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Core2Duoノートレビュー 's review
(You go Henry Archer)
『Oh, how I loved this book. [Spoiler alert]...This book was unique in that things start going really well for the main character, Henry Archer, about a third of a way through, and they pretty much stay good from there. I think I've been reading too many sad books lately, because I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop for Henry Archer. I kept expecting that Thalia or Todd would end up betraying Henry, and was so relieved it never happened. What I realized was that Lipman is such a great - and hilarious - writer, she didn't need relationship disasters to make her plot move along. I closed the book wanting to thank Lipman for giving us what so happens so rarely in fiction - a genuine happy ending that didn't feel at all contrived.』

(not her best)
『A few funny lines, a few enjoyable moments, but overall the plot didn't really hang together and the main character was more irritating than quirky. The ending was neither intriguing nor thought provoking, just odd.』

(The Family Man)
『Book arrived within the allotted time frame and is in great shape. Great product and even with shipping costs, was much less expensive than if purchased at a chain book store. Great value!』

(THE SURVIVAL OF ONE MAN'S FAMILY)
『Elinor Lipman is known for producing smartly written, amusing stories of modern day people facing modern day problems. In her latest outing, The Family Man, she introduces us to an array of unusual characters ranging from charming Henry Archer the single, retired and quietly gay attorney and his ex-wife the distraught, recently widowed an absolutely self-centered Denise Krouch to their aspiring actress daughter Thalia and her pretend boyfriend Leif, a quasi Hollywood star who is trying to jump start his career by shedding his "creepy character-horror movie" persona in order to reinvent himself as a desirable lothario.

Add to this mix a 24 year old pre-nuptial agreement, the delivery of a eulogy that can only be described as a faux-pas, some complicated but amusing family circumstances and you have a delightful and humorous narrative romp through some absurd (and some not so absurd) situations that are guaranteed to keep you chuckling.

No further details will be divulged here lest it ruin the experience of reading this droll offering.
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(Loved my first Lipman novel!)
『This is the first Elinor Lipman book I have read, recommended to me by a friend. Elinor creates memorable characters, the fatherly Henry, out of his comfort zone, Thalia, his larger than life step-daughter, and the annoying but ultimately likable Denise. Denise barges back into Henry's life after the death of her husband, whom she left Henry for. Her husband died one year before the expiration of their 25 year old pre-nup and her step-sons are cutting her out. Henry reluctantly becomes her only confidant, while trying to build a relationship with Thalia. This book is light, witty, and sharp. There is also Todd, a potential new love for Henry and Leif, the actor hiring Thalia to pose as his fiance. It is humorous and whimsical. An easy and enjoyable read for a Saturday afternoon. It's hard to put down once you start. There are so many brilliant scenes that make the reader laugh. Now I just have to decide what will be my next Elinor read.
[...]』
『

A hysterical phone call from Henry Archer’s ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend his well-ordered life and bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a lawyer, an old-fashioned man, gay, successful, lonely. Thalia is now twenty-nine, an actress-hopeful, estranged from her newly widowed eccentric mother—Denise, Henry’s ex. Hoping it will lead to better things for her career, Thalia agrees to pose as the girlfriend of a horror-movie luminary who is down on his romantic luck. When Thalia and her complicated social life move into the basement of Henry’s Upper West Side townhouse, she finds a champion in her long-lost father, and he finds new life—and maybe even new love—in the commotion.

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(Gay Agatha Christie)
『Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.

Disclaimer:
* I read books in every genre, but I have a soft spot for romances that are more about feelings than sex. If a book has lots of lust-filled, dispassionate sex, I'm not impressed. If the sex is a manifestation of love, bring it on.

Rating: 7/10

Pros:
- Good plot. Not quite as twisty-turny as an Agatha Christie novel, but close.
- Funny. As in, FUNNY.
- Several likeable characters, if somewhat simple (this contributes to the story's humor).
- Sex scenes that are (and this is unique, from what I've read in m/m erotica, romance, whatever) integral to the plot.


Cons:
- Lots of sex that didn't do it for me. Again, the sex scenes are used as plot devices--and cleverly done--but they are much more graphic than say, those in Alex Beecroft's Captain's Surrender, and much less affecting. Why? Because they're just sex; there's very little feeling on the part of either character in any of them.
- Possible SPOILERS here: Tries to be a bit of a romance at the end but fails to create enough backstory between the main character and the other guy to fully succeed. Their sex scene is less than a page, for crying out loud (whereas others with despicable characters are several pages long and quite detailed)!
- I saw a few of the plot twists coming.

Overall comments: Worth reading if you like mysteries and either enjoy or don't mind gay sex, sometimes crudely described. Not for you if you're looking for sweet, tender gay romance.』

(Sex, sex, sex, and sex (oh, yes, and a murder mystery, too))
『An easy read, with lots of sex, and an English country home murder mystery that in the end left me a little confused about people's motives. The book I read just before this was Farthing by Jo Walton, which is an English country home murder mystery set in an alternative-history England. This too, is sort of set in an alternative-history England -- one in which just about every man is young, hot, handsome and ready to have sex with every other man they meet. It's amazing how the country survived with so few heterosexual men to repopulate it.

