Voice of Force
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Voice of Force
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Jun 02, 2010
Phillipanchor rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Although the tags for this book have been labeled "Gay Novel," this book is much more than that. In the larger sense, it's really a philosophical novel about sexual difference. For Voice of Force in essence asks some simple questions: Has increased awareness of sexuality and difference truly helped us live more harmonious lives? Or has it merely compelled people to mask the prejudice they inherit from traditions and institutions beneath a civilized veneer?

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Jun 11, 2010
Jerri rated it: 4 of 5 stars
G. Roger Denson’s novel Voice of Force is touted to be about men, but there is a lot said in it about women too. Written as a dossier from the Manhattan Prosecution’s office leaked to the public, the contents we gradually find out tell the history of a controversial criminal case. Diary passages and transcripts of prison conversations indicate that a murder has led to the conviction of a man who maintains his innocence despite that, after three years on death row, he faces imminent execution. More...
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Jun 13, 2010
Brianvalint rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Voice of Force has a lot of subtle things going for it. At first I didn’t see why the author did things like strike through text, as if he was just leaving it there as he wrote spontaneously and didn’t bother to come back and erase it. Or why he let a black rectangle stand in for a diary entry he became ashamed of having written the day before out of anger. Or why he felt it necessary to have newspaper articles inform us of events rather than just write them as he wrote of earlier events.
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Jun 15, 2010
Antonmyles rated it: 5 of 5 stars
It’s always a reward to come upon a novel with highly intelligent characters, something hard to find these days. It puts their flaws and mishaps into greater relief. And in this case their prejudice.

I never before realized to what extent things like family and profession set the die of our lives. Even the landscapes in this novel determine why people do things.

Two themes run throughout the novel, each pulling at the other. The first is the force of destiny. The secon More...
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