GLBT Book Recommendations

[OpheliaDoll]

I like to read anything by Jeanette Winterson and Sarah Waters. I second the Tipping the Velvet recommendation. It's high quality literotica, very entertaining and decadent. The film version is great, also.

 

[Etoile]

Men's Rights Activists by S.V.


A bisexual man's take on gender issues.

Samuelx, I'd love to hear if there are books written by other authors that you would recommend? What GLBT books are on your bookshelf?

 

[Xectxny19X]

"Fingersmith" by Sarah Waters. Of all her novels, including her newest one "The Nightwatch," it is still my favorite!

I think what I really liked about it is that its two main characters aren't portrayed as extremely good or bad characters. The characters are very realistic in that they do, do selfish things despite loving whoever they may be hurting. It concentrates on the gray areas of people I guess. I'm not too good w/ using words to describe things. Sorry! I'm trying my best! The plot twists in the story makes it a definite page turner while developing both of the characters. You'll probably stay glued to the book wanting to know what happens next & b/c you'll start caring for all the characters.

 

[fille]

I didn't recognize his name at first, but I'm delighted to find out that he's the same author who wrote the Virgin Suicides. That was a ... wonderful doesn't seem appropriate ... but a very haunting book. I'll be putting Middlesex on my list for certain.

I have not read The Virgin Suicides , but Middlesex was so beautifully written that I am putting it on my list.

 

[RogueLurker]

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Thank you, Fille and SweetErika ...

I'm about a third of the way through Middlesex and enjoying it. I hope to finish it this weekend. Once I'm done, I hope to start Sarah Water's Night Watch.

 

[SweetErika]

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Thank you, Fille and SweetErika ...

I'm about a third of the way through Middlesex and enjoying it. I hope to finish it this weekend. Once I'm done, I hope to start Sarah Water's Night Watch.

I'm really glad you like Middlesex! The more I read, the more I appreciate the meticulous research (9 years, I think) and writing that went into it. I need to remember to check out his other books soon.

 

[Etoile]

I still haven't read Middlesex, it's sitting in the backpack I brought on vacation a couple of months ago...

 

[naughtyinsilk]

"Fingersmith" by Sarah Waters. Of all her novels, including her newest one "The Nightwatch," it is still my favorite!

I think what I really liked about it is that its two main characters aren't portrayed as extremely good or bad characters. The characters are very realistic in that they do, do selfish things despite loving whoever they may be hurting. It concentrates on the gray areas of people I guess. I'm not too good w/ using words to describe things. Sorry! I'm trying my best! The plot twists in the story makes it a definite page turner while developing both of the characters. You'll probably stay glued to the book wanting to know what happens next & b/c you'll start caring for all the characters.

I have to agree with you on the Sarah Waters reccomendation though I must say I prefer Tipping the Velvet, simply because growing up, and now living back about 8 miles from the whitstable oyster beds, and having worked as a teenager in a variety theatre/dancehall at broadstairs, its the way her writing not only captures the charactters but also the smells & the noises. Like her I left this part of Kent at her age, for me it was to be a roadie, off I went to London, knowing only a couple of people.....

AM I strange for wanting to be Kitty?

 

[Etoile]

I didn't like Kitty, she hurt Nan!

(Or was that just in the movie?)

 

[RogueLurker]

I didn't like Kitty, she hurt Nan!

(Or was that just in the movie?)

Nope ... it was in the book as well.



There were some differences between the movie and the book, but overall the BBC did a fantastic job with the adaptation.

 

[RogueLurker]

I still haven't read Middlesex, it's sitting in the backpack I brought on vacation a couple of months ago...

pull it out and start reading .... It took a few pages for me to get sucked into it, but I'm really enjoying the book.

Sweet Erika mentioned that he did nine years of research ... I can believe it. He has woven a fantastic story.

 

[RogueLurker]

Just popped in again to bump this and say thank you again to Fille and Sweet Erika ... Finished the book yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it.