(Note: a small quibble -- when the hero meets the constable (who is young, hot, handsome and ready to have sex with him) he mentions that the bobby likes his American accent, and might not have heard the real thing before since "talking pictures had not yet arrived" in the place the murder occurs. But since the book is set in 1925, talking pictures hadn't even really arrived in Hollywood, either, so that's an editorial error that should have been caught.)』

(Sex and Agatha)
『The Back Passage is a fab read. It is like Agatha Christie (which I love) with astonishingly frequent sex, some seriously funny moments and a murder mystery to boot.
Our hero Mitch is on holiday at an English country side home with his friend, and soon to be lover, Boy Morgan. While not terribly altruistic, Mitch is a likable rouge and has been dying to get into Morgan's pants since the first time he met him at Cambridge. He's set about it in a deliberate manner and has high hopes that the weekend away will be the culmination of months of subtle seduction. Morgan is engaged to be married after all, but not altogether reluctant.
While hiding in a closet with Boy, and doing some rather furious fooling around, a dead body is discovered. Coitus interruptus! Unable to leave well enough alone, Mitch takes it upon himself to investigate the murder when it looks like an innocent man may be jailed. With Boy as his trusty sidekick and a whenever, whoever and wherever attitude (srsly WHENEVER) Mitch looks deeper into the crime and finds all is not as it seems in Drekeham Hall.
There is a little something there for the die hard romantics but I would not class it as a romance as such. But, there are bad cops, voyeuristic house staff, hot groundsmen on horseback, opportunistic chauffeurs and a secret back passage so I think there is a little something for everyone. My one caution, don't read it in public. Because when you do get snapped by someone who has read it you're more than likely be up to smex and there is nothing worse than trying to get coffee with a red face! They just know what you're reading... heh.
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(A raucous homoerotic romp)
『Indeed, this sexually explicit novel is not meant for everyone. As other reviewers have pointed out, there are many cases of gratuitous gay sex throughout the book. The detective of the day, Edward "Mitch" Mitchell, is a randy detective surrounded by host of randy constables, household guests and servants. Mitch is a wonderfully witty character with a holster of camp humor and a raging libido. For those readers who might enjoy a homo Hercule Poirot, this will be a fun and fast read (unless, of course, the reader decides to revisit certain passages of the text!). Overall, this is a fun book, but admittedly not everyone's "cup of tea."』

(a porno book)
『You know how some books are made into movie adaptations. Well, think of *The Back Passage* as a book adaptation of a gay porn. Really!

Mitch is an American student studying in Cambridge. Well, really, he's not studying. He's too busy "doing it" with all the guys he encounters in his "room and board". He's doing it with his roommate, his sidekick, a driver, a bobby (cop) and even a guy he hates. Like I said, he's just doing every guy...all the while he's investigating a death.

Keep in mind that if and when you get this book, it's just purely for entertainment. Don't expect an impressive storyline or character development. Just get this for a good naughty read.』
『Agatha Christie, move over! Hard-core sex and scandal meet in this brilliantly funny whodunit. A seaside village, an English country house, a family of wealthy eccentrics and their equally peculiar servants, a determined detective— all the ingredients are here for a cozy Agatha Christie-style whodunit. But wait — Edward "Mitch" Mitchell is no Hercule Poirot, and The Back Passage is no Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Mitch is a handsome, insatiable 22-year-old hunk who never lets a clue stand in the way of a steamy encounter, whether it’s with the local constabulary, the house secretary, or his school chum and fellow athlete Boy Morgan, who becomes his Watson when they’re not busy boffing each other. When Reg Walworth is found dead in a cabinet, Sir James Eagle has his servant Meeks immediately arrested as the killer.But Mitch’s observant eye pegs more plausible possibilities: polysexual chauffeur Hibbert, queenly pervert Leonard Eagle, missing scion Rex, sadistic copper Kennington, even Sir James Eagle himself. Blackmail, police corruption, a dizzying network of spyholes and secret passages, watersports, anda nonstop queer orgy backstairs and everyplace else mark this hilariously hard-core mystery by a major new talent.』
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Core2Duoノートレビュー 's review
(A brilliant and compelling account of "walkers between the worlds")
『Walking between the worlds

Karen McCarthy Brown has penned a masterpiece! Mama Lola, known to family and friends as Alourdes, is a Mambo, an initiated priestess of Voudou who earns a modest living by serving her immigrant countrymen in America as a traditional healer and by conducting Haitian Voudou rites in her Brooklyn home. In 1978, Brown, then a professor of religion at New Jersey's Drew University first encountered Mama Lola while doing an ethnographic survey of the local Haitian population. Intrigued by the priestess and her misunderstood and maligned tradition, Brown became at first a friend, then a member of Mama Lola's extended family and finally an enthusiastic participant in many of the rites that comprise the corpus of Voudoun devotional life.

Mama Lola, her daughter Maggie, their children and their ancestors, and the 'Lwa' (spirits) who frequently 'possess' them are an engaging, wonderfully diverse crowd: deeply spiritual, profoundly thoughtful and often humorous characters marvelously skilled in surviving conditions of extreme deprivation and oppression and in adapting to the conditions of life (or, afterlife) in the strange world of urban America.

By the time I had completed this delightful book, I felt myself deeply involved in Mama Lola's life and that of her extended family. Brown's writing is textured and a pleasure to read. The author goes far out on a limb, leaving her observer role and social scientist expertise and becomes an initiate into the religion, wedding the 'etic' of academia to the 'emic' of an ecstatic, profoundly sensual, Earth-centered religiosity.

The arrangement of the text adds to its readability, with odd chapters offering stories about Mama Lola's family and heritage and even chapters devoted to the pantheon of lwa (spirits) of the Voudou tradition. A glossary of Voudou terms has been added, which is indispensible to readers new to the subject.

Students and scholars of Haiti, the African Diaspora and African religious traditions will enjoy and benefit from this work immensely. I recommend it as well to the general public for a most worthwhile reading adventure.』

(Praise for Mama Lola)
『What a journey! This is one of those rare books that not only tells a great story, but actualy envelops the reader and takes them on an incredible spiritual journey. The author writes in a style which is both familiar and confortable. When she describes places, rituals, or people, the reader feels like they are there, seeing these things with the author. As for Mama Lola herself, what a woman! Mama Lola, Alourdes, is presented as a kind, strong, knowledgeble, and powerful priestess. When the author writes Mama Lola's words, you can feel as if you are actually hearing her speak to you. The words along with several photographs give this book more than the reader could ever imagine. I will cherish this book as long as I live.』

(Vodou as psychodrama)
『One of the best books ever. This book strikes a perfect balance between a dry, scholarly approach and a colorful, sensationalist approach. It is written by a scholar who was initiated into and participated in vodou rituals, thus avoiding the kind of spiritual blindness that often afflicts scholars studying alien religions.
What is really fascinating about the practice of vodou as depicted in this book is how it functions as a kind of psychodrama for maintaining personal and social balance and mental health. Fascinating.』

