Doing the Work of Love: Men & Commitment in Same-Sex Couples

Rating:
Summary: Do publishers not have editors any more?
Review: This is a very ambitious book and it delivers on a great deal of what the reader expects from the title. The author's belief is that commitment and monogamy are existentially healthier for people--including gay men--than are promiscuity and transient relationships. But if the text had been edited to eliminate the tiresomely tendentious jargon and an exasperating amount of repetition, we could have a 60-page article that was a pleasure to read and a mine of information and provocative insight. Instead of "author! author!" I want to cry, "editor! editor!"

Rating:
Summary: Do publishers not have editors any more?
Review: This is a very ambitious book and it delivers on a great deal of what the reader expects from the title. The author's belief is that commitment and monogamy are existentially healthier for people--including gay men--than are promiscuity and transient relationships. But if the text had been edited to eliminate the tiresomely tendentious jargon and an exasperating amount of repetition, we could have a 60-page article that was a pleasure to read and a mine of information and provocative insight. Instead of "author! author!" I want to cry, "editor! editor!"