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Now Is the Hour

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The year is 1967, and Rigby John Klusener, seventeen years old and finally leaving his home and family in Pocatello, Idaho, is on the highway with his thumb out and a flower behind his ear, headed for San Francisco. Now Is the Hour is the wondrous story of how Rigby John got to this point. It traces his gradual emancipation from the repressions of a strictly religious farm...more

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Published May 15th 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published 2006)

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Aug 10, 2011 Nicole rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: those drawn to character-based stories. Plot, schmot.

Shelves: lgbt-etc, historical-fiction, re-reads

Original review August 31, 2009:

I'm not going to lie, this book took a solid 100 pages to really get into. But once I was in, I was IN. All the way. I cried to have to turn the last page. It's like a cross between Steinbeck and Kerouac with some SE Hinton thrown in for good measure, a YA version of _East of Eden_.

The setting (rural Idaho in the late 1960s) seemed pitch-perfect, the character was believable and engaging (once we got over our initial hump), and the emotional development was well d...more

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Apr 09, 2012 Felicia rated it 2 of 5 stars

First off, The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon is one of my great loves. In the City of Shy Hunters: i wept and wept. I tried to come up with $2500 tuition when i heard that Tom Spanbauer was going to teach at Esalen. But this book -- Now is the Hour? Sigh. I do think that Mr. Spanbauer may be incapable of writing a bad sentence. But a bunch of good sentences don't always clasp hands and become a great book. I couldn't get over the feeling that i was reading about his not-super-stand-outtish...more

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Aug 26, 2010 Karen Hansen rated it 1 of 5 stars

I picked up Tom Spanbauer’s “Now is The Hour” at a Goodreads bookswap in Hollywood. The back cover looked promising and it had praise from other authors that I respect. This book fell flat and was well below my expectations.

I felt more than anything, that the story needed drastic editing. It could have conveyed the same point with about a hundred less pages. Spanbauer uses repetition, with phrases and ideas, as a stylistic choice. It drove me nuts. I bogged down the pace.

It’s a coming of age s...more

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Apr 08, 2010 Carie rated it 5 of 5 stars

this is my first spanbauer book. i read a review about it somewhere, maybe the new york times, so i put it on my to-read list a few months ago. i finally got to it about a week ago.

it's hard to put down after "Bless us, O fucking Lord, and these Thy fucking gifts", which happens pretty early on.

even though it's over 500 pages, it's very easy to read due to the dumbed-down vocabulary and lack of punctuation. it got a little holden caufieldy and it does ramble on at times. but it's very honest and...more

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Apr 22, 2009 Gayle rated it 4 of 5 stars

At first, this book was slow going for me, hard to get into. I almost didn't make it past the first 50 pages--it may have been my mood at the time--but I hung in there because of Nicole's soaring review. Then, at some point, maybe after I accepted what I felt was an annoying structural device of slipping back and forth through time (it kind of kills the mystery for me, when I know something about the character from the beginning, as he looks back on the past and retells his story--I'd much rathe...more

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Aug 10, 2011 Karri rated it 5 of 5 stars

I. freaking. LOVED. this. book. Loved it like.... two lips against two lips, soft with a kind of suck, tobacco, and the taste of pink.

I loved Spanbauer's writing style, the strong voice he gave to Rigby John Klusener,Grandma Queep, the rural small-town America setting, the color of Billie Cody's nail polish (Midnight in Helsinki),the parmesan cheese, Georgy Girl and red neckties around bald heads, the four slices of roast beef served with Heinz 57 ketchup and mashed potatoes in the green bowl a...more

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May 24, 2008 Jen rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone, with the caveat that something might suck about it

I remember I kept complaining about this book while I was reading it but now I don't remember what the problem was. Something about the prose being... cheesy? Repetitive? Predictable? What was it? But now I only have good memories of the book: it totally swept me up and I wanted to read it all the time. That is what I want in a novel. Also, it was hella gay, which is always a plus. I think it probably made me cry.