(Human)
『This is an engrossing and moving read that compares with such books as "Woman Who Glows In The Dark" and "Macumba." It is about a very wonderful, gifted woman who is a Mambo, a Haitian Vudou healer and spiritualist. The story is about her life, her ancestors, her spirits and her relationships. The book is rich with insights.』

(You can't help but love this family!)
『Not really a book on Hatian Vodou. Mama Lola is more a family history and a description of what serving the spirits means to them.
Dr. Brown makes this amazing woman and her family come alive on the page.
Alourdes is all at once a devout woman, devoted mother, petulent and powerful woman. Her family is at once inspiring and beverage out your nose funny.
By the end of this edition, I found myself not only falling in love with Alourdes family, but with the spirits they so loyally serve.
A terrfic book if you want to understand what Vodou means to it's followers, what life is like for immigrant women and the pride and strength that comes from growing up in the poorest country in the Western hemisphere.
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『Karen McCarthy Brown's classic book shatters stereotypes of Vodou by offering an intimate portrait of African-based religion in everyday life. She explores the importance of women's religious practices along with related themes of family and of social change. Weaving several of her own voices--analytic, descriptive, and personal--with the voices of her subjects in alternate chapters of traditional ethnography and ethnographic fiction, Brown presents herself as a character in Mama Lola's world and allows the reader to evaluate her interactions there. Startlingly original, Brown's work endures as an important experiment in ethnography as a social art form rooted in human relationships. A new preface, epilogue, bibliography, and a collection of family photographs tell the story of the effect of the book's publication on Mama Lola's life.』
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タイトル『 Taking Woodstock > 『 Taking Woodstock > 『 The Road to Woodstock > 『 The Road to Woodstock > 『 Woodstock - Peace, Music&Memories > 『 Woodstock - Peace, Music&Memories > 『 Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock > 『 Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock > 『 Woodstock: Three Days That Rocked the World > 『 Woodstock: Three Days That Rocked the World > 『 Taking Woodstock: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script) > Elliot Tiber,Tom Monte


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Core2Duoノートレビュー 's review
(Woodstock Saved and Stonewall Paved)
『What a treat! Not only did Elliot save Woodstock, but he paved the way for future Gays by being at Stonewall!
Along the way he has some WILD times with the likes of Robert Mapplethorpe, Marlon Brando and Wally Cox!!
What an amazing time he had and we have by reading this fun, fast paced book.
He got a front row seat to one of the most exciting summer's of love! We get a second row seat by reading!!』

(Be Prepared)
『Be prepared for long passages of slice-of-life gay young man in NYC with your hippy memorabilia. I was willing to give Elli the stump time in exchange for his insight into the nexus that was the Macombo Motel. In the end I felt shortchanged. I feel that the reader has to listen to too much sexual psycho-babble to get the reward of what went on behind the scenes before the scene at Yasgurs dairy farm happened.』

(Hilarious, and touching)
『I had more laugh-out-loud moments with this book than any I've read in years. I also learned how Woodstock happened to happen, something I'd known nothing about (beyond Max Yasgur), even having been there (and yes, it changed my life). What I didn't expect was one of the most poignant accounts I've yet read of a boy's coming to grips with his being gay - and, later, a first-hand report of the Stonewall riots. Turns out Elliot Tiber (nee Teichberg) was there when it started! Who would've guessed that Stonewall and Woodstock were joined at the hip? This is an invaluable document of our once-upon-a-times, and a delight to read. I saw the movie, and while I liked it quite a bit, it doesn't do justice to the book. By all means, read it.』

(Not what I was expecting, but really, really, good.)
『I'm 14 years old and I loved this book! I bought it because I knew it was about Woodstock, and I wanted to learn more about it. I didn't realize it was written by the person who made Woodstock happen. I was pleasantly suprised with this book. It's one of my new favorites.』

(Meet Elliot Tiber)
『Tiber, Elliot with Tom Monte. "Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life", Square One Publishers, 2009.

Meet Elliot Tiber


Soon all of us will know the name Elliot Tiber because of the new Ang Lee movie based upon this book. He is the man is that is the "father of Woodstock"--he fought the pettiness and narrow mindedness of his small town of Bethel, N.Y so that the Woodstock music festival could take place in 1969. But this is also the story of a very intersecting life--of the son of poor Jewish immigrant merchants who worked himself to a career in art design. He is a gay male who was part of the underground S?M movement in New York City who met and partied with the famous--among them Robert Mapplethorpe, Truman Capote, Rock Hudson and Tennessee Williams. He kept this part of his life secret because his parents would never have accepted it. In early 1969 he read about the plans for a music festival and that a permit had been denied. He just happened to be the president of the Bethel Chamber of Commerce and had the power to issue a permit so he got in touch with the producers and offered them Max Yagur's farm and the whirlwind began. The story is wonderful and very, very funny.
There are interesting looks into homosexuality of the time and the relationship that Tiber shared with his parents is very funny. The humor is witty, albeit self-deprecating but the story is brutally honest. We cannot forget that Woodstock is part of our lives even if we were not there and now with this book and the movie you can feel like you are there. Tiber knows how to tell a story and you really see that here. An interesting point here is that we see how the music scene and the fight for gay rights have a lot in common and are intertwined here. We see both the struggle for gay rights and Woodstock through the eyes of someone who was actually there
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『Partnership in Blood Volume 4 The war is at a fever pitch with both sides stretched to the limit, when the dark wizards score a shocking victory and capture Orlando St. Clair. Haggard with worry and grief at the separation from his lover, Alain fears that even if they find Orlando, the vampire's heart and mind may be far too broken to save. Knowing the Alliance teeters on the brink, Christophe Lombard, the oldest, most powerful vampire in Paris leaves his self-imposed seclusion to join the fight. Alain's lost friend Eric Simonet, who betrayed him to join the dark wizards, is faced with a choice between revenge and redemption. And Jean, enraged by Orlando's capture, faces the most agonizing decision in his unlife as the final battle looms: Will their actions lead to the shattering of the Alliance or the salvation of the world?』
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タイトル『 Jude The Obscure > 『 Jude The Obscure > 『 The Return of the Native (Penguin Classics) > 『 The Return of the Native (Penguin Classics) > 『 Tess of the D'Urbervilles > 『 Tess of the D'Urbervilles > 『 The Mayor of Casterbridge (Norton Critical Edition) > 『 The Mayor of Casterbridge (Norton Critical Edition) > 『 Far from the Madding Crowd (Modern Library Classics) > 『 Far from the Madding Crowd (Modern Library Classics) > 『 Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics) > Thomas Hardy


