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Well, Tales of the City lived up to its reputation. It is deliciously trashy and compulsively readable. Armistead Maupin wrote several characters that felt like people I could know.
It takes place in San Francisco in the late 70s, but feels timeless and current, except for the goings on of pre-AIDS crisis gay city life. It's full of affairs, and bath houses, and melodrama, and pot smoking. It's very funny and completely tongue in cheek.
I can't wait to get the second one. ...more
It takes place in San Francisco in the late 70s, but feels timeless and current, except for the goings on of pre-AIDS crisis gay city life. It's full of affairs, and bath houses, and melodrama, and pot smoking. It's very funny and completely tongue in cheek.
I can't wait to get the second one. ...more
I had been on a string of depressing but good reads and it was time for something a little lighter. I loved this and will read others. Totally fun soap opera of the type of people I would like to know or in some cases feel like I kind of already do know. Fun!
A loving portrait of 1970s San Francisco, with "oh no they DIDN'T!" moments that made me audibly gasp about every ten pages. I want to read all of them forever. Easy to read; you can tell it was originally serialized.
The way Maupin handles some things ((view spoiler)) feels a bit dated, but it fits with the times. The mocking treatment of the white characters' racism seemed d ...more
The way Maupin handles some things ((view spoiler)) feels a bit dated, but it fits with the times. The mocking treatment of the white characters' racism seemed d ...more
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