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Dec 16, 2008 Alicia rated it 3 of 5 stars

I am not sure why but this is my third coming out novel in a row. It must be a year for literary novels about the trials and traumas of being gay in contemporary America. The coming out story is quite muted in this novel and instead this novel is positioned more as a coming of age novel. For much of the book the main character has a girlfriend and both are quite puzzled by the lack of sexual experimentation.

More striking is the fact that all three of the novel I have read lately have featured di...more

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Apr 14, 2013 Sergsab rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Esta novela es una oda a la huida. Al hecho de perderse lejos de donde uno puede ser fácilmente encontrado. Un absoluto festival literario en el que el chico que huye nos cuenta en primera persona todo aquello que lo está empujando hacia direcciones desconocidas. Empujones violentos procedentes de brazos fornidos, corazones rotos y plegarias desatendidas. Un combo de aciertos y fracasos que lanzarían a cualquiera lejos de la palabra hogar.

Spanbauer vuelve a hacerlo. Muchos años después de aquel...more

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Aug 27, 2010 Neil Mudde rated it 5 of 5 stars

A wonderful book about growing up in Pocatella Idaho, recalling Judy Garland's song about "I was born in a trunk at the Princess Theatre in Pocatella Idaho" off course the book has little to do with the song it is about a youth growing up there, living on a farm, Tom introduces us to many interesting characters in the book, once I started reading it I had difficulty putting it down, it is funny, sad but above all the author has a great understanding of life and human beings in his life, it is a...more

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Jan 03, 2010 Renee rated it 3 of 5 stars

I am always impressed with how frank Tom Spanbauer is in his writing. He doesn't cut the corners when it comes to all the things those rigid Victorians pretended didn't exist about the human body--bowel movements, burps, sex and sweat. I find it really refreshing how wiling he is to build in all these human things into his books. (If you don't like reading about those things, then don't read this book.)

Spanbaeur created some key phrases that were repeated in the story, like a chorus for a song....more

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Jun 29, 2012 Dana rated it 3 of 5 stars

I think I need to stop reading coming of age stories. The main characters are too melodramatic for my taste.

I read Now is the Hour for the first time my freshman year of college. I remember devouring this book and singing its praises. With my second read through, I found the book a bit tougher to get through and found myself skimming full sections. It's not that it's a bad book, really, it's just not an amazing book either. Spanbauer likes to repeat phrases a lot, especially the line "I love God...more I think I need to stop reading coming of age stories. The main characters are too melodramatic for my taste.

I read Now is the Hour for the first time my freshman year of college. I remember devouring this book and singing its praises. With my second read through, I found the book a bit tougher to get through and found myself skimming full sections. It's not that it's a bad book, really, it's just not an amazing book either. Spanbauer likes to repeat phrases a lot, especially the line "I love God so much right now". This line, in fact, was repeated so much, that it has stuck with me in a not so good way. The first time it was mentioned, it was powerful and effective. I would even argue that the last time it was mentioned, it held the same weight. But all the other times in between? It made me think the character was pretty fickle and fell in love a little to easily. Which, kind of puts a damper on the whole end of the novel. But, that might just be me being nitpicky tonight.

Overall, Now is the Hour is a good tale and I like the story as a whole, but I do not like the process in which we got there. It felt cliched at times with the bible thumping mother, the hard assed father, and the knocked up sister. Then, Rig, turned out to be perfect. That dynamic seemed contrived and forced and left me with kind of a bitter taste for the rest of the book. I felt like some of the reactions weren't believable and again, I feel like this may have been a novel about teenagers written by someone who obviously doesn't remember what it was like to be a teenager. I'm not saying that the portrayal was wrong, I'm just saying that it lacked depth.

Furthermore, the structure was confusing. I'm all for lack of quotation marks when it works for the story, but more times than I could count, I found myself not knowing if something pivotal was said out loud or said in the characters head. This disrupted the flow of the novel immensely. The presence of a quotation mark wouldn't have detracted from the novel, and in fact, would have probably made it clearer. There was no reason to leave it out other than the desire to be different.

