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Summary: Don't go in the water
Review: To call this book over rated would be an understatement. The writing is barely even pedestrian, the constant flashback scenes are not just confusing they're incoherent! The worst thing is that the teen characters are so much like cartoon versions of how middle age gay men fantasize young surfer dudes it is downright embarrassing. The only reason I give this book one star instead of no star is that the couple short porn scenes are not THAT bad. But what you have to suffer through even to get that many pages into the book just is not worth it.
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Summary: A reader
Review: Unfortunatly there is too little time in my life to pursue my treasured hobby of reading a good book. With the book Metes and Bounds I found myself making time to sit down and get through at least a chapter as often as possible. As the book came to a close, I was reluctant to read the last chapter because I did not want the story to end. I did finish the final chapter after delaying for two days, and I have never said this before in my life, but I can't wait to read this book again. Maybe it is the stage of my life at this time, or the self-realization I hope to achieve soon, but the characters of Matt, Tiger, and Marc truly came alive to me. I felt their pain, envied their triumphs, and found a little bit of hope that in time we all will truly have the family that they have achieved. Well worth reading.
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Summary: Surfing To Selfhood
Review: Whether you are planning a summer retreat to the beach or just dreaming of one, Metes and Bounds by Jay Quinn would be an excellent cabana companion. The summer before his graduation, Matt, a cute country boy in North Carolina, reconnects with Tiger, his uncle just eight years older, at Matt's grandma's death. Tiger's mystique has haunted Matt for the ten years since Tiger left-since the time Matt spied him making out at the movies with a handsome Air Force officer. With adolescence, and a particularly strong attraction to his friend Jeep, a football player, there are things Matt wants to talk about, and he's pretty sure his uncle is the one he can confide in. Matt tells his story, and his voice has the authentic ring of coming from the heart with all the contradictions, emotions, and enthusiasms of an eighteen year-old. After Matt graduates, his father, wanting to help his gay son find his place in life, arranges for him to live with Tiger at Nag's Head, where his uncle teaches him surveying. Off work, Tiger introduces him to beach life and surfing, which becomes his passion. It's a laid-back life, and with his uncle and uncle's lover Mark as mentors, Matt-with considerable trial and error-takes the measure of his own metes and bounds and, discovering his own emotional parameters, becomes the man he has to be. Metes and Bounds has no intricate plot or mystery; it's episodic-and that is not a fault, because it isn't about the story, it's about the young man telling it, a coming of age biographical novel. Though not propelled by surprises, it is filled with self-revelations about Matt's relationships to family, friends, and lovers. He's a real young man with dangerous and powerful lusts he gives himself up to, described in some of the most erotic scenes in contemporary gay literature. But he's a sweet kid too. Quinn draws his character skillfully, showing Matt's vulnerable and innocent nature in scenes when others use him and in situations when his fundamental goodness proves the quality of his character. Matt is neither saint nor sinner, but a wholly believable young guy whose jealousy, spite, curiosity, love, and compassion-indeed, the full range of human emotions-are what real boys are made of. The storms that rage within him are in stark contrast to the idyllic sun, sand, and surf of the novel's coastal setting. Living with Tiger and Mark provides a stable and wholesome gay family environment where Matt is protected, understood, and valued. His ventures outside that matrix are not always any of those things, but they are the experiences through which a young man finds his way in the world. The contrast between the two worlds he moves in provides him just enough ballast to find his balance. With each mistake he becomes more sure-footed. Even romance, to his wondrous surprise, at last works out for Matt, and the promising happy ending is a perfect note on which to top your beach blanket holiday.
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Summary: A tale of TIREDNESS
Review: Will whoever is hyping this book give it a rest already? METES AND BOUNDS is not without its charms - as a disposable 'feel-good' so-called BEACH READ, as the more objective reviewers here have kindly termed it. But references to this book having won major literary awards are DISHONEST. Jay Quinn makes Robert Rodi look like TOLSTOY. It's high time that someone pointed out that this emperor has NO CLOTHES.
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Summary: I Love this book!!!
Review: Wow! This was the first male/male book I ever read and I loved it! Jay Quinn's style of writing is just so great. The characters are likeable and you can relate to them. I'd encourage anyone to buy this great book!
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Summary: Make's me want to run out and grab my surfboard!
Review: Wow!! Jay Quinn the Author, has written an incredable novel that is Evocative, stinging, adn stirring. This story describes the intense and personal memories of a teenage surfer's confusion and subsequent coming out. The author clearly describes every detail of a young adults life. This story is set in the early 1980s, in the early day's of AIDS. This book feels as if it were narrated by the voice in your head, rather than a character on a page. Matt is Eighteen years old and living in a tiny North Carolina community that would never accept his attraction to men. He has only one role model: his uncle Tiger. Despite their families' opposition, Tiger lives happily with his lover, Mark, and eventually Mark's young son. When Matt goes to work for Tiger's beachfront business, the feelings he thought were so unusual are suddenly accepted as matter-of-fact. Finally free to experiment both sexually and emotionally, Matt begins to uncover an identity in which he's equally passionate as a lover, a surfer, and even a role model. I highly recommend this book to all young gay men that are learning to come to grips with their sexuality.
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