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A realistic and powerful story of a time before Stonewall

Revisado: 02-11-25

Vivid characters, settings brought to life, an internal and external dive into homophobia and the desire to belong. Great work. Look forward to what Edward Cahill writes next.

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The dreariness of this world.,.

Revisado: 01-23-25

While Conley certainly captures the style and tone of Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, it is tiresome as every character is unhappy, lost or inexplicably mute. While the writer brings Puritanical America to life, it is a slog. Even the minimal sex scenes are slight in description and offer seemingly little joy to the participants. As a product of an evangelical upbringing, I wanted to like this book but I found myself just waiting to get to the end. The talk Garrad Conley gives at the end regarding his intention and research is the most interesting part of the novel.

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Well written, entertaining and sexy

Revisado: 12-05-24

This well written, entertaining novel has a beautiful romance, great sex, battle action and royal intrigue. The narrator does a wonderful job bringing the talented authors words to life.

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The theatre history, the mischievous leading lady and her delightful interviewer

Revisado: 06-29-24

I loved this audio book. It felt like I was sitting in Jude’s leaving room watching the fun these two had talking about Shakespeare and his profound effect on their lives as well as the lives of so many others over the centuries. It taught me more about the plays while also being completely entertaining. I fell in love with both Dame Judy and Brendan O’Hea. One of my absolute favorites.

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One of the best in a long time

Revisado: 01-09-24

Alice Winn is brilliant. This is a graphic, emotional, romantic, erotic, beautifully written story about war and love.

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Disjointed depressing stories of disaffected 20 something’s

Revisado: 06-25-23

This well reviewed novel is both tedious and boring. Nothing happens. Everyone whines about how tough their life is compared to their “friends”/college mates. It was a depressing listen that left me empty and disinterested.

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Narcissistic fiction by Ellis…again

Revisado: 03-13-23

It seems that the author has changed over the years as the story unfolds but towards the climax he shows his true colors. It is gratuitously violent with unanswered questions and no responsibility taken for the narrator’s horrible actions. Maybe that’s his intention, to leave the reader/listener wondering if he did do those things to his friends. Even so, it feels like another exercise in narcissistic fiction that offers only darkness and gloom amidst money, fame and commercial branding.

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Ridiculously bad novel

Revisado: 02-13-23

This is a lecture not a novel, and maybe there is something profound here, but it’s so painfully bad in terms of story, character and sentence structure that I don’t care to stick around to find out. The narrator sounds like he’s trying to be flip and witty but has little to work with in regards to the material. It’s bad all the way around. Couldn’t finish. A waste of a credit.

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Colm in his own voice

Revisado: 02-06-23

A brilliant writer and enjoyable essays read by himself. Aging, religion, other writers, Venice during Covid.

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A brilliant novel/letter of love & desire

Revisado: 01-30-23

Loved this book even though at one point, early on, I thought about stopping. The author writes such beautiful sentences and reads her work in a perfect soothing, laissez-faire voice. It is an ode to love, longing and desire.

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