Now is the Hour is worth a read, but it is not a book that is going to keep you coming back for more. If you're looking for a coming of age story, combined with a 1960's coming out tale, then this is a novel that I think attempts it with some grace. But, overall, this is a take it or leave it sort of tale. (less)

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Oct 21, 2010 Katie M. rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, queer

4 stars for the writing. I deeply love Spanbauer's writing, sort of in spite of myself. This time around the prose doesn't quite have the same freshness that it did in The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon: A Novel, but he uses this repetitive phrase technique - coming back to certain lines, or images, or words, over and over throughout the novel - that completely worked for me. It's a different kind of story than The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, but all the big, beautiful, larger-than-l...more

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Mar 02, 2009 Nic rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is one incredible novel. The images and experiences are so vividly rendered, I have trouble sleeping after reading even a chapter. I was blessed to take a three-day intensive workshop with Tom Spanbauer and I suspect some of this insomnia is due to his prose evoking the emotional intensity of that long weekend. Tom's calls the writing training he offers "Dangerous Writing" and he risks a high level of vulnerablity in his work which is what makes reading his prose such an amazing experience....more

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Jul 31, 2008 Jessica rated it 4 of 5 stars

I'm drawn to Tom Spanbauer for many reasons. He favors coming of age stories, wrought with questions of gender and/or sexual identity, religion, and race in small Idaho towns, usually seasoned liberally with music, nature, cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs (Now Is the Hour employs the coming-of-age-and-out-of-the-Pocatello,ID-Catholic-farm-closet storyline, with racism directed mostly towards the Native Americans on the adjacent reservation, and sprinkled abundantly with early Vietnam-era radio son...more I'm drawn to Tom Spanbauer for many reasons. He favors coming of age stories, wrought with questions of gender and/or sexual identity, religion, and race in small Idaho towns, usually seasoned liberally with music, nature, cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs (Now Is the Hour employs the coming-of-age-and-out-of-the-Pocatello,ID-Catholic-farm-closet storyline, with racism directed mostly towards the Native Americans on the adjacent reservation, and sprinkled abundantly with early Vietnam-era radio songs, golden hay fields and poplar trees, Viceroys, Budweiser, and joints). Also, Spanbauer writes sex scenes like no one else (poetic and hot--whether it's Hans Solo, hetero, or gay, or a good old orgy). And his writing style is always catchy, edgy, and unconventional. This includes grammar--this is a man who intentionally spells the word "different" as "differnt" for the bulk of the book and has no interest in the use of quotation marks.
But it is the narrative voice and character-driven plot of Now Is the Hour that validates Spanbauer as the creator of "Dangerous Writing," a technique on which he's taught workshops for years (perhaps the most famous "Dangerous Writing" workshop alum is Chuck Palahniuk, who went on to pen Fight Club). Spanbauer's prose isn't flowery, nor is it sophisticated, and only occasionally does it verge on eloquent (this is the beauty of using a 17-year-old male's first person point of view). Rather, Spanbauer's prose is driven by the raw, no-holds-barred, yet sweet voice of his protagonist, Rigby John and the heavy repetition of simple, key words and sentences.
Rigby John is endearing, but it's his supporting cast of characters that distinguish this coming-of-age/coming-out story from similar novels I've read. Spanbauer's characters are particularly skilled at blowing up the briefest act or minor indiscretion into the situation's most crazed and seemingly apocalyptic incarnation. Rigby John's dislike of the smell of melted Parmesan cheese at one character's house triggers a chain of absurd and cruel acts that ultimately lead Rigby John to a hot black asphalt highway, trying to thumb a ride to San Francisco with, you guessed it, a flower in his hair. This is where the story begins, and ends. Spanbauer bookends the beginning and ending very well, surprisingly well considering the high use of repetition in the end's content.
I do think that Spanbauer could have told this story more economically, and that perhaps he foreshadows all the chaos to come too strongly in the book's opening. These are the dangers of his particular storytelling style, and he bumps into them in this novel more than in his last effort, the wonderful The Man Who Fell In Love With the Moon. But the stories and characters in Rigby John's journey were more than rich enough for me to shut my critical writer's eyes and join Rigby John in retracing the back roads that led him to the side of that southern Idaho highway.(less)