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(Hey Jude)
『This is classic Thomas Hardy--a likeable hero allows himself to be ruined by the opposite sex and the hard realities of life written in very descriptive, poetic language of bygone years. Jude, the hero, is a very humane, decent sort of man who although poor, aspires to become educated and enter the priesthood. He is self-taught and disciplined and seems to be well on the way to achieving his goals at the college when he meets a crude pig farmer girl and becomes intimate with her. She tricks him into marriage and immediately they have major problems and part. Jude then sets out for college only to meet his cousin and erstwhile soul mate, Sue. Sue is quite a character, a bizarre mixture of feminist, scholar, teacher, flirt, rebel, and self-absorbed fool. She is on an emotional roller coaster and takes Jude with her. She toys with Jude's affection and that of an older school master, leading them both on although she is repulsed by physical contact. She marries the schoolmaster only to suddenly want Jude back and leaves her husband. She and Jude then begin an unmarried life together and produce children, as well as taking in Jude's son by his wife. Their life is full of problems and ends with a tragedy involving the children. Through it all Jude remains a likeable, moral character of sorts who tries to accept his lot in life and shoulder responsibility, only to be dashed down again and again.

I could not help to like Jude, as I also liked Tess in Hardy's other similar novel. Jude is hurt by his propensity for the wrong women as Tess was hurt by men of low morals. I found myself getting annoyed by his love for selfish Sue and hoping he would get away from her before it was too late.

This is a dark, despairing kind of novel, stark in its realism about human nature and the consequences of wrong choices and going against the norms of society. Yet, it is a good read and is highly recommended.』

(lazy publisher)
『The edition of "Jude the Obscure" that I believe you're seeing on this page -- the Signet paperback, with the two horses on the cover -- first came out in '61 and hasn't been touched since then (except to add a bibliography in 1980). There is a helpful 11-page afterword by Al Alvarez, but that's it. Signet has just been reissuing and reissuing the same thing for over four decades.

With the Signet, though, there are no footnotes; you're just getting the bare text. That means that you'll have zero help with Hardy's rustic or ecclesiastical terms, not to mention the abundant Latin.

In short, get this one: Jude the Obscure (Oxford World's Classic), in which said defect is remedied. And unlike the Signet, in which the text has adjusted to reflect modern spelling and pronunciation, the Oxford's World's Classics is Hardy's original text as he saw it published.』

(Obscure is an understatement)
『I very much enjoyed the beginning of the novel. However, toward the end, things became a little too dark. I'd been warned that it was Hardy's darkest, but was still unprepared for the plot twists.
Hardy's word choice, foreshadowing, and imagery were very entertaining, but the plot was unenjoyable towards the end. Character motivation also was rather abstract. I had to read this book for my Eng102H class, and if I had picked it out for pleasure reading, I would not have finished it. It was obscure to say the very least.』

(Sound and Fury)
『I found the first part of the book to be pretty interesting; here is a nonconformist couple bucking the weight of Victorian mores and standards to live life according to their inner callings--actually, to live life in a way that's much taken for granted today--and I wondered what Hardy would do with them. I was pretty certain he wouldn't write a polemical celebration of nonconformist freedom like, e.g., D.H. Lawrence. Though this is my first Hardy novel (I don't count having read Return of the Native in high school or watching Roman Polanski's "Tess"), I'd read enough of his poetry to conclude he had a dark and gloomy side, mournful and fatalistic, an unerring instinct for turning things toward misery and loss...So there was a bit of suspense for me to see what Hardy would do with these free spirits of his who more or less reflected worldviews of his own.

Well, without getting into the grisly details (in an effort not to spoil any of the plot's surprising twists), let's just say that in the second half of the book Hardy pulls out all the stops and sets Jude and his true love Sue down a path of unremitting grief, loss, and bewilderment. Hardy appears to be shooting for drama on the scale of Greek tragedy, with Jude confirming as much by likening himself to Agamemnon. The problem for me is that this story--two individuals clashing with the mores of Victorian England--is just not a stout enough framework to hang all the extreme emotions and heavy drama that Hardy unleashes. Jude and Sue have, as a couple, simply flouted Victorian morality by getting divorces and living together; and Jude, individually, had the gall to think that he, a working-class lout, could gain entry into the hallowed halls of English higher learning. I kept wondering why they didn't just pull up stakes, forsake small-town life and move to London where people wouldn't care as much. But Hardy turns it all into a transgression against cosmic law (at least that becomes Sue's view of things), requiring cosmic revenge through a tragic turn of events--again, like Greek tragedy.

The problem for me is that Hardy's made it pretty clear in the first part of the book he thinks societal norms about marriage and class are hidebound, stifling, and absurd. For the first part of the book they're mere social constructs that are worthy of scorn and rebellion; then they suddenly become eternal values, the violation of which results in awful, tragic consequences.

I wondered if Hardy was just making fun of Victorian morality, skewering its self-importance by inflating it to the inappropriate level of high tragedy. But Hardy is too believable a dramatist for one to conclude that all the howling and agony are there just for sport. The drama may be more than the situation justifies, but it's compellingly and artfully written. The moral of the tale seems to be, then, that those who flout society are doomed to a tragic end. Or maybe just that this particular couple was doomed to a tragic end for flouting society. Either way, I find it pretty unconvincing.

