Suggested Titles for BGBGs Consideration
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by BGBGs for future book club suggestions. Please send any remarks, comments
and/or your vote for the following titles by email to biggaybookgroup@hotmail.com.
Only those individuals who are currently on the Big Gay Book Group's email
list will be considered in this selection process. This titles are currently
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Sex
by the Book
edited by Kevin Bentley
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Bars and chat rooms? Forget it. Colleges, libraries, and bookstores
are the real hotbeds of hooking up. Many men find their first affirmation
of gay sexuality on an obscure shelf at the campus library, so it’s
only natural that they return to bookish spots for further research —
hands-on, of course. The original memoirs and stories in Sex by the Book
treat books and sex as two equally vital, interlocking obsessions and show
how they can be powerful forces for fantasy, delusion, arousal, and seduction.
A university student makes a sexy punk his new major in a bookstore's bathroom
stall. A cultured older man brings home an abusive hustler who quotes Wittgenstein.
A beautiful young man meets the author of an S/M abduction story, eager
to be the butch Daddy’s next victim. These and other tales of satyriasis
and bibliophilism are just the ticket for every smoldering bookworm longing
to have his glasses — and pants — removed by the right guy. |
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Perfect Waiter
by Alain Claude Sulzer
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A sweeping, powerful novel about a man forced to come to terms
with the memory of his lost love.
Erneste is the perfect waiter—and his private life seems to embody
the qualities he brings to his profession. But inwardly this polite and
dignified man is in the grip of a violent passion, aroused thirty years
before, when he fell in love with a young waiter-in-training named Jakob.
Jakob broke his heart when he fled Nazi-dominated Europe for a new life
in America with his lover, Julius Klinger, a celebrated German intellectual.
Nursing his wounds, Erneste slinks even deeper into his well-ordered world,
hardening into what had only previously been a role. And then, after decades
of silence, he receives a letter from a distraught and penniless Jakob
asking for help. And Ernest must decide if he will finally take action.
Set against the backdrop of a genteel Swiss hotel, and moving skillfully
between two time periods, this exquisitely written story of a lifelong
passion is rich in tension and emotion, exploring the nature of love and
betrayal, memory, and regret.
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We
Disappear
by Scott Heim
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The body of a teenage boy is discovered in a Kansas field.
The murder haunts Donna—a recent widow battling cancer—calling
forth troubling details from long-suppressed memories of her past. Hoping
to discover more about "disappeared" people, she turns to her
son, Scott, who is fighting demons of his own. Addicted to methamphetamines
and sleeping pills, Scott is barely holding on—though the chance to
help his mother in her strange and desperate search holds out a slim promise
of some small salvation.
But what he finds is a boy named Otis handcuffed in a secret basement
room, and the questions that arise seem too disturbing even to contemplate.
With his mother's health rapidly deteriorating, he must surrender to his
own obsession, and unravel Otis's unsettling connections to other missing
teens . . . and, ultimately, to Scott himself.
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A first-of-its-kind anthology, Homosex features
all-time erotic favorites like Mr. Benson and Song of the Loon
rubbing up against World War II-era smut stories mimeographed in Tijuana,
1970s pulp porn, and state-of-the-art contemporary gay erotic tales. Homosex
includes classic stories by Richard Amory, Phil Andros, Lars Eighner, Jack
Fritscher, Robert Glück, Trebor Healey, Michael Lassell, Ian Philips,
John Preston, D. Travers Scott, Aaron Travis, Dirk Vanden, Bob Vickery,
and many more.
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To make recommendations for future selections of Big Gay
Book Group,
please send your suggestions and recommendations by email to
biggaybookgroup@hotmail.com
Any recommendations will be presented to and voted on by
members of the Group during our Group Gatherings.
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