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Jul 14, 2008 Núria rated it 2 of 5 stars

Recommended to Núria by: Raül

Shelves: prestados, literatura-en-ingles, 2008, siglo-xxi

Si hay algo que no perdono nunca a un libro es que me dé la sensación de que estoy perdiendo el tiempo. No soporto estar leyendo un libro y estar todo el rato pensando que podría estar leyendo otra cosa, algo que me llenara más, o si me apuráis algo que me diciera algo. Creo que su principal problema es que es demasiado largo y acaba siendo repetitivo. Hay páginas y páginas describiendo minuciosamente escenas y más escenas indestriables las unas de las otras que no aportan nada: ni hacen que la...more Si hay algo que no perdono nunca a un libro es que me dé la sensación de que estoy perdiendo el tiempo. No soporto estar leyendo un libro y estar todo el rato pensando que podría estar leyendo otra cosa, algo que me llenara más, o si me apuráis algo que me diciera algo. Creo que su principal problema es que es demasiado largo y acaba siendo repetitivo. Hay páginas y páginas describiendo minuciosamente escenas y más escenas indestriables las unas de las otras que no aportan nada: ni hacen que la historia avance ni dan más profundidad a los personajes.

No es un libro malo, pero tampoco me ha parecido para nada memorable. La historia es la de un niño que crece en un pueblo rural perdido en medio de ninguna parte y en una familia ultra-católica. La novela se inicia cuando el protagonista tiene 17 años y ha decidido marcharse de casa, porque la única forma de ser él mismo que tiene es romper con su familia. A partir de ahí nos cuenta cómo ha llegado hasta allí, cómo la amistad lo cambió y le sirvió para conocerse mejor a él mismo, cómo descubrió que era homosexual y también que de hecho dos hombres podrían quererse, y finalmente también por supuesto cómo se enamoró. Sobre el papel no está mal, pero para mí la cosa se alarga y se alarga y se alarga y se alarga innecesariamente.

Me ha gustado más la primera parte, la infancia llena de soledad y palizas de los abusones, el ambiente ultra-católico en el que todo es pecado y rezar el rosario, la relación del protagonista con su madre y su distanciamiento a medida que él se va haciendo mayor. Y la mayor pega que he encontrado al libro es el estilo. Es tremendamente repetitivo y si al principio en teoría puede tener su gracia, las últimas 200 páginas se me hizo insoportablemente engorroso. En un libro más corto puede resultar, pero en uno tan largo repetir incansablemente las mismas imágenes y las mismas descripciones, palabra por palabra, es agotador, totalmente superfluo y altamente irritante. (less)

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Apr 18, 2008 Curt rated it 5 of 5 stars

I love Tom Spanbauer. I love his writing, the poetry of his voice, the pace and unfolding of his craft. I read this book slowly because I knew from the first pages that I'd be tempted to speed through it only to find myself saddened by its completion. But today, finally, after months of withholding and rationing, I closed the book, took a deep breath and let it sink in. This is a book that is close to my heart. It's a story of self-discovery in Pocatello, Idaho, my hometown. Much of it takes pla...more

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Apr 24, 2008 Raül De Tena rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2008