It's too bad that Hardy couldn't have drawn more on the satirical in his writing; it appears he had a wry sense of humor. One description of marriage (between Jude and Arabella): "The landlord of the lodging...had doubted if they were married at all...till by chance overhearing her one night haranguing Jude in rattling terms, and ultimately flinging a shoe at his head, he recognized the note of genuine wedlock; and concluding that they must be respectable, said no more." Hardy also seems to be giving a bit of a wink with names he uses: "Sue Bridehead" for the most reluctant bride on earth; "Sarcophogus College" for one of the dreary, morbid schools at Christminster; "Mildew Lane" as the address of gloomy lodgings in which Sue stays; and "Temperence Hotel" where Jude and Arabella are anything but temperate.

But these instances of humor are mere blips on the screen in "Jude". Hardy seems determined to cast his story in terms of sin and retribution, drenched in misery and anguish. It seemed overplayed, hence unsatisfying.
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(Weird)
『This book was okay, as in it kept me reading, and it was sad. However, it reminded me too much Breaking Dawn, fourth book of that dreaded Twilight series. The women in both these books go from one spectrum to another and that's just too irritating for me to read (but this book was more tolerable than Breaking Dawn, which just plain sucked).』
『Now considered his best work, Thomas Hardy's novel about a stonemason excluded from the privileged world of learning by class, and his relationship with an emancipated woman, scandalized the late Victorian establishment and marked the end of his career as a novelist. This new Penguin Classics edition reprints the original 1895 edition and includes Hardy's "Postscript" of 1912.』
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タイトル『 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit > 『 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit > 『 Sexing the Cherry (Winterson, Jeanette) > 『 Sexing the Cherry (Winterson, Jeanette) > 『 The Passion > 『 The Passion > 『 The Well of Loneliness: A 1920s Classic of Lesbian Fiction > 『 The Well of Loneliness: A 1920s Classic of Lesbian Fiction > 『 Written on the Body > 『 Written on the Body > 『 The Far East Comes Near: Autobiographical Accounts of Southeast Asian Students in America > Jeanette Winterson


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(I didn't like it...)
『I was disappointed with this book. It was confusing and annoying to me. The first half didn't seem to have much relevence to the rest of the book, and a lot the stories thrown in between the chapters seemed like they didn't belong in the book at all. Some of them made no sense to me.

I thought the characters were too shallow, and the main character hardly seemed to convey any emotion at all. I couldn't even tell how she felt about any of the experiences she went through, and the author didn't go into enough detail about important parts of the story. The more I read of this book, I felt lost and confused. Some of the minor characters had nearly no description of who they are in the book. By the time I got to the later half of the book, I couldn't remember who some of the characters were because there was almost no information given about them in the earlier chapters they appeared in.

Also, I felt like the main character was too detached in her relationships. To me, it was as if the women she supposedly loved didn't matter very much to her or make a lasting impact on her life. I also thought the book would be more about her relationships than it turned out to be, but those parts of the story didn't last long. I had hoped this book would be different, as I have read a lot of other books that also lacked depth and emotion.

Maybe this book is meaningful to some readers, but it wasn't one I enjoyed reading. I couldn't relate to any of the characters, and by the time I got to the end of the book, I felt irritated by them. It's not that I think it's a badly written book, but it wasn't what I had been hoping for.』

(Juicy Fruit)
『This is my favorite book by this author. The innocence and coming-of-age aspect makes the main character fully sympathetic and compelling. The conflict with her religious upbringing is well-crafted. And Winterson's prose, as always, is delicious. Makes me proud to be a lesbian.Verge』

(Pretty good.)
『I definitely think this is a good read but it wasn't as enthralling as other autobiographical/memoirs of homosexuality from what I could tell. It seems she pulled a lot from her life, but it's still fiction.』

(Coming of Age Story)
『I was introduced to this wonderful book through my Brit Lit class. Winterson does an excellent job engaging the audience through her coming-of-age-novel. Not only is her novel about the struggles of homosexuality, loss of religion, and trying to find out where one fits in the world, but it is also about power struggles in relationships. Winterson weaves her semi-autobiographical novel with short fairy tales that delves deep into the psych.』

(Very different but very interesting and quite good)
『This book was part of an extracurricular reading assignment for a college-related book club led by an English prof. Regardless of the opinions of the 20 participants when they entered the class, when the 90 minute class ended, the majority agreed they liked it and found it quirky but quite good. I would recommend it for the experienced reader and I DO plan to read other works by the same author.』
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Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.

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タイトル『 The Best Revenge > 『 The Best Revenge > 『 St. Nacho's > 『 St. Nacho's > 『 Bottled Up > 『 Bottled Up > 『 Love Means No Shame > 『 Love Means No Shame > 『 The Happy Onion > 『 The Happy Onion > 『 Rush in the Dark: Common Powers 2 > Andrew Grey


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(Sweet, sensuous and satisfying)
『It was the smoldering look in the eyes of the nude man on the cover of "The Best Revenge" that first caught my attention. The beautiful picture of the artist and his inspiring, sexy mate comes to life in this enchanting story of two men whose common experience of rejection in their lives brings them together to create their own family. The story is full of tender moments as Tyler shares his life and home with Mark. They also share the troubles that arise, and some surprises (not all happy ones) make the story interesting. I really like how the other characters in Tyler and Mark's world complete the picture, and it's nice to learn more about some of them in Grey's next book. I've read "The Best Revenge" twice now, and the sweetness, first from the sadness in Mark and Tyler's lives, and then from the happiness, is what stays with me.』

(The Best Revenge)
『Tyler O'Connor, owner of Tyler's Antiques, is pleased to get a call from a woman who wants to sell some antiques. At her house that evening, he purchases several items from her and meets her son, Mark Burke. He's even more pleased when Mark shows up at his store a few days later and asks him out.

They go to dinner, and everything seems perfect, at least until Mark shows up at Tyler's store a few days later, dripping wet and upset. He tells Tyler his mother kicked him out of her house after she found out about Mark and Tyler's date. Tyler offers Mark a place to stay, and Mark agrees. Will this be the end of Tyler and Mark's fledgling relationship, or the beginning of something even better?

