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Mothers: This is what public schooling leads to

Advantages: Weighty, but deservedly so
Disadvantages: Weighty, but deservedly so

Beginning at the beginning with this book review is not really an option, considering the story starts on page one way past the chronological commencement of the story; a story that involves a burgeoning life of homosexuality, complete with dark passions, ...

theediscerning 26.09.2003 · Read full review
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Review of The Abomination - Paul Golding

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Brilliant

Advantages: Entertaining and very helpful if you are trying to come to terms with your own sexuality
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...Teaching Educating Rita for GCSE I came across the reference to Rubyfruit Jungle. Intrigued, I read and found it excellent. I could not put it down. The hero, Molly Brown, is witty, sad, lonely and frustrated; emotions that many, if not all, gay people ...

lully 03.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita May Brown

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An extremely readable book

Advantages: Promises a wonderful new world
Disadvantages: I haven't got a spaceship!

Daughters of a Coral Dawn is a Lesbian Sci-fi/Romance novel. Earthman smuggles alien to earth who can only give birth to girl children (multiple qtys every birth) - all are gifted in one way or another and each reproduce at such a rate that their existen ...

bren 05.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Daughters of a Coral Dawn - Katherine V. Forrest

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The Farewell Symphony

Advantages: Important as literature
Disadvantages: Novel format not convincing

The problem with "novels" that read like biographies, is having the author's real name loom large in the text, while those of other characters have been disguised to "protect their privacy." It's like having a garden hose pipe with a bend in the middle, ...

Willythewriter 07.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Farewell Symphony - Edmund White

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