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Title: Mysterious Skin : A Novel by Scott Heim ISBN: 0-06-092686-4 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 27 March, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (36 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: When I read it I knew I wasn't the only one.
Comment: When I went to High School in Kansas I soon learned that an author had gone to the same one as me. After a few years, I found Scott Heim's first book "Mysterious Skin". I read it and it was like a punch in the chest. The story takes place in my community and amongst the people I thought I knew. I also share the same sexuality as the main character. I found the book to be a sweet and painful release to the suffering I've gone through in this state of Kansas. The hurt and horror of this book was all to familiar. Heim's words and language, his graphic paintings of reality, and his twists of beauty and perversity pour out onto the pages of this unworldy novel. Don't expect to read it and pass it off. His books will live in your memory for a long time. To take his work to heart is to look at this world with wider eyes. Definately, this book is a must. Even though the book hurts so much to read and you will want to put it away, you can't. And in the end, through the horror, you will see the beauty of his work.
Rating: 4
Summary: Extremely moving, powerful, story
Comment: I must admit that passages of this book were very hard to read because I found the subject matter to be repellent. However, I think the root of my feelings stems from the fact that Scott describes an uncomfortable situation so beautifully, that you almost feel guilty enjoying the prose that describes such horrible acts.
Brian and Neil are two young men forever linked by their past experiences, but could not have interpreted the experience any more differently. Brian searches for answers in the hull of a spaceship, convinced he was abducted by aliens, while Neil moves from trick to trick, leading a risky lifestyle and coming to some difficult realizations along the way.
I thought this was a wonderful story of two people looking for answers and closure. It is beautifully written and takes us to a place that is uncomfortable to look at, but gives us two different perspectives to view it from. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic Novel, Great Characters
Comment: I found this to be an awesome novel that explored serious issues in an honest, forthright way. Rather than being sad and depressing, I found the book quite fulfilling and uplifting. It is beautifully written, and the characters are wrestling with serious but neither uncomon nor unsurmountable sexual experiences. Congratulations to Scott Heim, an exceptionaly talented writer who is willing to earnestly explore the impacts of childhood sexual experiences in an honest fashion rather than the typical politically correct, "shocked and horrified" perspective.
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Title: The World of Normal Boys by K. M. Soehnlein ISBN: 1575666618 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Boys of Swithins Hall by Chris Kent ISBN: 1879194252 Publisher: GLB Publishers Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Leave Myself Behind by Bart Yates ISBN: 0758203489 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: War Against the Animals: A Novel by Paul Russell ISBN: 0312209355 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 27 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Avoidance: A Novel by Michael Lowenthal ISBN: 1555973671 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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