The Best Revenge is a sweet tale of two men who get what they need in an unexpected way. Tyler and Mark are likeable characters, both hurt by the way others treated them but both able to move forward and embrace love and happiness when it's offered to them. There are a lot of interesting characters, such as Mark's family members and Tyler's friends. The conflicts are pretty standard, dealing with Mark's bigoted brother and family rejection, but they still kept my interest. Overall, The Best Revenge was enjoyable but I didn't love it. The dialogue was often stilted and unnatural, and at some points everything just seemed too perfect.


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『Tyler O'Connor, a successful antiques dealer, meets aspiring artist Mark Burke when Mark's mother decides to sell some of her antiques collection. Tyler is enchanted by the quiet, reserved artist and works up the courage to ask Mark to dinner. Despite the date's success and their mutual attraction, Mark's happiness takes a blow when his mother learns that he is gay and throws him out of the house. Unsure of where to go, Mark shows up on Tyler's doorstep and finds shelter. Tyler's encouragement and support help kick-start Mark's career, especially when Mark finds that Tyler inspires him in the bedroom as well as the studio. But they're daunted when bad memories of the past, struggles in the present, and fear for the future strain Mark and Tyler's budding relationship. As the old saying goes, the best revenge is living well-and in this case-loving well, and with that in mind, Mark and Tyler go in search of happily ever after.』
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タイトル『 All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C. > 『 All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C. > 『 Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore > 『 Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore > 『 City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s > 『 City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s > 『 Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking > 『 Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking > 『 Object of Desire > 『 Object of Desire > 『 Brutal Uncut > Craig Seymour


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(Good, as far as it goes)
『I picked this book up with great interest, because I wanted to know what "really" goes on in the world of strippers. I found that this was essentially an apololgia, rather than an expose. The author does spends the first half of the book exploring both his motives and the supposed motives of the men that paid him, then goes into an extended rationalization for his activities, followed with a rather uninteresting account of his life since. What we have is a justification for a man doing exactly what he wanted to do, which includes hurting his lover. When his lover says, in effect, "why ask my opinion, you're going to do it anyway", he is dead on. There isn't much here that is news.』

(Great book)
『This was a great book. Engaging from first page to last. I hope he continues writing books.』

(well crafted, vivid, funny, and a little heartbreaking)
『I thoroughly loved this book on a variety of levels.

The Prurient: I am not a gay man, so the world of gay strip clubs is one of the parts of the sex industry I'll never be able to engage with in an authentic way. I mean, sure, I can tip the boys on the bar, but it's just not the same. But I sure like dick, and I like reading about dick being fondled and stroked in a bar. Also, I pretty much never tire of funny and weird stories of sex work clients, especially when they are told in a tender way, as they are in this book.

The Bigger Life Picture: So many memoirs by sex workers are just about that sex working slice of their life, though maybe also they include stuff about the non-sex work intimate relationships that are concurrent with their time in the biz. This book is fabulous not just because you learn about where Craig was before the sex industry (there's only a bit of that), but you see what becomes of him once he leaves the business, which is awesome and inspiring. Plus, his experiences in the sex biz connect really strongly with who he becomes - he is critical of the times he compartmentalizes, and it's fabulous to see the thinky stuff happening.

The Storytelling: I really appreciate Craig Seymour as a writer - the book was a joy to read, well crafted, vivid, funny, and a little heartbreaking all at once.』

(The Man in the Full Length Mirror)
『It is easy to urge you now to go out and buy this, download it to your Kindle, wait for the paperback (available soon) and make it a must-for any summer reading you plan on doing. It is a rarely seen glimpse of a side of life that most would never dare enter. The story unfolds with charm and wit, an effervescent ease and a whole lot of heart that almost rubs off on the reader to some extent.

What struck me as most interesting is that we all pursue this overwhelming need to be desired at the most primal or cellular level. This is played to great effect in this memoir, and no place is that more prominent in the genuine affection that was taken to render the characters. Mr. Seymour's greatest skill is to report sympathetically on people that most of us would not ponder deeply. His forthright attitude and frankness could not have been easy, and yet he does so in a way that does not tell you what you should believe about these people, nor does he apologize for a love that dare not speak its name. The love that a regular client has for this hunk of human flesh and how all that can become is more complex than our lasting puritanical legacy can appreciate as Americans.

If you are repulsed by the idea of strippers, or have preconceived notions, you may just find yourself looking through the looking glass like Alice. It may make you experience a life that you'd never once considered and find how much you have in common with them or not. Only to get home, and thank Auntie Em! Or you might finish with your prejudices intact. Since I was of this world, in a parallel universe - it pleased me to no end to see the road less traveled. It would please me to have this taught in every school that could feasibly do so without backlash. As the world of go-go boys, strippers, and such shrinks as the Gay culture inches toward mainstream acceptability and respectability so they can have their gay marriage this is an endangered species.

NOTE: Unlike Snarky Yarborough the reviewer, I think there is more than a bit of projection going on over there, and bit of resentment for the attacks are fairly subjective and seem to have little to do with the journey the book offers, and are positively repulsively moralistic at one point. Which makes me think that its some funky hairy lesbian with some daddy/husband issues, or part of the moral brigade, or as I suspect - just too ugly with nothing to offer as a stripper. It must suck with people like Paris Hilton running the world for them.

Many have made this pilgrimage, and I dare say very few could find such humor, heart, and goodwill and parable as Craig Seymour could have.
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(A Passive and Naive Look at Stripping in DC)
『All I Could Bare by Craig Seymour is really two stories in one. The first is how Craig became obsessed with the gay strip clubs of DC and fueled his obsession by writing a thesis about strippers and the people who go to these clubs. Craig ends up experiencing the life first hand by eventually becoming a stripper himself.

What follows is bar gossip about Craig's regular customers and the antics he participated in to make a buck. This eventually leads to sexual favors in exchange for money. The story becomes less and less about Craig exploring the culture behind stripping, and more and more about the money he made doing it and the sexual satisfaction he got from having numerous strangers fondle his goods.

