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[Rod Hagen]

A catalogue of new GLBT-themed books was wrapped in the plastic with my latest issue of the Harvard Gay And Lesbian Review. Inside I noticed that shit-for-brains has a new book out. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560231912/qid=1025329628/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-4964318-2149631

 

Anybody read it yet? Thoughts?

[FrancoDiSantisxxx]

Nope

 

I am much to busy at the moment with Perfect Freedom and then I have a stack starting with The Lord Wont Mind....

[Will]

Having just returned from a long trip, I haven't opened my copy of the G&L Review. But who is this guy, Itiel? His publisher must think that the book is going to sell like hotcakes, or it would never have gotten expensive publicity like that. I'll probably read it, though. I read a lot of stuff that turns out to be garbage because I'm never sure how to know ahead of time that a book won't be any good.

[guyinsf]

I don't know any about the author. I'm curious what makes him "shit for brains"? The two reviews posted on Amazon are very positive, though they do not make me feel compelled to read the book.

[+ Axiom2001]

How do I go about subscribing to the periodical mentioned in Mr. Hagen's response? As a professor of literature, it might just come in handy!

[Rod Hagen]

A, I assume you'd simply do a google.com search on "Harvad Gay and Lesbian Review" and then go from there.

 

Itiel wrote " A Consumer's Guide to Male Hustlers ". He could teach Pickwick techniques in the art of Patronization. Also, he's just wrong almost all of the time.

[bluenix]

>He could teach Pickwick techniques in the art of Patronization.

 

What in the dickens are you implying, sir!

[Rod Hagen]

Pick, though I liked him, was often extremely patronizing toward escorts. Itiel is a patronizing bastard AND he has nothing interesting to say.

[bluenix]

Oops!

 

>Pick, though I liked him, was often extremely patronizing

>toward escorts. Itiel is a patronizing bastard AND he has

>nothing interesting to say.

 

I had forgotten about the Pickwick who used to post here, but now I get your point. I was thinking of the Pickwick character in the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. Who, while nice enough and, of course, a bumbler, was also patronizing in his polite, obsequious way.

 

I think the term these days would be 'emotionally immature.' Which might sound like a reference to Catholic priests, but, naturally, no such reference is intended here.

[Will]

Nope. It's no longer called THE HARVARD GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW. Its current title is THE GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW. Subscriptions cost $29.70/yr for 6 issues.

 

To subscribe, call 617-421-0082, or e-mail [email protected]; or write PO Box 180300, Boston, MA 02118. The website URL is http://www.GLReview.com.

 

It's not only the most literate G&L think-site out there, it's the ONLY literate G&L think-site out there, other that the JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY, which is published irregularly and is scholarly.

[Rod Hagen]

Will, I did a search on "Harvard Gay And Lesbian Review" using Google. com and I received a link to the correct page. So I wasn't wrong was I?