false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212159597m/51588.jpg 51588 4 <div>Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles becomes the object of his friends’ passions and, one after another, they ransack him for love or anything else they can trust in the vacuum of middle America. What they find assaults the senses as it engages the mind, in a novel that explores the limits of experience. </div> 407625 3 3 1995 Closer total:262|5:81|4:98|3:57|2:13|1:13| 262 1007 337 25 563730 080213212X 9780802132123 59 11 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175820770m/563730.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563730.Closer 5 3 false Wed Jul 11 09:49:45 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 14 20:49:32 -0800 2007 more...]]> 51588 2867444616 9782867444616 201 14 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212159597m/51588.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51588.Closer 0 2 false Fri Aug 31 07:16:05 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 07:16:05 -0700 2007 563730 080213212X 9780802132123 59 11 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175820770m/563730.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563730.Closer 2 1 false Mon Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 13:20:32 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 06:04:36 -0700 2008 Closer is Dennis Cooper's first novel in a pentology of novels about George Miles, who in this novel is the beloved figure for half a dozen high school boys, all gay and all pretty much cool with it. George gets involved with a middle-aged French man named Philippe, and through that connection trave...more...]]> 563730 080213212X 9780802132123 59 11 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175820770m/563730.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563730.Closer 4 1 false Wed Sep 19 20:42:29 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 20:53:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 563730 080213212X 9780802132123 59 11 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175820770m/563730.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563730.Closer 4 0 false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 01:16:22 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 01:48:04 -0800 2009
This book should be exceedingly disturbing, but it isn't. You don't notice how disturbing it should be because none of the characters seem to notice. Once a ch...more...]]> 51588 2867444616 9782867444616 201 14 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212159597m/51588.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51588.Closer 4 8 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 03:46:29 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 09:02:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 51588 2867444616 9782867444616 201 14 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212159597m/51588.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51588.Closer 5 1 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Mar 20 19:33:07 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 20 19:35:49 -0700 2007 51588 2867444616 9782867444616 201 14 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212159597m/51588.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51588.Closer 3 0 false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Mar 01 11:39:14 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 11:39:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 51588 2867444616 9782867444616 201 14 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212159597m/51588.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51588.Closer 3 0 false Thu Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 00:39:33 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 11:25:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 51588 2867444616 9782867444616 201 14 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212159597m/51588.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51588.Closer 4 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 15:07:07 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 14:04:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 563730 080213212X 9780802132123 59 11 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175820770m/563730.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563730.Closer 1 -1 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Mar 08 23:22:19 -0800 2007 Sun Mar 11 13:37:08 -0700 2007
more fantasies about disaffected pretty gay boys doing drugs and having sex to cartoonish degrees. when i say that i mean EVERY character is gay, EVERY character does drugs, and EVERY character thinks about nothing but sex. CONSTANTLY. i don't get...more...]]> 51588 2867444616 9782867444616 201 14 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212159597m/51588.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51588.Closer 5 0 false Mon Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 25 22:15:59 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 28 22:15:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 563730 080213212X 9780802132123 59 11 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175820770m/563730.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563730.Closer 3 0 false Wed Dec 24 20:02:44 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 16:53:08 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 20:02:44 -0800 2008 51588 2867444616 9782867444616 201 14 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212159597m/51588.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51588.Closer 2 0 false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 07:49:07 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 07:53:08 -0700 2009 51588 2867444616 9782867444616 201 14 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212159597m/51588.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51588.Closer 5 0 false Tue Dec 02 14:37:56 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 14:37:56 -0800 2008 563730 080213212X 9780802132123 59 11 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175820770m/563730.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563730.Closer 4 0 false Tue Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 16:14:55 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 10:01:21 -0700 2008 Safe -- I found Closer to read a bit like a more straightforward Bret Easton Ellis novel. The drugs and M2M sex were there, but the characters were a bit more prone to emotion and raw sentimentality than BEE's characters.

This is also one of the darkest...more...]]> 563730 080213212X 9780802132123 59 11 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175820770m/563730.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563730.Closer 3 0 false Wed Feb 27 10:26:52 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 23:47:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 51588 2867444616 9782867444616 201 14 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212159597m/51588.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51588.Closer 5 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Thu Apr 10 08:31:39 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 06:16:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 51588 2867444616 9782867444616 201 14 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212159597m/51588.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51588.Closer 4 0 false Tue Jun 03 20:08:14 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 20:11:22 -0700 2008 563730 080213212X 9780802132123 59 11 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175820770m/563730.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563730.Closer 3 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 08:15:15 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 11:36:29 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=51588