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Summary: Deeply Moving
Review: A superb book, the last few pages were agony. I read every single word slowly and deliberately, hardly daring to turn the page and find I'd finished it. Without doubt a masterpiece.
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Summary: A mini masterpiece
Review: This book is just stunning. I finished it two days ago and am still walking around stunned. WINTER BIRDS tells of a young boy trying to find peace and sense as his family tries to survive the reign of his abusive tyrannical father. The unique narrative style-- almost like an adult talking to his childhood self-- is haunting and effective. Words of tenderness and simplicity are used to describe wrenching images-- like a hemophiliac boy crawling on broken glass trying to find his mother, broken, under the house. But now I'm giving away too much. Read this book
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Summary: Wonderful Book!!!
Review: This book was one of the most touching I have ever read. It will warm your heart and bring you to tears. I can't recommend it enough. -Dan Vincent
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Summary: An excellent story that trancends sexual orientation.
Review: This is a truly excellent book. It manages to be a very sweet love story without being sappy or contrived. I think it can appeal to anyone regardless of sexual orientation, even though it is a gay love story.
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Summary: mesmerizing.
Review: this book has definitly buried itself deep in my mind - and has no intention of leaving any time soon. Eric Rosen's stage production at About Face Theatre in Chicago introduced me to the story. i picked up the book the next day, and took my time reading it - allowing the story to envelope me - not wanting it to end. i relished the details - the wording and the characters. this book will haunt me the rest of my life - and i welcome its shadow.
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Summary: Notes From the South
Review: Having grown up a bisexual male teenager in the Deep South, I can attest to the validity of Grimsley's portrayal of the prejudices that run rampant here. Reading the novel brought back many tearful memories for me, but also gave me a glimmer of hope. A touching and honest portrayal of love in its purest form--an entity that knows no lines or boundaries of gender or age. Thank you, Mr. Grimsley.
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Summary: Amazing Literary Work!!
Review: DREAM BOY is one the most amazingly chilling and wonderful books that I have read!! This gripping story tears through the lives of two young gay teen-agers in the south. Mr. Grimsley takes the reader into the mind and soul of the characters with such eloquent verbage one cannot tear themself away for even one moment... A MUST READ!!! Mr. Grimsley's visions are erotic, terrifiying, and entrancing in way not seen in many authors! Gripping, romantic, terrifying, violent, gentle, and ASTOUNDING are but few words to describe this literary MASTERPIECE!!!! I give it 10 out of 5 stars with my whole heart!
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Summary: A book distinguished by fine lyrical writing
Review: Grimsley's descriptions of place and person are often lovely to read, and I enjoyed the immediacy and urgency of the boys' love. It has that "aching" quality so typical of young romance. What I didn't enjoy about the book was Grimsley's decision to use present tense narration. This seems to be an unfortunate trend among much of the "gay" fiction published today and, I'm sorry to say, it is almost insufferably pretentious and showy. Traditionally narrative sets out to describe events that have already happened, that are established, not events that are evolving. There is something unsettled and unsettling about present tense. Perhaps that is the author's intent. Experimentation is a fine thing, no doubt, but there should always be a point to it, and I don't see the point of telling a story set years ago with present tense. And I'm afraid, since Mr. Grimsley's other books are written similarly, I won't be reading them.
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Summary: Magnificent, Magical, Hypnotic, A true American Treasure!
Review: Without a doubt this is the best book I've read in years. I was mesmorized. Grimsley's style is lyrical and dream like and I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Quite simply, this is the novel I've always longed to write. It was a pleasure to read. While the ending was a little disturbing, it was appropriate and powerful. I can't say enough great things about this book. I'm going to read the rest of his work right away. Don't walk, run and get this book!
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Summary: Read it if you're not expecting much.
Review: Dream Boy is a fine read if you take it for what it's worth: a sometimes disturbing, but sweet book about a young gay rural man. However, if you demand well-developed characters, original plots, or thought provoking verbage, you may want to skip it or read it during a quick car ride.
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