Hace no mucho, en cierta conversación, confesaba que sí, que la mayor parte de productos culturales que me han producido un inefable vacío en el estómago tienen la peculiaridad de estar protagonizados por homosexuales. Al fin y al cabo, no podemos dejar las emociones en la mesita de noche cuando nos enfrentamos a determinadas historias... Esto es lo que me ha ocurrido precisamente con el libro de Tom Spanbauer. Pero, ¡ojo!, que un libro te toque de forma tan directa no significa que anule tu cap...more Hace no mucho, en cierta conversación, confesaba que sí, que la mayor parte de productos culturales que me han producido un inefable vacío en el estómago tienen la peculiaridad de estar protagonizados por homosexuales. Al fin y al cabo, no podemos dejar las emociones en la mesita de noche cuando nos enfrentamos a determinadas historias... Esto es lo que me ha ocurrido precisamente con el libro de Tom Spanbauer. Pero, ¡ojo!, que un libro te toque de forma tan directa no significa que anule tu capacidad crítica. Y en casos como el de Ahora es el momento, es inevitable acabar con la sensación que la calidad emocional y la calidad literaria se han dado la mano.

Resulta que Tom Spanbauer es el "maestro" de Chuck Pahlaniuk. Y eso, teniendo en cuenta que acabé por encallarme en el estilo repetitivo del autor de Fight Club, podría no ser del todo positivo. Así que, antes de abordar Ahora es el momento, intenté informarme sobre la llamada "dangerous writing": la escuela de Spanbauer enseña que hay que escribir sobre lo que nos avergüenza. Por ahí vamos bien. Pero también enseña que los personajes deben ir definidos por un conjunto de frases o conceptos recurrentes que se repetirán con frecuencia. Y eso es precisamente lo que me irrita, al fin y al cabo, del peor Pahlaniuk. Ahora bien, llegados a este punto es dónde se nota quién es el maestro y quién es el alumno, porque la pericia de Spanbauer reside en que sabe aplicar esta regla sin resultar simplista, ni repetitivo, ni efectista. Más bien todo lo contrario.

Ahora es el momento es un libro autobiográfico, aunque Spanbauer no practica el género como algo autocomplacitente. La visión de su juventud es, más bien, visceral e incómoda. La historia se estructura como un puzzle al que te ves arrojado de forma violenta: en el primer capítulo se plantean todos los recuerdos de juventud en forma de vómito narrativo, de forma que estos sucesos desconocidos se quedan en tu cabeza hasta que, en el resto del argumento, poco a poco, se van desarrollando de forma natural y cronológica. La historia de Rigby John Kluesener está narrada con una transparencia desarmante: la voz narrativa, absolutamente genial, se pone al nivel del joven que, supuestamente, está explicando sus recuerdos más recientes. La palabra "difrente", así, mal escrita, por ejemplo, adquiere una importancia vital desde el principio de la trama: Rigby John reacciona con aversión al hecho de que sus padres utilicen esta palabra de forma incorrecta, sin ver (o sin querer ver), que es una palabra que jugará mucha importancia en su propia vida.

En conclusión, Ahora es el momento narra eso que tantas veces hemos leído: el proceso de crecimiento de un niño que pasa a ser adolescente y ha de enfrentarse a ciertas decisiones y definiciones. En esta ocasión, sin embargo, habrá un componente añadido de lucha contra convenciones sociales y religiosas de la america profunda muy cercano a La Biblia de Neon (J.K. Toole). Spanbauer, sin embargo, en vez de optar por el autismo narrativo, se pone al nivel de los ojos de su protagonista (de él mismo, al fin y al cabo) y firma uno de esos libros que se te quedan dentro para siempre.(less)

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Feb 13, 2008 Ryan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is an excellent book. Even despite its contrivance and happy ending (which has grown on me these past few days). I'm starting to worry a bit that I relate less to the nihilism that seems to define my generation and more to the nostalgia and sentiment that defines the previous one. It makes me feel old-fashioned and unhip. Perhaps it's just that it's winter and I'm introspective.

ANYWAY, this book is filled with vivid, fully-realized characters, genuinely funny moments (I laughed out loud a...more

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Dec 09, 2012 Shannon Ferguson rated it 3 of 5 stars

I liked this book more than I expected, but I can't imagine that I'd actually recommend it to anyone. It was a fun read to get lost in, with a lot of touching adolescent moments and interesting characters. But our narrator was incredibly repetitive and hyperbolic, so I kept stumbling over the prose itself. Similarly, the inconsistencies in the characters' personalities were a bit of a distraction. All told, it was a good read, but not an amazing one.

