Heat: Gay Men Tell Their Real-Life Sex Stories

Rating:
Summary: Invocative, but loses its spice.
Review: I have read several books by Jack Hart, and Heat is fasinating and invocative. When I first started reading this book, I couldn't put it down. Hart goes into great detail describing the charaters, but it backfired of him this time. About 2/3 into the book, I though I would die if I read about one more blond head, blue eyed person. It appears that Hart ran out of pictures in his head to write about. The premise is that these are true stories, but it becomes obvious that Hart was creating these stories himself. It took away from the erocticism. For these who love to endulge in autoeroctocism, this could be one of the better books on the market. I really enjoyed my time with the book once I overlooked the flaws.

Rating:
Summary: Not quite heat
Review: This is touted as gay men's "real life sex stories", but one suspects more than just a bit of fabrication. Indeed one suspects that Mr. Hart himself, a highly prolific gentleman in a burst of perfervid production, wrote the entire book. There's just too much...sameness here and predictability. I love a muscular young hunk as well as the next fellow, but one yearns for some variety here, something more offbeat, more REAL. At least more plausible situations and interesting "characters" would have helped and made the stories a whole hell of a lot more erotic. These vignettes unfold with the inevitability of a bad porno flick, and I'm afraid they have the same nourishment value.