Review of Queer Chronicles: The Flaming of Atlanta (Paperback)

This book was a great, fun read!Fast paced and as funny or funnier than Bridgett Jones (sorry Helen).

At the start of "The Flame" I was feeling kind of like "Oh blah, blah, blah another book about an angry, pushy, flamed out gay man. Another diary format too. ACK! Why did I buy this?" But I very quickly got hooked on Blocker's quips and Kenneth's almost daily adventures. So much so that I found myself saying... "What the heck was he doing the last (insert number of days here) days???!!? Doesn't he know I need that information???!!??" whenever there was a break in days.

What I liked best was how I felt about Kenneth by the end of the book. While I started out not too flattering ("angry, pushy, flamed out gay man") by the last page I could see Kenneth's growth and transition from one dimension into three. It's really nice that Blocker doesn't rest on the typical stereotypes. At least not for long!!!


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A great coffee table book. But I prefer to keep it on my nightstand.-Dr. John Moore, Atlanta, one of the most beautiful people in the world"From seeing Jesus in a picture of spaghetti to suffering through dates where he'd be better off blind, Kenneth's notes on the REAL underground Atlanta will make you laugh till your nose runs. THIS is the Real Thing."-Karrie Beebe, Attorney-Wife-Mother, Florida, honorary fag hag "I picked up this book and couldn't put it down."-Ian Rafael Titus, Library Manager, NYC, gay writer of speculative fiction"Enjoying Kenneth's life through the pages of his book. Now that's what I call safe sex."-Rochelle Burdine, Writer-Actress-Artist, Atlanta, trashy French girl"Smart and Sexy. Queer Chronicles bears one gay man's soul and other less spiritual 'body parts' in a highly interesting, creative, imaginative, and very real manner-sometimes a little too real for some readers."-Jerry Payne, Atlanta, Consultant, the "X".

About the Author
Webmaster/author of semi-biopic QueerChronicles.com, honored as ?A Site Worth Seeing? by Atlanta radio station 99X in its first two months of web presence. Winner Turner South Short Story Competition, published Whosoever.org, ?vented? in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and his poetry appeared in the AFA National Finals.

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Review of D. N. A. The Service Across the Meadow (Paperback)

Terry has again written some awesome stories.I find them just as intriguing as The Parallel Triangle.His characters are well defined and the story line is captivating. He spends a good deal of time developing the plot and the climax at the end is unexpected (in a good way).I can't wait to read his next book.

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D. N. A.--Denton Nicholas Ashe is a published writer. His books are making noise. That's good. But not all the attention is welcomed. He's getting death threats. After a book signing, he's kidnapped at gunpoint and flown to D. C. Is his book so on target that it's ruffled some feathers? The actual reason, however is a shock. What else does Denton have that might compel someone to kidnap him? Read D. N. A. and find out.

The Service--How do you know if your husband or wife or partner is faithful to you? Hiring a private eye is one way, but what if the one you hire has his own agenda? What if, instead of finding out about your loved one, you unknowingly unleash a predator? Who is right? Who is guilty? Get the answers in The Service.

,P>Across the Meadow--Setting: a small, rural Kansas town in the 1950's. The town shrinks away from an unwelcome stranger. He has clandestinely befriended a local youth. Is the mysterious newcomer dangerous, is he a pervert? Across the Meadow illustrates the unwritten social rule that all is forgiven except homosexuality. It examines societal reaction to homosexuality, pitting it against its ignorant definitions of right and wrong, rewarding uniformity while punishing diversity.

About the Author
Born in a conservative Balkan country, Terry Pinaud is a naturalized US citizen. His struggles with his sexuality are the fodder for his books in which he pits social balance and fairness against labels and injustice in a variety of fictional settings. His dream is to help celebrate diversity through captivating characters and storylines.

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Review of Storm Tide (Paperback)

This has all the speed of EQUINOX with a sound modern day setting and another very sound relationship between two strong characters. Sean loses the plot at times, but Rob is very believable as the rookie trailing a farmore dynamic partner through apparently endless trials and tribulations.Once started, the plot never slows up, which occasionally makes you wonderif the characters wouldn't just collapse from sheer exhaustion in the realworld, but this is written in Keegan's usual, excellent and thoroughlyabsorbing style and keeps you involved with the characters and theirpartnership up to the very end. Keegan writes real relationships- notalways perfect, not always steady, but based on two different people and anenduring love. Rob and Sean are understandable, from the start where theyare trying to patch their faltering relationship to the end where Rob'sinsecurity comes far enough out for Sean to see it. How many writers canget inside people's heads like this? At times I wish the plot would stepaside and let a little more of this wonderful detail too, but then this isa thriller. One of Keegan's best - I wish he'd write a few more in modernsettings.

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Sean Brodie, an American engineer on contract in Adelaide, and his partner of eight months, local boy Rob Markham, are struggling to save their relationship by getting away for a week's fishing off the South Australian coast. As a storm approaches they assist a luxury cruiser apparently in trouble, only to find they've stumbled into a drug smuggling gang's offshore headquarters. A lucky escape is only the start of their troubles - their pursuers have unexpected friends on land as well as sea. In a thriller set for the first time in MK's native Australia, the award-winning author presents another action-packed, gripping adventure. Read the first four chapters online at www.melkeegan.com!

