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Title: Paradise Overdose: A Novel by Brian Antoni ISBN: 0-8021-3487-4 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: February, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: OLD FREEPORTER'S OPINION
Comment: I believe that Brian Antoni is a very talented writer, which made it harder for me to understand why he had to resort (no pun intended) to such excessive, decadent, revolting sex scenes. So many parts per billion would have more than sufficed. I know this book is a work of fiction, and the current Freeport has many problems. However, I too was raised in Freeport, and I just want people to know that the ORIGINAL Freeport was the closest thing to the lost city of Atlantis, and is now lost to all but a few old Freeporters - Bahamiams, Europeans, Canadians, Orientals, Aussies, Trinidadians, Americans, etc. who carry it in their memories. We were privileged to be part of the dream that was Freeport. And one of the heroes of Freeport was Brian's father, Dr. Robert Antoni. / / / / / B. Copeland

Rating: 4
Summary: 80's revisited with caribbean spice!
Comment: If you like Jay McInerney ("Bright Lights Big City", or my favourite "Story of My Life",) you'll love this book! It's brain candy to be sure, but there is enough tragedy to give a genuine depth to the book. I've spent a lot of time in Freeport, Bahamas and found the fictional history of Grand Bahama Island amusing, but a lot of the descriptions of life in Freeport are completely true! Give it a try, you just might like it!

Rating: 5
Summary: One of the most powerful debuts to hit the bookshelves
Comment: In this delicate age of political correctness, Mr. Antoni blows the roof off propriety with a tale of decadence that is both a harrowing moralistic fable of cross addictions and a heart-breaaking chronical of trying to find redemption through love and a personal epiphany through the haze of sex and suffering. Antoni's prose rings with a contemporary earnestness that sometime boarders on the scatological, heightening the intensity of this powerful story. Anyone with the deligence to open themselves to some true heartbreak will be rewarded with the privilege of reading one of the most powerful debuts to hit the bookshelves in a long time.