didn't have enough game to keep her in play.
* Where was the compelling story? Where was the drama that would keep a reader turning the page? If I wasn't into the business lessons in the book and fascinated by the fact that someone actually wrote a book about the world of "urban upscale events", it would have held no interest for me at all.
* It did seem a little inconceivable that Ivan could rise so far so fast as a promoter. It usually takes a few years to establish a reputation as an event planner to the point where people will actually want to come out to your events in mass and pay good money to attend. Don't get me wrong....Ivan definitely handled his business and used some great marketing techniques, and his partnering with an established promoter definitely did help. But things still seemed to move a little too quickly to be believable.
I suppose the bottom line is this. If you're looking for a book with a great story or one with compelling characters, I can't recommend this book for you. However, if you've started or are thinking about starting your own business, this just might just be a good book to check out for ideas and motivation.
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