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Apr 22, 2010 Missives From rated it 3 of 5 stars

If I taught a writing class, I would pass out copies of this book to teach my students how to write deeply developed characters and the art of breaking many of the rules of grammar (and why it sometimes works). This story probably contains one of the slowest story arcs in the history of fiction, so I don't recommend it as a pleasure read or for someone who likes a sharp plot. But as a study in fiction writing, it's solid.

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Jul 14, 2009 Ed rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is one of the best novels I've read in the last five years, right up there with Patrick Ryan's SEND ME. The lyricism of the writing was stunning and largely unexpected. I don't think I'll ever forget these characters, they were so wonderfully drawn and unique. I never knew a few months in a tiny Idaho farming town in 1967 could be so fascinating, hilarious, heartbreaking, and SEXY.

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Apr 23, 2013 Corban Damukaitis rated it 5 of 5 stars

Those were some great hours. I absolutely loved this book! I found spanbauer through Chuck Pahlaniuk and was pleasantly surprised at the coupling of witty innocent nature of this book, but also of the harsher violent overtones. It has the ability to mend and break your heart at the same time. I loved this book.

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Jan 04, 2012 Nicole Gervasio rated it 4 of 5 stars

The deliberately repetitive prose style makes the book a little verbose and isn't always intensely engaging, but Rigby John's character really is lovable. Overall, I seriously enjoyed this Midwestern gay coming-of-age story and could see how, class-wise, it could fit as a modern-day response to Rubyfruit Jungle.

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Jan 20, 2010 Gylan rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was a challenging one for me. Spanbauer's The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon is absolutely luminous - a truly exquisite union of story and prose. I found Now In The Hour to be a bit top-heavy: beautiful prose telling a largely unremarkable story. The ending draws things to a satisfying conclusion, but the things being concluded are not - up to the last 100 or so pages - very compelling. All in all a likeable novel, but not the transcendent ride you're used to with Tom Spanbauer.

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Jan 03, 2013 Ed rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

can't recommend this author enough. a disjointed bildungsroman with elements of magic in the mix, a story that begins and ends with leaving home, about identity and belonging, what we choose to take away and what is better left behind.

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Jan 27, 2013 Riley Edwards rated it 2 of 5 stars

You can see his influence on Chuck Palahniuk. You can also tell that he's not anywhere near as good (even compared to Palahniuk's somewhat patchy record). Somewhat creepy and rather disappointing.

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Mar 23, 2008 Matt rated it 5 of 5 stars

I read this book on and off over several months. This book is hard for me to talk about because in the middle of reading this book I had to go to Oregon for the funeral of a college friend whom I hadn't seen in years, but whom I still have friends in common, we had once dated and later became friends, but had drifted apart. I was struck that she had been reading this book too at the time of her death.

This book also is hard for me to talk about because it has to do with a difficult gay love stor...more

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Jul 07, 2012 Ayeen Karunungan rated it 3 of 5 stars

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"So many moments I've stood close to the fire. But I always stepped back. Dared not step beyond the safety of the fulcrum point. George says you have to wait, to trust for the moment spirit touches you. What I've just figured out is that if you're not there, ready for the spirit, ready to take the plunge, to jump, to fly, you're shit out of luck. You have to step up too, and not just up to, you have to take the step that's just beyond. Maybe the spirit will greet you, maybe not. In any case, you...more

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Nov 16, 2011 Kate rated it 4 of 5 stars

It's tough and confronting and it will break your heart. I had to stop and digest it several times, but those small breaks helped to take it all in. It really is beautiful.

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Tom Spanbauer is a Pulitzer Nominated author and the founder of Dangerous Writing. As a writer he has explored issues of race, of sexual identity, of how we make a family for ourselves in order to surmount the limitations of the families into which we are born.

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