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Summary: Great Book
Review: I laughed out loud, I cried, I bristled with righteous indignation, I chortled with smug satisfaction. Yup, Dan hit just about all my buttons.But I'm going to start calling him "breeder boy."
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Summary: very funny and moving book; highly recommend to all!
Review: Could not put this book down; I finished it in 2 days. It was a wonderful book. Funny, and also sad at times. I think that it was great that Dan and Terry were able to adopt a child, I'm really happy for them. I think that ban on gays and lesbians adopting children is despicable, and that all states should have open adoptions like Oregon. A person's homosexuality does NOT render a person unable to be a good parent. Best of luck to Dan and Terry!!! Way to go!!!! :)
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Summary: Honest,book helpful to anyone considering open adoption
Review: The Kid describes all of the high and low points of an open adoption. It's by Dan Savage, so it is very direct, very frank, will offend many, and very funny. He discovers that he and the straight adoptive couples issues have some common touchpoints he hadn't expected. While most of the couples he meets are in the throes of struggling through a grieving process over being unable to make babies on their own, and worse, having to prove themselves up to stuff for agencies, Dan and Terry don't have that problem. But then he realizes, yes they did, but they'd already dealt with it years before in a way, during the coming out process, and later. They're long past the point of realization that they're not going to have a family like their siblings or friends, and that they will have to struggle to have one. For the straight parents the start of the adoption process is a sad time, whereas for Dan and Terry it is a victory of sorts, a feeling of having got over some big hurdles, and not just the ones erected by society, but personal ones too. Good book for anyone considering open adoption. Actually, a good book that anyone will enjoy.
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Summary: Great book
Review: Dan Savage is not the warm-fuzzy type of gay man that I typically think of as wanting to start a family. He's a grungy, urban, sex advice columnist who tells it like it is. He's extremely likable and this book is fabulous. I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: Honest, funny and a little harsh
Review: I've never read Dan Savage's column (although friends do read it to me from time to time), but I though this book was great just the same. It is sometimes really harsh (leaving you hoping he's joking, but not quite sure). It is also laugh-out-loud funny at times (mostly when Dan is reminiscing). As an Irish Catholic I thought it was dead on. As a straight woman, I though it was eye-opening. Although Dan Savage says gay rights advocates were worried that he was not a good choice to be a poster child for gay adoptions, this book makes you realize that he and his boyfriend are perfect for it. I really enjoyed this book and had a hard time putting it down.
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Summary: Excellent read, Dan keeps your attention all the way
Review: Didn't know what to expect, however this book is great reading. Funny, dramatic and witty. A book that paints a good picture of growing up and being gay. It also does a great job of taking everyone through the adoption process
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Summary: A Great Account of the Open Adoption Process
Review: I loved this book. It made me want to go out and open-adopt one of my own. As a single father wanna-be, I enjoyed hearing the details of the process he and his boyfriend went through. It's engaging, funny, and insightful and hit home by revealing to me why I, too, want to have children. My only complaints? He's a bit too down on homosexuals, and his sex comments don't really add much. Otherwise, it's a very enjoyable read. If you're thinking about an open adoption, read this book. If you're a gay couple thinking about adoption, this is your chance to hear about it first-hand. So good, I hope there's a sequel.
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Summary: Sexual-orientation is irrelevant to Parenthood
Review: I've long enjoyed Dan's _Savage Love_ and _Dear Dan_ columns, so _The Kid_ was a real treat. Savage's glib style makes for a fast, enjoyable read, and (as a father myself) it was easy to get wrapped up in Dan and Terry's odyssey. While I laughed out loud in spots, this book isn't as outragiously funny or scathing as some of his syndicated columns--what it is is a touching, sensitive, and amazingly honest story of a couple going to extraordinary lengths to achieve parenthood. I just hope that this book doesn't get typecast as "a book for gays"--this is a rewarding book for _any_ parent (or would-be parent), regardless of their sexual orientation.
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Summary: true to the bone and savagely funny
Review: what an amazing sharp and witty look at the adoption process, I've enjoyed Savage's sex columns, but always thought his tongue was a little bit too deeply embedded in his cheeks; in this magnificent, and very important book, he comes fully alive, as a character, and as a writer. His kind of irreverent, though deeply felt and experienced, sensibility is what "gay" literature needs. And in the end, though he may not have meant it, is what this book ends up being, great lit in the vein of Swift and Wilde, subversive and hilarious. That horrid Catholic upbringing paid off!!
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Summary: I stayed up all night, laughing and crying.
Review: A wonderful, warm, funny and touching story of how Dan and his boyfriend Terry came to adopt little D.J. As a gay man whose best friends adopted their own little boy last year, the book spoke to me directly and truthfully about the hopes, doubts, fears, joy and surprises associated with adoption. Although still biting (and bitingly funny), Savage lets his guard down and shows himself as much more human than he does in his advice columns. Jesse Green was more lyrical in "The Velveteen Father," (another must-read), but Savage tells his story simply and directly. If you're thinking of adopting, gay or straight, you've got to read this book.
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