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Review of Personal Leave (Jarheads) (Paperback)

First of all, I can't believe I couldn't get this book directly from Amazon!Anyway, this book is another in the Jarhead series.Even though this is the latest book in the Jarhead series, it does not pick up where Out of the Closet ended.In this book, Rock and Rigger have been together for a while.Both of Rigger's parents are alive, (we get to meet the oft mention Daddy Roberts), and we are granted the opportunity to meet the narrow-minded folks who spawned our stud Rock.There's still a lot of sex, but we are allowed to witness the strong bond that these two share with each other.Be forewarned though, this book (less than 200 pages) is a very short read when compared with the other Jarhead novels. I would recommend this book to any Jarhead fan who wants to know what really holds these two men together.

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Alex "Rigger" Roberts and Jim "Rock" South are starting to build a solid life together, even as hard as that is for a Marine and a flight nurse. They have pizza, beer, a dog, and lots and lots of communication in bed. The only thing Rock doesn't really communicate well about is his family or his past. Rig thinks that's a little strange, as close as he is to his own tight-knit, loving family, and he sets out to pry a few details out of his studly Marine. When a death in Rock's family has them leaving North Carolina for New England, Rig gets more than he bargained for. There's bad blood there, and when things boil over, Rig has Rock's back, deciding that his Marine is better off without a family like that. Things aren't exactly smooth for Rig's family, either, and a family tragedy leaves him wondering if life will ever be the same. Rig tries to deal with is problems on his own, like he always has, but Rock proves to him soon enough that it's better to have someone there to pick up the pieces. Sean Michael gives us a true slice of Jarheads life in Personal Leave, a hot and moving tale of two men who laugh, love and live together. Take some time for yourself and read it today!

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Review of Chemistry (Paperback)

Back in high school chemistry, we defined the term as the science of mixingelements, creating a compound that is very different than either of the ingredients.It works the same way with people, as pointed out in Lewis DeSimone's excellent first novel, "Chemistry".

The narrator of the book is Neal, a gay man in his late 20's who is a new arrival in San Francisco.Having left behind a failed relationship in his native Boston, Neal finds a unfulfilling but well-paying job as an ad copywriter, and starts to explore the city with Martin, an older man who is the brother of a female friend back in Boston.On one of his first trips to a local bar, Neal is charmed by the impulsive and outgoing Zak, and the two begin a relationship, despite not having much in common (other than a mutual attraction to each other) and Zak's increasingly worse mood swings.It soon becomes apparent that Zak's condition is more physical (a "chemical imbalance") than behavioral, and Neal stands by him throughout a most difficult time in his life, despite Martin's suggestion that their relationship is more than a bit one-sided and codependent. Ultimately, Neal has to take a step back and look at what the relationship is doing to him, as opposed to what he really gets out of it.

A frank, intelligently-written and well paced novel, saying what needs to be said to people who rush into "loving" relationships without really understanding what the word should mean.As someone who has occasionally tended toward codependence in past friendships and at least one relationship, the book definitely spoke to me, and I recommend it highly to all.

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How much does biology have to do with who a person is?

Chemistry is the emotionally charged story of Neal and Zach, passionate gay lovers torn apart by mental illness. At first meeting they discover a sexual and emotional chemistry that cannot be denied. Then, as illness consumes one, each must grow, repair himself, and work to become stronger and more independent to ultimately conquer the life-crushing consequences wrought by mental illness and emotional dependency. This touching, introspective story will move you-and have you thinking about the motivations and events in your own life.

Neal Bauer is an intellectual and rather controlled gay man, in love with the idea of being in love. His past holds an unhealthy relationship which he struggles to come to grips with. Now he is faced with another relationship with a man in which he can lose himself, a descent of self into the inevitable trap of codependence.Zach Reddison is a free spirit, highly sexual, the product of an unhappy and abusive childhood. Zach has spent much of his life wandering in an attempt to escape his painful past. His swirling descent into clinical depression and serious mental illness is the stuff of nightmares for both him and for his lover.

I'd grown used to Zach, to the weight his body lent the other side of the bed. After all this time (back then, three months seemed like a very long time), I began to take for granted his inevitable place in my life. It never occurred to me that he could be temporary, like the others. I didn't think in terms of temporary or permanent; Zach was simply there, that was all there was to it. He was real to me in a way that no other man had ever been-in a physical sense, as inexorable and undeniable as a mountain range or a sea. Before, I had made fantasies of my lovers, loved them for the most abstract of reasons-the creamy notes of longing that wept from Adam's cello; the swirl of ideas that excited me whenever Brian opened his mouth-but Zach was different. Unique among them, Zach struck me primarily as a physical, tangible presence-flesh, bone, blood. He was tousled head of chestnut hair, unkempt on the pillow beside me in the morning when I woke early and waited for his eyes to! open.

Chemistry is the story of the chemical attraction between lovers, the brain chemistry that determines personality and mood, the medications needed for regaining mental health, and the relationships between people who care for one another. It is an enthralling novel of courage, liberation, and self-realization.

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