Man I wouldn't pay a squirt of [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord140][CodeWord140][/url] for that book. If that book is anything like the Essence article he wrote a couple of years ago than it's nonesense. You are better off reading the trip reports on this site for a better feel of what Rio is all about. He makes it appear as if mongering in Rio is unique to just the blackman, when in fact we are a very small minority there. Certain weeks you might see more blacks guys than usual but not that often. Other races/ nationalities outnumber blacks by far and have been doing this for decades. This tool even caused some problems for some of the fellas with their significant other when the article came out in 2006 or so.
Since you bought it already enjoy it like any other book of fiction, but don't take too much from it as far as good info/intel on what's going on in Rio. Please keep it away from the sistas at home, we have it hard enough here in the states LOL. Unless I found that book in the library or it was given to me, I would be damn to support this dude with book sales after trying to throw the brothas under the bus with that biased hit piece.
Let me know if I'm wrong about the contents of the book since I have not read it, but I have read the article and heard this guy on the radio promoting the book. Also back when this first broke a lot of guys on this and the other monger site wrote into the Essence forum disputing what this guy wrote in the article.
Good luck planning your trip.
