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Title: Wings in the Snow by Jim Oliver ISBN: 1-55583-462-0 Publisher: Alyson Pubns Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I WANT MORE!
Comment: Jim Oliver has done it again! After reading his first book, "Closing Distance," I picked this up, his second book, expecting it not to be as good a read as his first. Wrong! This was too fast a read. As his first book did, this one left me smiling, laughing and, at times, crying, and at the end, yearning for more pages. Much more. What makes a Jim Oliver read better than most others is that his characters go through a lot of turmoil and, oh! by the way: the main character just happens to be gay! As opposed to other books where the main ingredient of the characters are their gayness, Jim Oliver's books seem to focus on PLOT and have something to say, rather than just an erotic gay story. Yeah, I want more, Mr. Oliver: Please, give us another book. Soon.
Rating: 5
Summary: An intriguing book that leaves you smiling for more.
Comment: This is a wonderful book that I would love to share with many. The complexity of the lives of the characters leaves the reader feeling helpless, sadden, hopeful and astonished by the power of relationships. This is a wonderful book that I would love to share with many. The complexity of the lives of the characters leaves the reader feeling helpless, sadden, hopeful and astonished by the power of relationships.
Rating: 3
Summary: Mostly excellent; sometimes melodramatic and contrived
Comment: All the elements were here for an excellent novel: interesting interpersonal interaction between characters; an easily read writing style; plots and subplots that bounce off each other. But when I'd closed the book at the last page, I had the feeling I'd just watched a marathon run of a daytime soap opera. In fact, except for the homosexuality of the central character, Theo, and his spouse, Sam, the whole thing could have easily been a plot for The Guiding Light. And the characters themselves, with the exception of Susan Zack, Theo's daughter's mother, seemed rather stock to me: especially Theo, whose central conflict between a noble career and a home life, offered nothing new on the subject.
All in all, I think our fiction ought to do more (or at least different) things from our sit-coms and soap operas.
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Title: Latter Days : A Novel by C. Jay Cox, T. Fabris ISBN: 1555838685 Publisher: Alyson Pubns Pub. Date: 15 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Last Summer by Michael Thomas Ford ISBN: 0758204051 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Through It Came Bright Colors by Trebor Healey ISBN: 1560234520 Publisher: Harrington Park Pr Pub. Date: 05 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Elf Child by David M. Pierce ISBN: 1560234288 Publisher: Haworth (T) Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Daytime Drama by Dave Benbow ISBN: 0758203861 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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