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Summary: Seeing Yourself through Someone Else's Eyes
Review: I have read three of Patricial Nell Warren's books. This one, the Front Runner and Harlan's Race. Billy's Boy touched me. As I read the pages, I saw myself burning the same candle and looking at the same images, always holding on to the past or what could have been. I have never experienced such a powerful feeling of introspection as the one brought on by this book. This wonderful book has the power to make you look at yourself through new eyes. I can honestly say that I am not the same person after having read this and the authors other books.
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Summary: Seeing Yourself through Someone Else's Eyes
Review: I have read three of Patricial Nell Warren's books. This one, the Front Runner and Harlan's Race. Billy's Boy touched me. As I read the pages, I saw myself burning the same candle and looking at the same images, always holding on to the past or what could have been. I have never experienced such a powerful feeling of introspection as the one brought on by this book. This wonderful book has the power to make you look at yourself through new eyes. I can honestly say that I am not the same person after having read this and the authors other books.
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Summary: a wonderful story is continued
Review: I simply loved to read the sequel to the l974 classic "The Front Runner" and 1994's "Harlans Race". The book was as challenging as its prequels. Patricial Nell Warren tells the story naturally and beautifully. The books really touched me.
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Summary: a wonderful story is continued
Review: I simply loved to read the sequel to the l974 classic "The Front Runner" and 1994's "Harlans Race". The book was as challenging as its prequels. Patricial Nell Warren tells the story naturally and beautifully. The books really touched me.
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Summary: Don't Bother
Review: I'm almost sorry that Warren finished her trilogy. It means that the saga is finished. It means I must close the cover on some of my favorite literary characters. It also means that she has accomplished something amazing. She has created a great series of books with lovable characters and nail biting situations that make me want more. Read this woman's books!!
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Summary: BILLY'S BOY strides to new distances since THE FRONT RUNNER
Review: In BILLY'S BOY, the third leg of THE FRONT RUNNER saga, Patricia Nell Warren is back in full stride ahead of the literary pack. A front runner in its own right, BILLY'S BOY shatters records and societal myths while keeping pace with some of our familiar family from THE FRONT RUNNER and introducing us to a whole new generation. BILLY'S BOY strides to new distances since THE FRONT RUNNER and HARLAN'S RACE, picking up the shattered pieces of some familiar lives and racing through some harrowing new territory with today's generation of youth. Some wonderful and unpredictable plot twists and a heart bigger and more vast than the cosmos that John William --our protagonist, BILLY'S BOY-- so desperately loves to search and explore in his dreams and with his telescope. BILLY'S BOY is a must-read for all, though especially for teens, particularly those traveling down the tempting tarnished yellow brick road of gaydom. Many will find themselves here in these pages but more importantly they will find that family is not a basic unit one is borne into but brought unto, and the ties of chosen family are far stronger and much more reliable than the bonds of blood that often blind and break us for being who we really are. Beautifully deep and deeply beautiful, BILLY'S BOY spans the yawning chasm know as the generation gap and brings us all to the realization we are never alone in our aloneness and not that different in our differences.
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Summary: One word....WOW
Review: Kudos for a book well written. Billy's Boy not only touched my heart, but kept me hooked with an intriguing story line. With more twists and turns than Chubby Checker in a blender, I fell in love with the characters immediately. I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the book and look forward to reading more.
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Summary: All for the love of Billy
Review: THE FRONT RUNNER was perhaps the best gay oriented novel I have ever read. Who didn't come to love, admire, respect and mourn Billy Sive? By the time we turned the last page, we had found and lost our best friend. In HARLAN'S RACE we looked for closure to that first story and slowly healed as the characters themselves did. Now with BILLY'S BOY, I find myself dipping my mind into a haunting memory pool hoping to rediscover Billy Sive all over again and coming up very disappointed. The author writes as well as ever, the characters are as interesting and touching as ever, it's just that the story doesn't fill the void that was left us in THE FRONT RUNNER. Like the ghostly character that haunts these three books, the race is an unfinished one.
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Summary: All for the love of Billy
Review: THE FRONT RUNNER was perhaps the best gay oriented novel I have ever read. Who didn't come to love, admire, respect and mourn Billy Sive? By the time we turned the last page, we had found and lost our best friend. In HARLAN'S RACE we looked for closure to that first story and slowly healed as the characters themselves did. Now with BILLY'S BOY, I find myself dipping my mind into a haunting memory pool hoping to rediscover Billy Sive all over again and coming up very disappointed. The author writes as well as ever, the characters are as interesting and touching as ever, it's just that the story doesn't fill the void that was left us in THE FRONT RUNNER. Like the ghostly character that haunts these three books, the race is an unfinished one.
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Summary: What A Difference a Few Years Makes!
Review: The original characters I loved from The Front Runner are back --- sort of. It is no longer the 70s, but the 90s, and it seems the child Harlan tried to conceive with his lost husband, Billy, is growing up and maturing and ---coming out of the closet. The novel switches from narration by Harlan to his son, William Heden. What was wonderful was to see the man we love, Harlan, through the eyes of the boy. We have spent over 20 years with just Harlan's point of view. I simply loved this book to all ends! It reminded me of the feelings I had as a young boy when i was struggling to come out and deal with my feelings. In my opinion, it surpases the second book, Harlan's Race, because it doesn't have a forced / contrived feeling to it. These are grounded characters who we have grown to love. Its natural, and beautiful, and I could never write more complimentary things about an author like Patricia Nell Warren!
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