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Posted: 2/1/05 at 4:23am

Is it too gay that I want to buy every novel that deals with homosexuality (and not the x-rated ones) at amazon.com?

Updated On: 2/1/05 at 04:23 AM

re: How cliche is too cliche?

Posted: 2/1/05 at 6:35am

sounds more like curiosity to me...

re: How cliche is too cliche?

Posted: 2/1/05 at 6:49am

Curious about what? My sexuality...or cliche's?

re: How cliche is too cliche?

Posted: 2/1/05 at 8:43am

about homosexuality in literature...

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 9:06am

Yeah, I am I curious. I've read some stuff, like Chris Rice's novels, and then the horrible Rainbow boys. Has anyone read Desert Son?

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 9:37am

If you want a hoot of a read, order GAYWYCK by Vincent Virga. It was the first gay gothic romance bodice ripper novel.

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 9:38am

Can it be gay and a bodice ripper? Surely it would be a breeches ripper, no?

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 9:39am

I'd like a gay bodice-ripper story...

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 9:39am

Okay...Thanks for that. I'll check it out. Can you give me more of a synopsis?

Rath, haha. That made me laugh.

Updated On: 2/1/05 at 09:39 AM

#10

I also loved "Gaywyck"

The sequel..."Vadriel Vail" not quite as good.

Originally published in 1980, Gaywyck, the first gay gothic romance, tread firmly in beloved territory, both honoring it and reinventing it. Classic in style, Vincent Virga creates a world as authentic as anything penned by DuMaurier, retaining the creaking ancestral mansion and mysterious and brooding master of the manor, while replacing the traditional damsel in distress with the young and handsome Robert Whyte, who was hired to catalog the vast library at Gaywyck. But before he can perform his real duty--of soothing the master's tortured heart--young Robert must first uncover the hidden evil lurking in the background and dodge murder and blackmail to root out the dark family secrets threatening to destroy him. Praised for its authentic use of language and setting as well as its honest portrayal of gay life and love in fin di secle America, Gaywyck is a classic of both gay and gothic fiction.

My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana." - Rose Nyland

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:28am

But before he can perform his real duty--of soothing the master's tortured heart--

It probably shouldn't have done, but that made me laugh. Hard.

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

#12

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:30am

That came from Amazon...not me!

My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana." - Rose Nyland

#13

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:45am

I agree with Jimmicf's assessment that the sequel, VADRIEL VALE, isn't as good as GAYWYCK. But truth be told, GAYWYCK aint no VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.

The problem, to me, with the narrative of GAYWYCK is that Virga tries to throw in every ding-dang reference to the period (I think it's the early 1900s) that he can come up with. You find yourself wading and trudging through endless references to literature, architecture, drama, food, ad infinitum ad nauseum. Sometimes I wanted to just scream "fer gawd's sake, get to the good stuff!"

I know -- underneath this cultured exterior, I'm really just fascinated with Penthouse Forum descriptions. LOL

Get a load of the cover art!
Our Young Hero is in supplication to the Master of the Manor

Updated On: 2/1/05 at 10:45 AM

#14

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:49am

Who told you there was a cultured exterior?

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:50am

You know, even though you reek of tea and crumpets and all things Brideshead, this colonist will still slap the sh*t out of you, Pippa. :)

#16

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:51am

You promise?

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

#17

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:52am

Why don't you buy the x rated ones? There's x rated and then there's books with "good parts".

Some of the fondest memories of my adolescence was reading forbidden novels and knowing where "the good parts" were.

None of them were gay, mind you. There weren't overtly gay people or even homosexuals in pop lit in the early 60s.

Peyton Place
The Carpetbaggers
Valley of the Dolls
Horseman, Pass By (McMurtry and the source of the movie Hud)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
among many others

Who needed hygiene classes when D.H. Lawrence was on the scene?

"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher

#18

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:55am

You forgot COFFEE, TEA, OR ME -- a cautionary tale about the misadventures of 2 randy stewardesses. LOL

#19

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 11:25am

Chances and Hollywood Wives were it for me

My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana." - Rose Nyland

#20

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 11:28am

Cue the ACL original cast album:

"Locked in the bathroom with 'Peyton Place'...."

#21

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 11:29am

Judy Blume's "Forever" was the book passed around our high school cafeteria.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#22

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 11:37am

Pass the snack mix, Beav.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#23

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 11:39am

*leaves*

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#24

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 11:44am

I would never consider "Gaywyck" or Jackie Collins as literature...I guess the thread title should be "pot-boilers"

My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana." - Rose Nyland

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Posted: 2/1/05 at 11:50am

Entries From a Hot Pink Notebook by Todd Brown is by far the best gay novel I've read (three times). I also enjoyed Fag Hag by Robert Rodi (Toni Collette would be a perfect choice for a film version) and of course, the Tales of the City series by Armisted Maupin.

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