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Summary: a heart wrenching story for all to read
Review: when i first picked up mr harris's book..."abide with me"...i never imagine how much i would enjoyed reading his books...it was deep soul searching as well as "invisible life" and i really enjoy reading it because understanding where a person who is sexually confused and trying to sort out their feelings is very deep about how they feel about his or hers sexuality and its not so taboo to let your feelings go about who you are attractive too.. i never thought that i would be so anxious to read more of mr harris's writings...mr harris really put his talent and knowledge and soul into this novel...im reading the next one "just as i am"...hoping that i will be able to connect more with his characters *VBS*
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Summary: Mixed reviews
Review: Ok. I have very mixed feelings about this book. I thought the book started out great. Then I think it just went downhill. Although I do think his writing is simple (a little to simple at some points) the story was intriguing. But then I just thought he rushed everything. Everything that happened with Candace and her disease, his relationship with Nicole. Simply rushed! There were times I didn't even feel he and Nicole were even together. I do think that his relationship with quinn had more depth. Also I did like the character of Kyle but to make him a hustler? UGH!! I hated that part!!.....Anywho I both loved and hated this book...
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Summary: Great start to a trilogy
Review: I must admit this was the first book I read when I "discovered" myself. The first time I read it I cried because I saw myself right in Raymond's eyes. I think E. Lynn Harris captured every bisexual man's feelings in this book. After I read this book I promptly started buying his other offerings. You should also.
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Summary: Lives and loves of a bisexual black man
Review: In his first book Invisible Life, the author E. Lynn Harris introduced me to a world which before this was truly invisible and unknown to me. The chronicle of Raymond over a number of years described not only the life of a black man but one who was bisexual as well. Meeting Raymond Daly first as a young Southern college student deeply involved in a heterosexual relationship with his college sweetheart, to the days of his affair with a gay black man and then a black actress, to an acquiantance dying of AIDS, this book is especially memorable and poignant. It isn't any wonder then, that by the end of the book Ray is beset with uncertainties as to his sexuality. Pressure from his family not to even think of himself as a homosexual, hiding his bisexuality from the stodgy law firm he works for and then meeting a beautiful black actress who falls in love with him, by the books end, Ray must finally decide to consider the direction of his realtionships and his sexual life.I found this book to be an easy read. Perhaps a bit too easy. It only took me les than a day to finish the book and at times I found the writing was like a very long coversation, instead of a novel. Despite this The characters were finely drwan and I am looking forward to reading the next two books in this series to see the final decisions Ray makes regarding his life.
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Summary: A mind-opener for the passive reader
Review: A friend gave me Invisible Life to read on a road trip. I am the type of person where as if something doesn't grab my attention right away, it's a problem. After picking up the book at several different times, I almost decided not to continue it. While bored out of my mind, I picked it up and just read and read and read, until the book was finished. What took several weeks to start, only took what seemed like moments to finish. I can appreciate a new author. It's not easy putting all the thoughts that linger in your mind for so long into a masterpiece on the first try. Raymond Tyler's college years vividly reminded me of my own. I stopped for a moment to think of how many black male athletes at my school were possibly gay. This opened up a new frame of thought for me. I have known several women athletes who were bi-sexual, but never had I phantomed the notion of black male athletes being gay. For a moment, I wondered how Harris would describe two men making love tastefully, and without intimidating passive minds. At any rate, he gave the book a dramatic twist that kept me constantly reading trying to figure out what would happen next. I couldn't wait to get the the next novel.
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Summary: shallow and disappointing
Review: I thought this book was dull and disappointing. If you are looking for just a bit of light reading for the sake of a story, this may be the book for you - but if you are looking for a novel that is intriguing, moving and involving, this certainly didn't make the grade for me. The writing is dull, the characters are flat, the plot moves along like a simplistic fantasy with the characters making their choices with an unrealistically shallow level of conflict. I personally found I was unable to empathise with any of them because I felt they just weren't real to me, despite the book's issues being quite close to my heart. It's magazine-rack stuff.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: I though Eric Jerome Dickey was my favorite author of all times but, I think he has met his match. I went to the store to buy some new books and picked up this new book by E. Lynn Harris "Not a day goes by". I read it and it was one of the best books I have ever read, that was until someone from my job told me that he had four other books prior to this one. So far I have read Invisible Life and my favorite of all times ever "Just As I Am." If anyone has had someone that they love died of AIDS, this book will have you crying uncontrollably when a certain person dies in the book from AIDS. I am kind of feel bad to say this but, I did not look or treat homosexuals, lesbians and bisexual people in the way that they should be treated, in other words just like straight people. I also used the words queer, fag the list goes on and on. I know now how stupid I must have appeared to some people. After reading this book, I now know that some people that I hang around everyday could be bisexual and the things that I said probably have hurt them. So to everyone that I have disrespected, I AM TRULY SORRY, and that includes my uncle who has passed away. Even though I would never said anything bad about him but, disrespecting his sexuality through other people is just as bad. I am sorry that it took such a good book for me to learn how ignorant that I have been!
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Summary: A BRILLIANT DEBUT BY ANOTHER NEW BLACK AUTHOR
Review: I only heard about the book after reading about him in USA Today about 3 years ago which blew me away because the only books I read about gay men were the Peter & Charlie Triology by the late Gordon Merrick. It was wonderful to read a book about a Black Man coming to terms with who he is in terms of his sexuality and although he as well as his first male lover Kelvin, Kyle his best friend not to mention the "women" in their life, JJ their friend, Nicole, Raymond's brief love interest as well as Candace Kelvin's wife who would die of AIDS have to deal with homophobia, racism as well the reluctant acceptance of parents, it is a wonderful book to read that dramatically changes people's attitudes about being gay. Although I have read all of Mr. Harris books, this one will still hold a special part in my heart because it was his first. Keep up the wonderful writing Mr. Harris!
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Summary: The First of Many Blessings
Review: This is the first book of E. Lynn Haris' Invisble Life series. They are all wonderful. You will fall in love with most and hate some of the characters but that is what makes this series so good. I've purchased everyone of his books except for his memoir which I've read. All but "If This World Were Mine" and "And This Two shall Pass" are part of the series, but Mr. Basil with his fine behind is in every one. I've read this book and all the other twice that is just how good this is. Buy or read them all. You won't be disapointed.
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Summary: Now That's what I'm talking about
Review: I loved this book, because it shows the begining of his homosexuality and how it all started. Never did I read a book like that a day in my life and still have'nt I read a book even close to its caliber.That's why his worked is constantly talked about and now one hasn't even come close to his level of writing.The symbolism of the title is very creative and clever
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