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Summary: Funny, witty and true?
Review: A young man complete with art studies degree finds his older lover dead and himself without a way of supporting himself. Several months later his parents toss him out as well. When he aplies for food stamps, he discovers he can take a microbusiness class instead of doing a job search. What follows is an hysterical story of a gay prostitution business in Denver. The story is also about growth. This is a fun book to read with some interesting observations, espcially on the sexual tastes and meanings to men and women.
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Summary: Funny, witty and true?
Review: A young man complete with art studies degree finds his older lover dead and himself without a way of supporting himself. Several months later his parents toss him out as well. When he aplies for food stamps, he discovers he can take a microbusiness class instead of doing a job search. What follows is an hysterical story of a gay prostitution business in Denver. The story is also about growth. This is a fun book to read with some interesting observations, espcially on the sexual tastes and meanings to men and women.
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Summary: Delightful, Delovely, Delicious
Review: Ah, what a great business prostitution is! You've got it. You sell it. You've still got it. Chris Kenry has it, too. What an incredible first novel. The clever plot, the memorable characters, and the witty tone would seem to be the work of an established professional writer. Poor Jack, our narrator who has always depended on others take care of him, suddenly finds himself with no visable means of support and an enormous credit card debt. Not only does he find the solution to his financial problems in the world's oldest profession, but he finds love along the way. More importantly, Jack grows into an admirable character. This is a book that will have you laughing one minute and worrying about characters that you have come to love the next. When one hates to have a book end and wonders about the future of the characters, one has found a really good book. Chris Kearny has vaulted onto my list of favorite living writers.
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Summary: Can't Buy Me Love or a great book
Review: An easy read, but also not a very good one. The characters are stereotypes, the plot is contrived, and the ending is annoyingly sweet.
There are many other books of this genere (light Gay fiction) that are much better!
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Summary: Great Debut novel
Review: Chris Kenry has an easy-to-read style and is obviously a keen observer of gay life in the new millenium. While some of the characterizations he makes through the cast of his story are a bit cliche, they work, and you end up hoping that things turn out for the best for the group. Kenry has a quick wit, and this book is a fine summer read. Check out other books by Christian McLaughlin and Robert Rodi for some equally enjoyable summer fare, but don't pass this book up - it's a great first novel and a fine addition to the gay comedrama author aresenal. :)
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Summary: Chris Kenry's Can't Buy Me Love
Review: Fiction appealing primarily to a certain kind of reader must broaden its context in order to transcend its subject or theme in order to become good literature. A solid story, a well-written tale of human conflict or passion, a setting populated by a wide variety of characters -- these infuse Chris Kenry's new novel Can't Buy Me Love. The author accomplishes his task with talent and wit. Kenry's protagonist (alter-ego?) Jack Thompson finds himself transformed from callow youth into maturity as the story unfolds. We are so moved by this deeply introspective bildungsroman technique that the banality of Jack's profession and the infuriating shallowness of his character at the onset become secondary. At the same time, Can't Buy Me Love parades a host of city-dwellers from every corner of Denver's underground society -- a setting previously exposed by such writers as Gene Fowler, Damon Runyon, and Willard Motley. Never depressing, yet avoiding the whimsy of so many novels in its genre, Kenry's tale is a serio-comic masterpiece. The worst this reader can say is that it needs a bit of editing at times, and we are also left with a few loose ends in a very broad spectrum of parallel characters and sub-plots. In summary, think Petronius meets Balzac meets Mary Lasswell meets Noel Coward.
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Summary: HOW TO SUCCEED IN THE OLDEST BUSINESS AND STILL FIND LOVE!
Review: First off, stop reading this review and rush to add CAN'T BUY ME LOVE to your shopping cart. I don't say that for the benefit of amazon.com, but because I want to share the best fun read that I have had in a long time. It made me smile, chuckle and even laugh out loud. And all along the way I was rooting for the narrator in his struggle to best the fickle fingers of fate. The book, a fictional autobiography of Jack Thompson, takes you through ups and downs of a spoiled rich gay Denver boy who becomes a spoiled kept boy who becomes a penniless widowed boy who becomes a family castaway who becomes a welfare recipient who becomes a gay escort for pay who becomes a hustler who becomes a male madam (sorry escort entrepreneur) who becomes a video porn model who becomes a -- well, if I told you any more I'd be giving away the whole story and you should have the pleasure of reading that yourself. Now, I don't want to give the impression that this is a wet and messy tell all sexcapade; my mother would be able read book without batting an eye. (Sorry, if that's what you were looking for, but try this one anyway; you'll still enjoy it.) Chris Kenry is a real find in this his debut novel, and he has created some original and interesting characters. At times I was even reminded of some of Patrick Dennis' best work. However, since I read this book so fast, I'm really looking forward to his next novel or better yet novels.
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Summary: Good story, terrible dustcover
Review: Forget the TERRIBLE picture on the cover (can somebody please shoot that artist please?), this is just a wonderful story about life, love and all you need to know when you want to start an escort agency of your own ;-)))
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Summary: Delightful first novel
Review: Gay fiction desperately needs more books written in this lighter genre and style. Romance. Intrigue. Fascinating characters. Gay fiction tends to fall between two extremes: highly literary and extremely x-rated erotica. Robert Rodi, Doug Guinan, and Chris Kenry all work in this fun fiction tradition and I just can't get enough of these kind of novels. I read the erotic stuff and the literary stuff but these fun 'beach books' are the kind of escape that a hard working gay professional NEEDS from time to time. Chris Kenry's book is a great read! The characters are unique, the story is solid, the premise is intriguing (what gay man hasn't dreamed of being a hustler in fantasy alone?), and I could certainly empathize with Jack and his rug-pulled-out life. Congratulations to a welcome new author. Just keep it well written and fast paced and I'll buy and read them all.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Humorous gay fiction. I enjoy this genre. I've read quite a few books recently that fall into that category. Quite a few good books. Unfortunately, this was not one of them. I found I could not empathize with any of the characters; they seemed too stereotypical and self-serving. As far as plot goes, it was, at best, cute. It was adequately written, but I didn't find myself laughing or even cracking a smile while reading. There are no memorable lines; no amusing lines. It was a [very] mindless, light read. If you want to read a good book in this particular genre, there are plenty of other alternatives. For example: "It Had To Be You," "The Best Man," "Fool's Errand," or "California Screaming." This book probably doesn't even belong in this category.
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