Dream Boy

Posted: 2/22/05 at 3:46pm

Has anyone read this? I just bought it and it seems like a really good little novel about teenage love between two adolescent boys. Just thought I'd ask.

[magruder]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 3:48pm

Dream Boy will never leave you!
And all you gotta do is dream, baby, he'll be there...

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 4:08pm

Dream Boy is a beautiful (if a little depressing) book. Winter Birds was his first novel. Also depressing, but he wond a handful of literary awards for it. His latest is science fiction, I believe.

Posted: 2/22/05 at 5:27pm

I'm on teh second chapter (not that the chapters are long) and I'm already hooked.

[AndyHardy]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 5:30pm

I liked this book very much. Wonderful imagery and interesting style and, I agree with PJ, a bit depressing. Hope you enjoy it too.

Posted: 2/22/05 at 7:47pm

ugh...i just read this too in depth review and now I don't want to read it anymore

[midnghtdolphin]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 7:52pm

hey captain, not to threadjack or anything but i just had to say... nice pic!

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 8:13pm

I guess I'm the odd man out, but I didn't enjoy the book. I found it painfully cliched -- yet another "shy boy has clandestine affair with popular school jock" story and throw in the tragic family situation to boot. A friend of mine called it a typical "boi book." But I'm glad people are reading gay literature. I just picked up The Line of Beauty, and I can't wait to delve into it.

And yes, Captain Obvious is a hottie.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 2/23/05 at 3:34pm

add me to the Cap's fan club.

i happen to slightly know this book's author from "back in the day." A lot of the book is factual, even if its become a cliche. Don't ask me how i know, but trust me.

The author also has dabbled in playwriting; not sure what all has been published, but Seven Stages in Atlanta used to do some of his plays.

[Jimmcf]

Posted: 2/23/05 at 4:22pm

Add me to loving it.

I read his "Winter Birds" and "Comfort and Joy" and both have haunted me (especially "Winter Birds" - the main character there is grown up in the latter novel).

Last novel of his I read was "Boulevard" - which I liked, but was not affected by as much as the preious ones.

And midnight - what is your pic? Buffy? Point Pleasant? Hard to tell.

Updated On: 2/23/05 at 04:22 PM

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 2/23/05 at 4:48pm

Oh, jimm, honey, that is most definitely Buffy, Angel and Xander in that pic. :)
And who is this author? I'm not into digging around Amazon for his name, so drop it!

[centerstage]

Posted: 2/23/05 at 5:10pm

please do drop his name. I feel like he is a really good writer and his novels would interest me

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 2/23/05 at 5:12pm

Jim Grimsley

[centerstage]

Posted: 2/23/05 at 5:14pm

much thanks!