Craig dedicates the book to Seth, a young man who he was dating at the time. Craig says this is just as much Seth's story as it is his. Unfortunately, we don't see much of Seth in the book or get his side of the story. One can predict that's because Seth wasn't too happy about Craig's choices, especially when Craig wanted to experience sex with other people, but he knew he didn't have much of a say so because Craig was stubborn and was going to do whatever he wanted. Seth even tells him "I feel like you're going to do what you want to do."

It's nice to finally see Seth grow a pair on page 168 when Craig tells him about a sexual experience he just had with someone else. At this point in the story, Craig has stopped stripping and is working for a sex clinic and passing out condoms in bars and bathhouses. Imagine someone in a stable relationship and getting paid to promote safe sex, but wanting to sleep around on their partner! Geez, Craig, are you really that stupid? Seth asks him to move out. Here's Craig's reply...

"His request shocked me. I couldn't believe that what was so insignificant in my mind had led him to such a life-changing decision. Why couldn't he be cool with this like he had been with everything else? Where was my second chance?"

At this point, I wanted to throw this book across the room. Was the author really that naive? If it was so insignificant, why did he do it? Why did he mess up a seven year relationship just to experiment with someone else? And why does he think he deserves a second chance. I would have kicked him out too. On the very next page, he asks Seth again if this is what he really wants, but he couldn't even promise Seth that he'd never do it again. That's a stereotypical gay man for you! And Craig never once admits fault. He says later that he and Seth are just good friends and each moved on.

The second story is basically Craig bragging about how he became a magazine and newspaper writer and got to meet and interview Janet Jackson, Maria Carey, and Mary J. Blige. Supposedly, his experience in the strip clubs helped him be more honest and forward in his interviews. He tries again and again to relate his new situation to the theme of the story - those strip clubs - but it just doesn't work. The hard truth for Craig comes on page 173...

"I wasn't even enjoying having sex anymore, yet I was hooking up constantly...There was no more mystery. Sex had taken on a harder edge."

I half expected Craig to join a support group or get AIDS. Anything would have been more exciting than his passive voice telling us about the clubs closing down and how much he'll miss that part of his history and how sad he was. The book is riddled with cliche references to songs like Madonna's "This Used to Be My Playground." And to show you how self absorbed the author is, on page 238 he mentions checking into a "gay old folks home" and looking around to see if he turns heads. The sad truth comes in this sentence: "I just hope this perpetual need doesn't stand in the way of my finding some kind of happiness."

I loathe people like this who have everything they want, but have no idea it's right in front of them. They use and abuse. They break hearts and whine when theirs gets broken. And then they write a book about it and still learn nothing from it. Enjoy this book for the sexual innuendos, but if I were you, I'd stop reading when Craig leaves the clubs. His pretentious story isn't worth the tree that died for his words to be printed on.』
『A FRANK, FUNNY, EXPLICIT, AND INSPIRING MEMOIR ABOUT HOW DANCING NAKED IN GAY CLUBS IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL HELPED A COLLEGE PROFESSOR DISCOVER HIS TRUE SELF.

I felt that I'd made a transformation as surely as Superman slipping out of a phone booth or Wonder Woman doing a sunburst spin. I was bare-ass in a room of paying strangers, a stripper. After years of wondering what it would be like, I had done it -- faced a fear, defied expectation, embraced a taboo self. It was only the beginning....

All I Could Bareis the story of a mild-mannered graduate student who "took the road less clothed" -- a decision that was life changing. Seymour embarked on his journey in the 1990s, when Washington, D.C.'s gay club scene was notoriously no-holds-barred, all the while trying to keep his newfound vocation a secret from his parents and maintain a relation-ship with his boyfriend, Seth. Along the way he met some unforgettable characters -- the fifty-year-old divorcé who's obsessed with a twenty-one-year-old dancer, the celebrated drag diva who hailed from a small town in rural Virginia, and the many straight guys who were "gay for pay." Seymour gives us both the highs (money, adoration, camaraderie) and the lows (an ill-fated attempt at prostitution, a humiliating porn audition).

Ultimately coming clean about his secret identity, Seymour breaks through taboos and makes his way from booty-baring stripper to Ph.D.-bearing academic, taking a detour into celebrity journalism and memorably crossing paths with Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, and Mary J. Blige along the way. Hilarious, insight-ful, and touching,All I Could Bareproves that sometimes the "wrong decision" can lead to the right place.』

