And Then I Became Gay: Young Men's Stories

Rating:
Summary: Very dry and way over explored
Review: Ritch C. Savin-Williams takes a collection of coming out stories and dissects them to the brink of insanity. If you are expecting to pick up a book that has full length coming out stories or even a good question and answer read this is NOT it. Many times the longest quoted entry is only a paragraph and that just gives Ritch more fodder to ramble on. He goes thru step by step and describes what percentages of his survey participants had the same feelings and how many of them didn't with no end result list. You are made to somewhat keep a running tally in your head of how many had sex with women and of those many how many didn't have a father and of those, how many cry when watching Old Yeller and out of those how many are now in a relationship blah blah blah. There is little or no way to extract significant useful information from this book. It is all anecdotal and dry.

Rating:
Summary: Very dry and way over explored
Review: Ritch C. Savin-Williams takes a collection of coming out stories and dissects them to the brink of insanity. If you are expecting to pick up a book that has full length coming out stories or even a good question and answer read this is NOT it. Many times the longest quoted entry is only a paragraph and that just gives Ritch more fodder to ramble on. He goes thru step by step and describes what percentages of his survey participants had the same feelings and how many of them didn't with no end result list. You are made to somewhat keep a running tally in your head of how many had sex with women and of those many how many didn't have a father and of those, how many cry when watching Old Yeller and out of those how many are now in a relationship blah blah blah. There is little or no way to extract significant useful information from this book. It is all anecdotal and dry.

Rating:
Summary: A good and informative book
Review: This is a good book that should teach you a lot about the development and experiences of gay and bisexual young men, from childhood to young adulthood. The author interviewed a number gay and bisexual young men and throughout the text he includes exerpts from his interviews, which add more 'proof' and 'reality' to the text itself. The only bad thing might be that his sample was pretty limited - mostly college students at Cornell University. It's more of a textbook than anything else, but it still makes a very interesting read.

Rating:
Summary: great
Review: This is probably the best book on gay issues I have ever read! I do not buy those kind of books very often, but this was definitely worth the money.