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Larry Kramer,

Reynolds Price (Foreword)

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Jun 19, 2013 Scott rated it really liked it

Shelves: homo-lit

I liked this book every second I was reading it, but got sad when I thought about it. Kramer does a wonderful job with biting humor gay people are supposed to have. funny and self-loathing all in one.

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Jun 07, 2007 Jay rated it it was amazing

Oh, Larry Kramer! What does one even say about this book?

This book has lots of raunchy, late-70s-Manhattan, indiscriminate fucking and a coked-up pase. It can be erotic. It can also be really frightening given how we know what the next chapter in the story is. Underneath it all is the usual existential crisis of people who are a little too self-aware.

I'm not sure I'd want to be friends with Larry Kramer (though I'd love to pick his brain) but this book is ballsy.

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Aug 27, 2008 Zweegas rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is one of my all-time favorite books. It's like this story took the classical hero's journey and applied it to a very specific time and place and people, in a context where no one expected a hero.

The climax with the double-fisting is so amazing for so many reasons.
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Apr 10, 2010 KC rated it it was ok

Terribly written ... but, tittilating ... I only gave it stars because of the historical importance of the writer ... maybe his new book about gay Lincoln will be better?!?

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