200 Beats Per Minute

by Eddie Beverage

Beats, Rhymes & Life. Orlando, Florida, dubbed by many in the press as "the Seattle of Electronica," is home to Danny Boyle, self-proclaimed armchair radical and junior revolutionary. This is his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966429702
• ISBN13: 9780966429701
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Sure Shot Publishing
• Length: 167 Pages

Customer Reviews

Numb

to compare this book to the Ecstasy Club is such an insult. yes the characters are self-indulgent. yes they're selfish, bratty and irresponsible. that's the whole point. does anybody get it? it's about what happens when youthful ideals and naieve blue-sky optimism are corrupted by drugs and greed. this is the dark side of the moon. explore it.

A great book that discusses sexual idenity and love

I found this book very beneifical. I choose to read this book in hopes of better understanding what it's like to be gay. I strongly believe this was accomplished. The most important thing that I took from this book was seeing how how much love people can have for one another.

it was the best book i ever read

i could relate. i never read but i couldnt stop reading this book. the only thing i didnt care for was the fact that he was gay . i could say that i felt like there are more people out there like me and that it made my feel great. also i liked when he mentioned djs that i love ,proveing to me that he knew what was up.

Rave, drugs and danger anyone? Yes please!

200 BPM is probably the best "portrait" of the American rave scene ever written. Cheers to Eddie Beverage, who knows his subject matter well and who writes with shocking overdoses of passion, purpose, and honesty.Beverage constructs a semi-autobiographical story involving chemically-enhanced Orlando teenage ravers. Nothing is so important to his characters as drugs, danger, and camaraderie. Sound a little familiar?You won't find any PC, "all-American", leave-it-to-beaver crap in this story; only beauty attained through suffering, ecstasy and agony brought by chemicals, and the naked truths of life , maturity, and sexuality as experienced in the chaotic minds of this self-dubbed "breakbeat" generation. This is America. This is us. This is how we feel on drugs: homo-erotic, unloved, and insane. A must-read for all Americans either involved with or ignorant of the true history of the last ten years of American counter-culture. You are due for some fun and education and you will get it!