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Summary: The "Truth" Has Never Been So Funny
Review: Author Michael Thomas Ford is so dead-on with his stories about gay life that I always find myself laughing out loud. If you are A-list pretty boy, you may not get his humor. For the rest of us, the truth is not out there but right (write) here before our eyes. I took this book with me recently to Florida and as I was sitting in a gay club with everybody swirling around me, everyone (that is) in his ( and her) own little world, I just threw my head back and laughed thinking of Ford's pearls of funny wisdom. There was a time when sitting in club alone would would have left me depressed. After reading a couple of Ford's books, not anymore! Thank You, Mr. Ford, for at last getting me to "wake up" and not take gay life so seriously. While some critics call you "cranky" and "unhappy" I see you are "funny" and "truthful." HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: The "Truth" Has Never Been So Funny
Review: Author Michael Thomas Ford is so dead-on with his stories about gay life that I always find myself laughing out loud. If you are A-list pretty boy, you may not get his humor. For the rest of us, the truth is not out there but right (write) here before our eyes. I took this book with me recently to Florida and as I was sitting in a gay club with everybody swirling around me, everyone (that is) in his ( and her) own little world, I just threw my head back and laughed thinking of Ford's pearls of funny wisdom. There was a time when sitting in club alone would would have left me depressed. After reading a couple of Ford's books, not anymore! Thank You, Mr. Ford, for at last getting me to "wake up" and not take gay life so seriously. While some critics call you "cranky" and "unhappy" I see you are "funny" and "truthful." HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Three words... Fab You Lous
Review: Ford's done it again! He's returned to the magic formula of "Alec Baldwin" and created a down-right hysterical piece of writing. He's the master of self-awareness, self-pity, but more importantly self-appreciating humor. You can't help but fall in love with him, no matter what gender. Which is really what it's all about, right? After reading and owning three of his latest books, I've decided he's the kind of guy you want living next door to you and I'd even help him pack! Kudos and congratulations... again.
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Summary: It's not "Male" if it true!
Review: I counted Michael as one of my enemy when I first read his book,"Alec Baldwin doesn't love me". Because Alec Baldwin doesn't love me too! and we both fallen in love with the same man! But the more I read..the more I feel as if we were friend..many of our childhoodtime was so similar(except my Mom never ran away with the priest! ) I found his newest book by coincidence on this weekend when I went to bookstore with my lover and it's my fault to start to read his book before bedtime. I didn't sleep till Sunday morning! His book is funny and marvellous,brillant and most of all this is a truth of gay people .You can read it even you are not gay. You must read this book because nowaday there are many gay people around you and you have to learn how to live with them! Michael..I think you are so great! You are my Miss Gay universe!
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Summary: A gay Erma Bombeck?
Review: I have first to confess that this is the first one of Mr. Ford book that I read; and it is certainly good enough to get another one. Curiously after reading randomly a few assays, I was reminded of Erma Bombeck, and her "non-glamour" tales of day to day life in suburbia. Well, Mr. Ford does the same for gay life here, showing that gay people would perhaps go more often to bars or be more glamorous if they did not have to spend time holding a job and dealing with everyday life. A gay everyday life but an everyday life nevertheless. Perhaps it is a sign that gay writing has "arrived" when you get in your hands a book of gay middle class tales that your Mom can read. And perhaps even smile in spite of herself. Who knows, she might even lend it to her neighbour....
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Summary: You should hear him READ
Review: I loved this book, as well as Ford's two previous collections, and I was thrilled to see that he's now released an audio collection, called MY QUEER LIFE. His essays are a joy to read, but hearing him read them himself will make you experience them like never before. Buy this book, as well as the first two, then treat yourself to the audio version. You'll laugh so much it hurts.
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Summary: Humor to make one's jaw ache
Review: I've been a fan of Ford's for a while now, and I still think he's one of the funniest writers around. Whether he's skewering Dr Laura, gay culture, or himself, he serves up smart criticisms overflowing with gobs of witty remarks and barbs. I heartily recommend this book to everyone! Except those that don't find him funny. Y'all can just find something else to amuse yourselves.
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Summary: The Must-Read Gay Book of the Season
Review: In 1998 Michael Thomas Ford's Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me burst onto the bestseller lists, where it stayed for over eighteen months and won a Lambda Literary Award for best humor book. His follow-up, 1999's That's Mr. Faggot to You, also rode the bestseller lists for more than a year, and earned a second consecutive Lammy.Now Mike is back with a brand new collection of thought-provoking, engaging, and, above all, hysterical essays about the trials and tribulations of being a gay man in today's America. Whether he's writing about the search for fame, the obsession with penis size, or a paralyzing fear of spiders, Ford will have you howling with recognition and reaching for the phone to read your favorite parts to your friends. Compared by critics to everyone from David Sedaris and Fran Lebowitz to Dave Barry and Erma Bombeck, Michael Thomas Ford has a style all his own. He's been called "the voice of gay America," "a spot-on satirist," and "the smartest humor writer out there." Pick up his newest book, and find out why he's quickly become the most popular observer of queer culture writing today.
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Summary: Observations for the Rest of Us
Review: Like Michael Thomas Ford's earlier collections, this latest installment is both hilarious and right-on. So much gay writing is focused on the big-city social scene that it's refreshing to read something about "normal" life - dogs, dates, and depots - Home Depots, that is.
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Summary: Michael Thomas Ford is hysterical...
Review: Many people don't like his sharp, cynical humor. However, living in NYC, I can totally appreciate it. His short stories are things a gay-sitcom could be made out of, but only he's even funnier. An easy, quick read of short stories (perfect for mass-transit), and A GREAT GIFT idea for your "queer" friends.
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