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Summary: JUST AS GOOD AS THE SHOW "QUEER AS FOLK"!!
Review: IF YOU LIKE THE SHOWTIME ORIGINAL SERIES "QUEER AS FOLK", THEN YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE THIS BOOK! IT IS SO MUCH LIKE THE SHOW, I HAD A HARD TIME PUTTING THE BOOK DOWN. THIS IS ALMOST LIKE THE VERY BEGINNING OF "QUEER AS FOLK" THAT YOU HAVEN'T SEEN. IT TAKES YOU WAY BACK WITH BRIAN & MICHAEL. THEY COULD HAVE MADE A FEW EPISODES USING THIS BOOK. IT IS WORTH READING.
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Summary: I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN
Review: If you watch the show you've got to read the book. I bought the book on Sunday and finished it on Tuesday. I just couldn't put it down. Every chance I had I picked it up. It shows you what life was like for Michael and Brian in 1989 when they were graduating high school. It is exactly how I pictured it would be...lol. Brian was as wild and crazy as he is on the show. And Michael was the same "Mama's Boy" that he is today. I would definitely recommend picking up this book. I can't wait until the next one comes out.
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Summary: Guilty Pleasures...
Review: Okay...yes, it's cheesy. Yes, it's like reading the 90210 books in the early 90's. But...it's sooooooo good. If you love Queer As Folk (the TV show), you'll love reading this book about the beginnings of Michael and Brian. The author did a great job of adding a history to the Queer As Folk main characters. It was totally believable (for their lives) and really engrossing. Again, if you love the show...and enjoy it for its guilty pleasures like you probably did with shows like Melrose Place. I was impressed by the author as well. He did a great job of capturing the personalities of the characters, and I could truly hear them speaking the dialogue in my head. This is great light reading for a hot summer day...
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Summary: Just like the TV show
Review: Reading this book is almost like reading a script to the Queer as Folk TV show. If you are an addict to the show, then you will probably love this book. However, if you are like me, and enjoy the show but by no means think it is fantastic, then the book is just "passable". This could be a quick summer read. If you are looking for something meaningful or in depth, skip this completely. It is pure superficiality at its best.
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Summary: Mixed Feelings
Review: Simply on account of the fact that I love QAF, I am willing to give this book four stars (and because three and one half isn't an option). The characters are a bit trite, but it's probably the most accurate portrayal I've seen in QAF fan fiction. It's true that Brockton made Michael this whiny ... kid, but hardly as whiny as everyone else makes him. Plus, the redundancy of mentioning how much Brian [likes making love] was unnecessary. The book needs editing and the store scene, too, should've been left on the floor of some publishing company. After all, Brian and Justin were supposed to have met for the first time on the night of the beginning of the show. Besides, what would a "Waspy-looking" woman like Jennifer Taylor be doing in what came across as a shabby liquor store? Other than that, the plot moved quickly, which was a very good thing, often unseen in books today.
P.S. The lack of variety for certain synonyms fitting certain organs irritated me.
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Summary: Good but leaves you wanting
Review: The book is much like the television show, it is only good during the sex scenes. Fortunately this book is full of erotic moments.
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Summary: Just to clear some misconceptions
Review: The book is not bad...it's a fun "fluff" read of glorified fan-fiction...but a great read for those days when you don't want to have to think too much and just want to read for fun. There are some discrepancies between the series and the book, which is to be expected, since the book is not sanctioned by QAF or Showtime.
And to address the previous reviewer's "facts aren't that off": Yes, they are. Lindsey and Brian met in COLLEGE, not high school...so irrelevant altogether. And Justin did not suggest out of the blue to name Gus, he was asked his opinion between two names...Gus and Abraham. As for the bracelet...considering the series was in existence before the books were, I'd tend to believe that he did get the bracelet in Mexico...as I said, this book is simply glorified fan-fiction. But a fun read none-the-less.
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Summary: Good to read once
Review: The book was a very very easy read. It's very simple and goes into some interesting events during their lives that are good to know in the back of your mind. I would recommend the book for everyone to read at least once. It's probably best if you borrowed it from someone and read it instead of buying it. It's not a book that I would reach for again and reread.
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Summary: Terribly disappointing
Review: This book failed to live up to even the very low expectations I had. I appreciate a simple writing style, but the effect here was simply... childish. Brockton remains faithful to the characters as they are on the show, but in the absence of talented actors to give them nuance he resorts to spelling out every emotion and character trait too broadly. I categorize it as rather poor fan fiction, and advise QAF fans to save their money and find the better stuff on the internet.
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Summary: BUT WITHOUT THE FLASH AND DASH OF TV
Review: This book, being touted as the novelized prequel to the popular Showtime television series, is supposed to tell the story of Michael Novotny and Brian Kinney as they approach their high-school graduation. I should have known what to expect when I opened the oversized paperback book to discover that is was printed in an equally oversized type face that reminded me of a ... Primer. Don't be mislead, this book is in no way a sexual coming of age tale of two eighteen-year olds. The sexual characterizations of the two main characters are identical to that of the thirty-something characters portrayed in the television series. ... I suppose that it is really asking too much of a "media tie-in" to actually provide the background reasons on why Brian is a satyr or why Michael wonders around following him moon-eyed and longing for him to become his comic book hero in reality. The only other characters from the television series to appear in the book are Michael's mother Debbie and his Uncle Vic, though a very young Justin does show up for a cameo put down of Brian. The book really fails to capture the flash and dash of the television series, and if you were a true fan of it I doubt if you will enjoy this fictionalization of it. I did however learn one thing from the book that I didn't know from the television series. And that was the real story about Michael's father. I give this book *** for effort though I did skim some of the sex scenes.
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