Rhinestone Country

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Summary: Note
Review: Before country super star Pete Riddle's untimely death, he made women swoon, but it was the male groupies he adored. Any male-- he begins to love his teenage sons just a little too much. And his wife gives new meaning to the phrase "Stand By Your Man." Guess which C&W star from the 40s Darwin Porter based his singing superstud on!

Rating:
Summary: Note
Review: Lots of authors have eulogized the Deep South, but very few have ever done so with as rich a sense of irony and homo-eroticism as Darwin Porter. And until now, none of them have ever looked at male sexual bonding against a backdrop of the (till now) notoriously heterosexual country-western music industry.

Ironies like this, and more,[come] together in the lushly evocative pages of RHINESTONE COUNTRY, where a social history of the states south of the Mason-Dixon line, beginning just before World War II and stretching into the 90s, is presented with love, respect, and penetrating insight.

RHINESTONE COUNTRY pays homage to the women who stood by their men, regardless of their same-sex philandering, through bouts in prison, on the war fronts of Europe prior to the D-Day invasion, and into the country-western spotlight as represented by Pete Riddle's success at the Grand Old Opry in Nashville. His moniker as "the sexiest man alive" doesn't hurt during his rise to stardom--but will the sexual and inter-racial aspects of his promiscuity be tolerated by his fans?

Read this book for an intense and unusual point of view about sex and society of the Deep Deep South, and the deceits that keep spinning out of its closets. RHINESTONE COUNTRY is a brilliant primer for Yankees who are learning about closeted Gay Lives of the South for the first time. Even better, it's an erotic slap-session for Southerners who might already be familiar with its venues.

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Summary: The 21st Century's Greatest Homoerotic Novel
Review: Over the years I've bought books by the hundreds. But to tell the truth, very few have captured my imagination as much as Darwin Porter's Rhinestone Country. It's true: I bought it for the sexy cover, and there's plenty of sex here--more than the average reader can handle. But what I found was that I got caught up in the storyline. Peter Riddle and his sons, along with long-suffering Rosacoke Carson, lived an incredible story that began in the months before World War II and stretched all the way from Nashville to Hollywood in the decades that followed. Pete and Rosacoke exploded into show business like Elvis. But the tale fed to their adoring public concealed closeted, tragic, but always exciting lives, none more so than what happened to their son Buster. Even though it's not set in New York or Hollywood, Rhinestone Country is the most exciting show business novel I've ever read, and I've devoured dozens. It is also the most compelling bedtime tale I can recommend to any hot-blooded male. If you like sex, but sex with a compelling story, rush out to buy this one. It's hot, hot and hotter!

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Summary: where do they get this stuff?
Review: yuck, blech, couldn't get it in the trashcan fast enough.