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Summary: this book is NOT about AIDS, it's about humanity
Review: "God Doesnt Make Trash" is a masterpiece. It isn't just about AIDS, it's about humanity, about a heterosexual woman who finds herself in the middle of the AIDS holocaust and records the truth. I think I'd like to see this book in a film. It's like Philadelophia Story with a fresh approach.Bill Bowker-SF
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Summary: Still,A Pioneering Work!
Review: A few years ago, a friend of mine recommended this book to me as I am a health educator with a nursing background. I have recently re-read this book and find it just as engrossing as I had the first time I read it! I have recommended this book to other instructors and mostly health care workers who deal with the stigma of AIDS on a regular basis, but it is a good read for almost anyone. I find this book to be a warm, personable account --covering the many aspects of this illness: from social rejection to the general societal attitudes that are still out there!! Even to this day! I believe Ms. Brooker wrote this book--going back to those early days in the 1980's--yet these attitudes still exist today! I say this is a must-read for all of those affected by this illness and everything it involves.
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Summary: A pioneering work.
Review: I have never read a first chapter of a book that so moved me as this one did, about the author's friend who was the first person she knew who died of AIDS. After reading it I felt I knew this man, and I truly mourned his death, even though I never met him and he died over 15 years ago. That's how powerful a writer the author is. With every chapter, she uses the words of the person she is interviewing along with her own thoughts and feelings to tell their story. She writes with love and the artistry of a poet. This is a wonderful, moving, beautifully written book. I only wish this will be read beyond the gay/AIDS community. I only wish everyone in America would read this book, to see the suffering that ignorance and fear has created in far too many lives.
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Summary: An Absolute Must Read
Review: I have never read a first chapter of a book that so moved me as this one did, about the author's friend who was the first person she knew who died of AIDS. After reading it I felt I knew this man, and I truly mourned his death, even though I never met him and he died over 15 years ago. That's how powerful a writer the author is. With every chapter, she uses the words of the person she is interviewing along with her own thoughts and feelings to tell their story. She writes with love and the artistry of a poet. This is a wonderful, moving, beautifully written book. I only wish this will be read beyond the gay/AIDS community. I only wish everyone in America would read this book, to see the suffering that ignorance and fear has created in far too many lives.
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Summary: At first i thought "Oh no not another AIDS book"
Review: Let's face it nobody wants to read another book on AIDS. And quite frankly neither did I. But this isn't a book about AIDS. It's a book about a straight woman in San Francisco surrounded by loving beautiful people who have been shunned, discarded and ignored. It's a story about a woman who confronts her own fears, prejudices and ignorance. A woman who is haunted by a promise she made to a dying friend 20 years ago. A promise that she keeps inspite of editors, publishers and agents who simply don't care.
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Summary: A pioneering work.
Review: The skill with which Ms. Brooker weaves together the stories of the AIDS patients she is following with the growth of her own awarenesses and her own personal story is remarkable, and what makes this such a compelling read.
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Summary: Homophobia Unmasked for the Hate Crime it Really Is
Review: The untold story of those who lived and suffered with AIDS/HIV is finally revealed in this superb and powerful semi-documentary. Ms. Brooker has captured the deepest of human emotions in this account of human triumphs and tragedies. I couldn't put it down, and after reading it I'll never be the same. It is a must read for anyone with a soul.
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Summary: Homophobia Unmasked for the Hate Crime it Really Is
Review: The untold story of those who lived and suffered with AIDS/HIV is finally revealed in this superb and powerful semi-documentary. Ms. Brooker has captured the deepest of human emotions in this account of human triumphs and tragedies. I couldn't put it down, and after reading it I'll never be the same. It is a must read for anyone with a soul.
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Summary: this book is NOT about AIDS, it's about humanity
Review: this book is NOT about AIDS, it's about humanity. I was very
interested in the story of the heterosexual San Francisco reporter who found herself in the middle of the early eighties holocaust. This book reads like a novel and a social history. A book worth reading.
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