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katikatA NAKED GHOST?
"Most outstanding of the gay novels read this month," said California Scene. "An amusing and entertaining story told in the first person by Paul, an ex-Gay trying desperately to go straight. In fact, he's a couple of weeks away from marrying the boss's daughter when the saga opens...until Paul's former lover, Lorin, suddenly appears. This might seem trouble enough--but Lorin has been dead for the past five years!"
Review: Disappointed, that basically covers how I feel about the book. The main hero, Paul, is a cheating prick who couldn't keep it in his pants if his life depended on it and who keeps spouting about how he was cured of homosexuality even though he gets a hard-on for every pretty male ass he sees. Despite having a fiancée, he can't keep his hands off his ghostly ex-boyfriend, Lorin, an arrogant, selfish, pompous ass who doesn't give a damn if Paul gets fired, arrested or even killed, for that matter - and Paul, despite knowing all that is still all hot and bothered for him, putting down and generally belittling Eliott, the one man who kept waiting for him, years and years on end, during his Lorin phase and even after that. Paul basically sleeps his way through the book - that is, he sleeps with everybody and their uncle but his actual fiancée...
Despite some truly hilarious scenes, the book made me feel highly uncomfortable and aggravated :/
"Most outstanding of the gay novels read this month," said California Scene. "An amusing and entertaining story told in the first person by Paul, an ex-Gay trying desperately to go straight. In fact, he's a couple of weeks away from marrying the boss's daughter when the saga opens...until Paul's former lover, Lorin, suddenly appears. This might seem trouble enough--but Lorin has been dead for the past five years!"
Review: Disappointed, that basically covers how I feel about the book. The main hero, Paul, is a cheating prick who couldn't keep it in his pants if his life depended on it and who keeps spouting about how he was cured of homosexuality even though he gets a hard-on for every pretty male ass he sees. Despite having a fiancée, he can't keep his hands off his ghostly ex-boyfriend, Lorin, an arrogant, selfish, pompous ass who doesn't give a damn if Paul gets fired, arrested or even killed, for that matter - and Paul, despite knowing all that is still all hot and bothered for him, putting down and generally belittling Eliott, the one man who kept waiting for him, years and years on end, during his Lorin phase and even after that. Paul basically sleeps his way through the book - that is, he sleeps with everybody and their uncle but his actual fiancée...
Despite some truly hilarious scenes, the book made me feel highly uncomfortable and aggravated :/
