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Title: Gore Vidal Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings by Gore Vidal, Donald Weise ISBN: 1-57344-082-5 Publisher: Cleis Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Bisexuality, Global Overpopulation, Childless by Choice...
Comment: ... Environmental Consciousness, Political Awareness and generally not succumbing to the mindless morass of pedestrian thought and values -- which are neither thought-through nor truly valuable. Gore Vidal's compiled essays on sexuality -- both in terms of the act as well as gender and sexual orientation -- is an invaluable comfort to anyone whose rejection of "The American Dream" has been met with resistance and criticism.
Read Vidal, and then remember that being who you are is more important than succumbing to who other people try to convince you to be.
Rating: 5
Summary: Disparate Works of an American Master Artfully Bound
Comment: It is axiomatic that Gore Vidal has long been one of the more underrated American literary masters of the 20th century. It is brilliant compilations like SEXUALLY SPEAKING that do battle with this oversight. Not often do books emerge that contain such wit, history and a chilling timeliness, that can be both enlightening and serve as a puckish summer read. The supplemental commentary is piercing, poignant and vulgar. This is the book that archeologists will dig up in two hundred years, to see how sexual identity in the 20th century was both confused and triumphant
Rating: 3
Summary: Gotta Balance these Stars.....NOTHING deserves 5 ...-kisses
Comment: Great for people who haven't read the essays before. Vidal rules the psycho-sociological TAKE on historical relevance in today's "situations".....or "acts," if you prefer. He knows where to provide the JUICE in each issue and has a backlog of great lit & history that helps swirl the goodies with great authority. Who knows what he's up to. ARe the days of cruisin for boys over, or does he resort to the South American tradition of "little boys'" parties. I seriously doubt it, but it would be funny. The book CRADLE OF EROTICA by Kinsey & Masters (Kinsey's ghost name is Allan Edwardes) is a great side book to have along the ride. Unfortunately he "peppers"(a word he humiliates in the essays) the good stuff with opinions on population control. Hell, the supply of young nubile boys enjoyed by the literary elite would certainly go down if his ideas were to be applied!!!
Anyways, Vidal could write more of this good stuff, but his grumblin' needs to get the TRUTH out prevents it. That's fine, but that just requires his reading public to savor every word, if ya ask a true fan.
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Title: The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal ISBN: 037572639X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal ISBN: 156025405X Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: 10 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: United States: Essays, 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal ISBN: 0767908066 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Decline and Fall of the American Empire by Gore Vidal ISBN: 1878825003 Publisher: Odonian Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Gore Vidal ISBN: 0300101716 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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