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Title: Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette ISBN: 0-15-600581-6 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.82 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A real eye-opener
Comment: I don't live under a rock but even still, being a gay male in the 90s, I can honestly say I don't know anyone with AIDS. Consequently, I have never had to endure the loss of losing someone I love to the disease without a cure. Yet I still found myself drawn to Paul's story about his struggle with the deterioration of his partner, Roger. After reading Becoming a Man, I progressed to this part of Paul's autobiography, expecting it to be much like the other part of the story. However, it wasn't. Not at all. The book introduced the tragedy of what occurs when good people experience horrid things. I couldn't believe Roger was actually dying throughout the book. He and Paul seemed so happy together; they had finally proven to the world that they, a gay couple, could survive in American society. Then the disease hit. What a loss, even with the AZT treatment, even with the constant barrage of doctor's appointments. I suppose this book made me aware that life, like I had heard so many times before, is not fair. If it were Roger would not have died and Paul would not have followed him seven years later.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bravo!
Comment: I had to take two days off from work when I started this book because I just couldnt make myself put it down.
Paul (I write in Frankness because by the end of the book all the charecters become like Family) writes with such simplicity and command that one feels like sitting by a campside listening to a wise man tell a heart wrenching tale.
Moreover, one thing i really admired about monette was that he doesnt try to gain sympathy by cashing in on his life. He doesnt use over dramatization as tools of deploying tears!
I really loved the ending because it brought such a fatal blow and with so little effort that the readers themselves had to grieve.
Furthermore, I learnt a wealth of information about HIV and AIDS from this book. Plus I just couldnt believe the red-tapism in the USA medical system. It really made me angry.
Read this book , Pronto!!
May Paul and his lover rest in peace!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Profoundly emotional
Comment: The story of Paul and Roger starts off as the ultimate love story of two people who found themselves in their partner. Their struggle with Roger's diagnosis and illness just cements that feeling of absolute oneness. I have never read a book as emotionally demanding. I have never cried when closing a book. Until now.
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Title: Becoming a Man : Half a Life Story by Paul Monette ISBN: 0062507249 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 11 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise by Paul Monette ISBN: 0156002027 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Afterlife by Paul Monette ISBN: 0758201885 Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic by Marie Howe, Michael Klein ISBN: 0892552085 Publisher: Persea Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Halfway Home by Paul Monette ISBN: 0758201893 Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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