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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/526518.In_Youth_Is_Pleasure_I_Left_My_Grandfather_s_House?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="In Youth Is Pleasure &amp; I Left My Grandfather's House" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175543481m/526518.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/526518.In_Youth_Is_Pleasure_I_Left_My_Grandfather_s_House?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">In Youth Is Pleasure & I Left My Grandfather's House</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/65647.Denton_Welch">Denton Welch</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21968562?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>I just finished In Youth is Pleasure, and am about to embark upon the next title in this book. Before finishing the book, I must confess my love for Orvil Pym, the main character. I love Orvil in such a way that I struggle to describe it even to myself, it has been so long since such character lust has overtaken me. I adored Zeno, yes, but this young Orvil speaks to the gay teenage boy in me (who apparently is not spoken to often enough. I must work on that). The book is about Orvil's (his dad calls him Microbe, which I am quite fond of as well) wanderings while on summer vacation. His adventures lead him to seeing half nude women, discovering an ancient grotto, and having strange and violent encounters with a school teacher camping with students by the river near his hotel. Orvil covers himself in lipstick, and twice we read as he acts crazier and sicker than need be to defend himself from the boorish tedium of his classmates... sigh, Orvil, you are an early Belle and Sebastian song. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/623295?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>