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Summary: This is TRASH, TRASH, TRASH.
Review: I wish there was a negative star button. This is exactly the kind of homosexual propaganda that not only creates horrible gay stereotypes that anger the media further but also one of those books you can't understand because you figure there must be some deep meaning you cannot understand--and guess what? There isn't. Dale Peck, I hope you're reading this. You are flat out corrupting the minds of young readers. Guess what? I'm 14 years old and found this IN MY SCHOOL LIBRARY. I fought to get it removed from my school library and it was(I, myself, through it in the trash bin.) You know a book will be trash when it's listed under the subject heading "Graphic novels." Ugh. Thoroughly disgusting.
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Summary: Brilliant ...
Review: I've been thinking for some time that I wanted to post a review of this book because I find it to be so intricate in both content and form. I have to say that, unlike a few of the other reviewers here, I went looking for this book because of the reviews that I had read of it in the gay press, and also because I was deeply moved by Peck's other novels. Peck's writing style is distinctive and graceful, while at the same time seamless and brutal, and his understanding of what it means to be marginalized -- whether that marginalization is based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or class -- and what such marginalization can begat, is obvious yet never patronizing. Like many worthwhile novels, the themes here are not easy and the characters are not altogether lovable. But this novel rocked my world.
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Summary: I find the title deceiving
Review: If I had read the reviews first, I would not have bought the book. I find the intimate sex details of the homosexual not reading material for me. I kept reading to see if the storyline changed but it only got worse. Sorry, but this is the first and last book by Dale Peck I will buy.
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Summary: Close but no cigar . . .
Review: If only this book was just a little worse -- then, then we'd have something. A pretentious camp classic. A cultural artifact worthy of comparison with David Foster Wallace or Bret Easton Ellis. Something not just awful, but God-awful. Alas, it's a just a failure. Over the top. Lame. Maybe next time, Dale.
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Summary: I find the title deceiving
Review: In the twinned towns of Galatia and Galatea, Kansas everything means something else.This is the key to Dale Peck's astonishing third novel Now It's Time to Say Goodbye. Seven characters speak to us in their own distinct voice while a dozen or so more are revealed by a seemingly omniscient narrator. It is often hard to understand the meanings and motives at play, but how often do we really understand what we do? This book is about meaning, the power to take control of things through words and the ascribing of motives. "People don't want the truth, they want explanations," Colin, a novelist, is told late in the book. Keep this in mind as you reach into the book and enjoy its stories, explore its unforgiving setting and learn to care about its richly made and mostly unloveable characters. Let yourself be astonished by what the human mind can do.
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Summary: astonishing
Review: In the twinned towns of Galatia and Galatea, Kansas everything means something else. This is the key to Dale Peck's astonishing third novel Now It's Time to Say Goodbye. Seven characters speak to us in their own distinct voice while a dozen or so more are revealed by a seemingly omniscient narrator. It is often hard to understand the meanings and motives at play, but how often do we really understand what we do? This book is about meaning, the power to take control of things through words and the ascribing of motives. "People don't want the truth, they want explanations," Colin, a novelist, is told late in the book. Keep this in mind as you reach into the book and enjoy its stories, explore its unforgiving setting and learn to care about its richly made and mostly unloveable characters. Let yourself be astonished by what the human mind can do.
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Summary: A great book
Review: It's been a year or so since I have read any books. A month ago I went to the bookstore and picked this up. I loved it and could not put it down. A little confusing at times, but stick with it. It's a good read.
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Summary: Artful schlock
Review: Peck pulls out all the stops to shock and disturb, but it comes off so contrived as to be almost laughable at times. Can you spell PRETENTIOUS? This here is fiction for people who fancy themselves intellectuals. Easy smarts.
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Summary: An Atmospheric Thriller with No Resolution
Review: Some parts of this book were fascinatingly complex and engaging. Other parts were just confusing and highly annoying, with way too much sex (all gay and graphic.) I kept wanting the story tied up and to understand why characters did what they did, thought what they thought. Ultimately it was just too long winded and pompous and went no where. It had enough for me to read it all the way through but I wanted to scream at the end in frustration. Read "What We Lost" by Dale Peck instead.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: What begins as an exciting "thriller" ends up being a very disappointing and pretentious hash of a book. Shopping mall pedestrian is the only way I can think of describing this belabored attempt. Redundant and silly.
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