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Summary: Stunning, funny, moving series...
Review: Although this book, like the rest of the Tales of the City series, is relatively light and easy reading, it also manages to be deep and touching. One becomes attached to the characters and wants to read on to see what becomes of them, gets mad at them for some of their choices and may even decide they are no longer friends. The occasional brush with "real" characters helps to add a bit of fun to the stories. A must-read series, this look into the world of 70's and 80's San Francisco is heartwarming and addictive. Written in a way that lets you easily set the book down after each section/chapter (the books were originally created as short pieces that ran in newspapers) a strong caveat is in order: Be careful: you WILL end up reading well past your bedtime!
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Summary: Sweet and light
Review: Although I prefer the books that explore more "serious" themes, the center-stage reappearance of DeeDee and D'orothea made this book quite enjoyable for me.
An enjoyable satire of extremes of men's space and women's space, but not quite the same Tales I had fallen in love with.
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Summary: gone ot goodwill
Review: didn't list this for sale here because I would be ripping someone off. Tales fo the city was delightful, this is drivel
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Summary: Wimminwood...it's all about Wimminwood
Review: How can you not love the antics when blueblood DeDe Halcyon goes to a wimmin's festival and accidentally lets in the homophobes? Or how about when Booter falls asleep on his boat and drifts into Wimminwood and is kidnapped? The story and adventure continue on just as compelling as the first four editions. You will laugh, you will cry...you may find yourself all over again...
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Summary: I couldn't put it down until I was done.
Review: I finally finished it at 1:20 am last night. Armistead Maupin is an incredible storyteller. The way he weaves his characters into each other's lives is a pleasure to read. The last 170 pages of this book just flew by for me, before I knew it, it was WAY past my bedtime.
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Summary: The Absolute Best Series in Literature
Review: I first read the beginnig novel in College, for a requirement. And, I couldn't finish it. I though it was bizzare. But, after finishing college, and had been much more accustomed to the Bohemian atmosphere of college, I LOVED it. I read all the remaining novels. I even read "Maybe the Moon", and loved that. Maupin has been able to capture the inner psyche of spirited individuals and make them loveable. I loved every story line, and HATED to end any of them. My only regret is that I can't continue the ride.
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Summary: My favorite!
Review: My favorite of the "Tales" series, and I've read them all numerous times.
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Summary: A wonderful journey is nearly over
Review: Reading the 'Tales of the City'-Series was such a wonderful experience I could easily repeat it as much as I could. Maupin's style is so great and terrific, it's strange I hadn't heard of him that much, before I read it. The characters are surely some of the best ones ever created in literary history. The developement of the storyline is so surprising and unexpectable it's breath-taking. The twists and turns are so effective, because you seem to know the characters so well, and never had thought... well, you have to explore the secrets by yourself. I have never seen such a developement of characters. The same persons are totally different in the last book than in the first one. It's great. I won't rate every book differently, although they are very different. But they are so great alltogether and so well-connected it's hard to tell them apart. This is wonderful stuff!1
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Summary: More of the same from Maupin
Review: The first two novels in the Tales of the City series were very innovative and refreshing. After that, however, things became pretty dicey. Admittedly, it's difficult for an author to keep characters, themes, and plot lines fresh and zesty in volume after volume, but perhaps Maupin should have considered quitting while he was ahead. This book is different in that it has a Russian River setting, for the most part, but the plot really goes nowhere. He tries to make hay out of lampooning the Bohemian Club and militant ecofeminists, but most of his verbal arrows miss their targets. He also tries to develop a serious subtheme related to the AIDS crisis as it developed during the eighties. This is both essential and admirable, but now, years later, it comes across as preachy and maudlin. Finally, the inevitable "love interest" involving the gay protagonist Michael is totally predictable and frankly, really boring. Were the same dynamics applied in a novel to a heterosexual relationship, readers would be wringing their hands over the shallowness of the lovers and their interactions. Overall, the smarmy smugness of Maupin's basic message, i.e., "gays and lesbians are really hipper and cooler than are you boring breeders" has gotten REALLY tiresome by this volume in the Tales of the City series. Time to move on, Maupin.
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Summary: Maupin's masterpiece
Review: The most artistically assured of the _Tales of the City_ novels. Maupin has always been a solid literary craftsman; here, he emerges as a full-fledged artist, with a deep and powerful meditation on human relationships. As profound, engaging, and wryly observant as (E.M.) Forster's Italian comedies, this novel places Maupin among the finest contemporary writers.
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