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The City and the Pillar: A Novel

by...Gore Vidal     average rating...3.0 / 5
tags...american fiction gaybookgroup queer
shelved by...miserablizm
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entry by...miserablizm     updated...Apr 19, '08     spoilers...major

Not half as good as Myra, but not bad. Some clunkiness, but also lots of that precise bitchiness I so love Vidal for. Ending continues to disturb me - rape scene very well written.

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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

by...Jeanette Winterson     average rating...3.5 / 5
tags...biography children fable fairytale feminist fiction gay gaybookgroup historical queer religion
shelved by...miserablizm zvilikestv
viewable entries...2

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entry by...zvilikestv     updated...Mar 01, '07     spoilers...n/a

Normally, I think every creative endeavor can be improved through the addition of gayness. But strangely, I think this book is much more engaging and winning when it is focusing on how the narrator's religion (they are fundamentalist Christians in 1960's England), isolates her and her mother from the rest of the world.

The gay coming out and being rejected by family and friends is so old and done. It bores me.

I like the fantasy story bits when they don't too directly parallel the events of the plot. When they're a little en point, they are overly obvious as a cute storytelling technique, rather than illuminating something one didn't already understand.

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entry by...miserablizm     updated...Apr 07, '08     spoilers...n/a

I really, really enjoyed this. Very clearly written, hilarious, devastating, woven so seamlessly into fairytale ... very sexy, very tragic.

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