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Summary: stone butch blues
Review: this book rips your heart out, puts it back in, let's you heal a bit then rips it back out. This book is powerful and intense I couldn't put it down, I've loaned it out and my friend has loaned it out yet again, I doubt I'll ever get it back, great book, don't pass it up
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Summary: An absolutely outstanding book
Review: This book was recommended to me and I was tremendously impressed by it. As I read Feinberg's tale, "the Other" -- at least that's what s/he's seem to be in our society -- became a part of me. I can't imagine a reader who would be unmoved by this fascinating story; it broke down some of my prejudices, and I consider this a major accomplishment on the part of any writer. (I don't think I'm extremely prejudiced, but this is an extremely powerful and transforming book.)
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Summary: You will never want this book to end!
Review: This is an amazingly touching story of life and survival as a butch, but that everyone can relate to in some context. I laughed and cried while reading this book. I didn't want it to end. I can hardly put into words the emotions that I felt while reading it. I know that I will read Stone Butch Blues again and again. I would recommend it to everyone!!!
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Summary: Masterpiece
Review: This is an incredibly vivid book. Jess' tale is told in such an intimate, powerful way that I feel she confessed her life to me personally. The book completes a full circle, from Jess' beginning of her journey, to the torture and hardships as a teenager, to the relief of finding people like her, to the isolation of passing as a man, to finally coming to terms with who she is and looking at a hopeful future. I have never felt more empathetic towards a character, I felt her pain, her fear, her joy, her desire, her loneliless and cried with her. I am a demanding reader and no author has recently narrated the story of a character as powerfully as Leslie Feinberg. This book is realistic, witty, extremelly well written and you never want it to end.
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Summary: Stone Butch Blues is the best book I've ever read
Review: This is one of the best and incredible books I've ever read. Being a newly outed baby butch it gave alot of comfort in knowing that there have been many like me throughout the years and in a sad sort of way makes me almost glad to be out in the 90s and 00s instead of during the period of Jess's and Leslie's struggles. This book can teach many things, it taught me that's it ok to be who you are and not have to hide and change yourself for other people, even tho I've suffered my share of harsh words and such and did change my apperance at one point because I got so sick of it(I grew my hair out and gained alot of wieght trying to hide the boyish body I had but now, even tho my hairs beautiful and alot of girls are gonna be mad at me, I plan to cut my hair and start lifting wieghts like I had been). I strongly reccomend this book for anyone who's ever wondered who they are and anyone who just wants to know more about everything. The stuff that happens in this book might be hard to swallow at points but at the end it left me with a kind of sense of hope that maybe we can make the world a little more accepting and finally even things out if we just figure out what exactly we want and work towards it. Go buy this book today! and if you don't have alot of time don't worry, it's so good you'll be done with it the day you get it
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Summary: It appeals to everyone and it's great bedtime reading!
Review: This isn't a "tortured tale" of anything. That's how people describe gay, bi, and transgendered people's stories when they get the message about how hard society tries to kill us, but still don't see the intense beauty of our culture and our lives. Feinberg's autobgraphical novel does a brilliant job of showing how gender and class and sexuality and race intersect, without telling us out loud. This gives hir characters depth that most bestsellers lack. Feinberg's writing brings you right into the scene, and hir simple, honest descriptions give the story a feeling of raw truth. It's interesting, to me, that so many lesbians (especially butch women) have embraced this book as a cult classic that really relates to their lives. At first, I thought, "they're missing the point; it's a transgendered story about how screwed-up gender is here." Then I realized that maybe it still relates to the lesbian community in terms of our gender issues; lots of female-to-male people start out identifying as lesbians. I read this book three times: twice by myself, and once to my girlfriend as a bedtime story. It's cozy and scary in turns, but it's full of love.
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Summary: It appeals to everyone and it's great bedtime reading!
Review: This isn't a "tortured tale" of anything. That's how people describe gay, bi, and transgendered people's stories when they get the message about how hard society tries to kill us, but still don't see the intense beauty of our culture and our lives. Feinberg's autobgraphical novel does a brilliant job of showing how gender and class and sexuality and race intersect, without telling us out loud. This gives hir characters depth that most bestsellers lack. Feinberg's writing brings you right into the scene, and hir simple, honest descriptions give the story a feeling of raw truth. It's interesting, to me, that so many lesbians (especially butch women) have embraced this book as a cult classic that really relates to their lives. At first, I thought, "they're missing the point; it's a transgendered story about how screwed-up gender is here." Then I realized that maybe it still relates to the lesbian community in terms of our gender issues; lots of female-to-male people start out identifying as lesbians. I read this book three times: twice by myself, and once to my girlfriend as a bedtime story. It's cozy and scary in turns, but it's full of love.
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Summary: Fine piece of work
Review: This novel made me cry. The characters were real and the storytelling heartfelt. This is far from fiction; this is a book that all gay and lesbian people should read, in order to know more about the history of the community, about the police raids, the rapes and the discrimination. The violence and torture are very vivid, I have to warn you. But, Jess, the main character, always finds a way to survive and move on. And amidst all the horror, her courage is something we can all find within ourselves, and move on with our daily struggles to be ourselves in a homophobic society.
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Summary: Stone Butch Blues is a beautiful book.
Review: Three days ago I began this book, today I finished it. I can not remember if I have ever read a book like this. I smiled and laughed out loud. My heart ached and I cried myself to sleep. As a femme, I wanted to reach out to Jess and protect her. It opened my heart and my mind. I think Jess is strong and beautiful. Praise to all the Butches out there who hurt and continue to struggle.
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Summary: Takes the Breath Right Out of You...
Review: Until I read Stone, I admit to being prejudice against the Butches among the lesbian ranks. I can not tell you how swiftly and completely this book removed that prejudice. Reading Jesse's story(Feinberg's), told with such depth and honesty, I could not help but empathize with her struggle for acceptance from the world around her, and from herself. This book is a wonderful telling of self realization and self acceptance. Anyone and everyone, gay or straight, should read this tale and see it for what it is, a moral, as well as ethical plea for tolerance of one's self and those around us.
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