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タイトル『 False Colors: An M/M Romance > 『 False Colors: An M/M Romance > 『 Transgressions: An M/M Romance > 『 Transgressions: An M/M Romance > 『 Hard Fall > 『 Hard Fall > 『 Tigers and Devils > 『 Tigers and Devils > 『 Faith&Fidelity > 『 Faith&Fidelity > 『 Frost Fair > Alex Beecroft >  price：$7.77   Running Press  Usually ships in 24 hours Core2Duoノートレビュー 's review (Pleasant Surprise) 『I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I like historical fiction. I like nautical fiction. I like gay romance. To find all three combined into one pretty good read was enjoyable. The characters are well developed and believable and the time period is captured well. I will recommend this book to others.』 (Historic romance as it should be) 『False Colors by Ms Beecroft is a highly entertaining, fast-paced, moving story by an author who loves what she's doing and does it well. This book is not just fancy costume play. You'll get the pretty uniforms and great sailboats, and you'll get the stink and squalor that go with them. But Ms Beecroft has a real knack for creating not just historical context, but also erotic and emotional tension. The anticipation really kept me turning the page, fearing what would happen next, hoping for John and Alfie to make it. I would have loved for the book to be longer than it was. A real treat for anyone who wants gay romance without fluff!』 (This book saves the best read for the last pages of the book) 『The cover of this book caught my eyes in the book store and I didn't even think it was a gay romance novel at first but I just liked the looks of the cover. I read a few pages there right there and I just wanted to read more. Those only a few pages already made me to buy this book. From the first page to the last I read half dreamingly, me in the story. It was beautifully written and of course,the author saved the best gay sex scene to the end but do NOT read the best sex scene at the last pages first. I loved this book so much that I was so sad to finish it up. I still don't know how she wrote this book without ever experiencing male gay sex herself ! It was much more than gay male writer can describe the love between two males without getting dirty. I truly recommend this book to all the gay men in the world.』 (NOT Romance, horribly gruesome, slow, difficult to read, and NOT sexy AT ALL) 『***SPOILERS NEAR THE END OF THE REVIEW*** First off, I have to say that I've never read anything in this genre before. And by "this" genre I mean age-of-sail historical fiction. It's possible that this title isn't something that a novitiate to the genre should read, however, it's where I started. Just to get the facts straight though, this isn't romance. There are romantic elements throughout the story but if you're looking for some hot sexy men getting it on, then look elsewhere. Tacking on "An M/M Romance" to the front cover is pure marketing at its best. I have to say that the first half of this book made my brain numb with all the nautical terms. I don't think I'm completely ignorant of these things, but there were full sentences where I had no idea what the words meant. You'd think you'd at least be able to figure out what's going on from the context, but no, I was stumped most of the time, and I had to just read on and hope that I'd understand eventually. I suppose I could have looked up the words but I just didn't care enough. You're basically thrown into the seafaring world headfirst and the author assumes you'll understand, and this was frustrating. In the middle of the book the two main characters tried to find just about every possible horrible situation they could get into that would keep them away from each other. Whether it was one being captured and tortured, the other getting gravely wounded, then the other one being captured and tortured, both men finding sexual gratification with other men, the court martial of one of them for being gay, or when they somehow ended up on the Titanic. That last bit is a joke, but only marginally so. Finally, to add insult to injury, the last few chapters of the book are spent with the two men being angry at each other because they both think the other one wronged them, when it's all just one big misunderstanding. And then the last three pages of the book they finally have sex with each other. That's where it ends. Sigh ... It's not as if I wanted them to jump in bed right from the get-go. And I understand that in those times being gay was an offense that could get you hanged, but waiting until the last chapter for them to finally be with each other was a bit much. And it makes me wonder what they're going to do now that they've had sex. It's not as if they can live with each other happily ever after. The author ends the book with sex even though the rest of the book is all about the trials and lives of the two men. Now that they've had sex everything is perfect, right, and all their previous troubles go away? Who knows, since it's left to the reader to decide. Maybe they get found out and hanged the next week. Finally, another thing that I had a problem with were all the gruesome bits. I wasn't expecting people being strung up with their arms behind their back so their shoulders "ground out of their sockets," or how the people being burned alive were trying to escape their cages and had their fingers chopped off. The part that really made me upset was the 9 year old boy that drowned when he went back to save his pet bird when the ship hit an iceberg and the lower quarters filled with water. And of course we had to have descriptions of how all the livestock had drowned. And then the part when they were visiting the people with the plague in the hospital (yellow fever, I think) and the officers kept getting puked on. It would be interesting to count how many times human excrement, urine, and other bodily fluids are mentioned, because I'm sure the results are staggering. And then there was the sexual encounter with the man with the rotting tooth ... ::shudders:: So I have to say that I didn't enjoy this book all that much. If I could, I'd give it 1-1/2 stars because it wasn't the absolute worst thing I've ever read. Maybe it was too "real" for me and it didn't have enough fluff in it, but if a book has the word Romance on the cover, I'm expecting at least some romance before I get to the last chapter. I can't say that I'd never read something from this author again, but I'll definitely think twice.』 (This novel has it all) 『This is part of a longer review. [...] False Colors is a novel that's half a poignant story of ships-passing-in-the-night male love, and half rip-roaring, swashbuckling, cannon-exploding, pirate fighting, iceberg-ramming Age of Sail adventure. Beecroft puts her characters through physical torture--literally--with stomach-turning details, and through psychological torture just as excruciating. This is one female author who can write convincingly of men at sea and men in lust and love. The erotic scenes are well done, and worked seamlessly into the story. But the characters of John Cavendish and Alfie Donwell are finely drawn and the story so compelling that the sex scenes could be taken out and I wouldn't miss them. The heart and the sinews of this book are not in scenes of physical sex but in the tormented souls of two young naval officers drawn inexorably to each other in a time when such love could put them both on a gallows. John and Alfie are separated through much of the book, but are never far from one another's thoughts, though often the thoughts are bitter. And when they are together, they are at cross purposes. The last chapter is one of the most truly erotic scenes I've ever seen, because it has everything--physical sensation, humor, tenderness, impatience--the works. Beecroft's research, as always, has been exhaustive; every sentence throbs with authenticity. She immerses you in research and detail so neatly that you don't even think about it. You don't read about bloody decks, splintered masts, and pirates burning men alive; you experience them. You can feel the manacles tear John's wrists down to the bone. You can smell the roasting flesh and hear the screams. You feel the unbearable cold of the Arctic ice and feel the fear of every man aboard, knowing a certain death waits as their ship fills with icy water as the deadly beauty of an iceberg towers over them. Beecroft's skills have advanced amazingly since Captain's Surrender. I can only wonder what she has in store for us next. Want a great story with both adventure and romance? Get this one! Reviewer: Ruth Sims author of The Phoenix (Lethe Press)』 『 1762, The Georgian Age of Sail: For his first command, John Cavendish is given a ship—the HMSMeteor—and a crew, both in need of repair and discipline. He’s determined to make a success of their first mission, and hopes the well-liked lieutenant Alfred Donwell will stand by his side as he leads his new crew into battle: stopping the slave trade off the coast of Algiers. Alfie knows their mission is futile, and that their superiors back in England will use the demise of this crew as impetus for war with the Ottoman Empire. But the darker secret he keeps is his growing attraction for his commanding officer—a secret punishable by death. With the arrival of his former captain—and lover—on the scene of the disastrous mission, Alfie is torn between the security of his past and the uncertain promise of a future with the straight-laced John. Against a backdrop of war, intrigue, and personal betrayal, the high seas will carry these men through dangerous waters from England to Africa to the West Indies in search of a safe harbor. 』

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