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Summary: Hands on!
Review: This is an excelent book, one of the best I have read yet! It's something that is so easy to relate to and you really begin to feel for Tim.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: This is one of if not the best books I have ever read. You are taken though Tim's life from a young age, you build a relationship with time and yourself and start to really feel close to Tim. You want to keep reading and reading, you want to know what's next, Both Tim and John sounded like the nicest guys in the world! I only wish I could have met them.Adam PS: Visit Amazon.co.uk as the Book can be bought from there!
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Summary: Fantastic book!!!!
Review: This is simply one of the best books on two of the most touchy subjects, homosexuality and HIV/AIDS. It is well written, honest, and VERY moving. I don't know a single person that has read it and not cried. Thank you Tim, and thank you John. May you both rest in peace together for all time.
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Summary: Buy it and read it. You don't want to miss it!
Review: This is the life that we face, Experiences unfold our mischievous; A story of courage and power, A story of holding the man. Who is Timothy Conigrave? What makes him to write about his life? Can the readers absorb the richness in him? Can anyone of you keep holding the man? How reluctant Tim is to find his man; John, The book tells us of how jealous we must be; He has no hassles to his friends and lover, Because he knows to hold the man. Coming out always has been an issue, Where can they start my dear friend? Have you asked? To their parents? Friends? Relatives? Celibates? Holding the man will give you a chance. Remembering John, ah...! It's hard for Tim, Young, lean and sexy; A dream for every girls to have this footballer, How they wish to hold this man. Blissfulness came to known when you are in love, Flattering with rose petals in your dreams; Hoping your lover kissing you softly and gently, As you hold your man close in your arms. Warm breath and wet lips, Staining the lips of your lover; Precums and sweats, released the odour of passion and lust, What can you crave more when holding the man. The precious days had gone, page by page; Like the falling leaves blown away by the autumn breeze; Surrendering their lives and souls bitterly, As AIDS will hold this two man. Knowing we gonna die when the time is up, Knowing that family will separate our bodies; Knowing Christ's love is universal, Knowing love can hold your man till eternity. It is a wonderful fictional writing and I was actually sobbing in the bus on my way home from uni.
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Summary: A powerful life story
Review: This is truly a remarkable book, and an asset to the gay community as well as those who suffer with HIV/AIDS. It paints a very human portait of gay men and AIDS. Maybe if books like this were incorporated into the highschool curriculum, homophobia and bigotry would be dispelled. I kindly had this book sent to me by a Aussie friend. For those of you who aren't from Australia it is worth the trouble of getting.
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Summary: A powerful life story
Review: This is truly a remarkable book, and an asset to the gay community as well as those who suffer with HIV/AIDS. It paints a very human portait of gay men and AIDS. Maybe if books like this were incorporated into the highschool curriculum, homophobia and bigotry would be dispelled. I kindly had this book sent to me by a Aussie friend. For those of you who aren't from Australia it is worth the trouble of getting.
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Summary: Euphoria. Desolation. Repeat until end.
Review: What a ride. I have staggered away from this book (although still clutching it to my stomach) having experienced more emotional trauma in one day than the previous three years. Tim Conigrave has written a story of freakish honesty at what can only have been the worst period of his life. Watching him at school achieve so easily what for me is still an amazing dream was in some way more moving than the overriding tragedy of the story. Although ultimately the sweetness and beauty of the relationship only makes the 'what might have been' desolation more intense. When you read Holding The Man (and you must), make sure you are feeling relatively stable, have someone lined up that you can talk it through with afterwards, and have some recovery time on hand. And please, take your time. 'Only magical people get talked about' is right. I suspect i'll be talking and thinking about these two for some time. Thanks Tim, for sharing this beautiful and devastating story.
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Summary: It is a part of myself now, can never be removed
Review: What can I say of this book? I could read it, read it, read it, etc. I've never read a book about any relationship that left me so attached, drained, empty feeling. In a way hoping I could ever be part of such an affair. This is really a powerful book. How can you ever forget it's story and beautiful characters. Such a shame that I can never meet them. Everybody can only hope for a partnership so blessed.
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Summary: Moving, touching & à fleur de peau
Review: What can I say other than this is the best gay book i ever read. Tim and John's relationship is an example of wonderful yet tragic beauty. I cried many times, smiled many other times... I had flash backs of my teen years when I was madly in love with a classmate in a french catholic school in Lebanon. The beauty of this book is in it's reality and honesty. Writen with such a direct style, the reader ends up sharing the life of the author and his lover in a very intimate way. Besides, "Holding the Man", could easily replace any book studying the gay couple. Reality is here, in all it's beauty and cruelty! A box of Kleenex can come handy while reading "Holding the Man". Those feeling down should avoid this book.
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Summary: The best!
Review: Without doubt, the best gay book I have ever read. It really portrays gay life in Australia perfectly, and is a moving, interesting and a brilliant story.
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