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Title: Bob the Book

Author: David Pratt

Narrator: David Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-17

Publisher: Chelsea Station Editions

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

Publisher's Summary:

Just what is a "gay book"? A book attracted to books of the same gender! Meet "Bob the Book", a gay book for sale in a Greenwich Village bookstore, where he falls in love with another book, Moishe. But a freak accident separates the young lovers. As Bob wends his way through used book bins, paper bags, knapsacks, and lecture halls, hoping to be reunited with Moishe, he meets a variety of characters, both book and human, including Angela, a widowed copy of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and two other separated lovers, Neil and Jerry, near victims of a book burning. Among their owners and readers are Alfred and Duane, whose on-again, off-again relationship unites and separates our book friends. Will Bob find Moishe? Will Jerry and Neil be reunited? Will Alfred and Duane make it work? Listen to Bob the Book to find all the answers.

Members Reviews:

If you truly love books this is the book for you

All the other reviewers have said it but I can not help putting in my two cents. I absolutely loved it! I read the paperback edition and the experience was a surprising adventure full of action, suspense, love, assault, fear, depression, eagerness, acceptance, bullying, intolerance, romance, finding oneself, trash talking between different types of publications, sorrow, laughter, friendship, anger, gentleness, sympathy, and protectiveness. This work's author touched my heart. I have cherished books all my life and look sadly upon those that do not because they are missing the world. Do not worry Bob you will always have a home with me and my gang of beloved books.

is a wonderful, comic exploration of post-modern identity formation with anthropomorphized ...

Bob the Book, is a wonderful, comic exploration of post-modern identity formation with anthropomorphized books voicing their truth from behind often contrary covers, paralleling their owners frustrated attempts to access their own natural, pre-packaged identities.

At a used book sale, Bob, a book whose content can be categorized with either queer studies or gay pornography, written by Harrison R. Stone, Ph.D., meets and falls in love with Moshie, a less ambivalent scholarly book titledâ

Beneath the Tallis: The Hidden Lives of Gay and Bisexual Orthodox Jewish Men.

From this allegorical premise one immediately understandsâ Pratt loves word play. With childish delight, he spins a fable probing the depths of false identity that obscures the human search for true love. A multi-layered, playful sample of the text follows Moshieâs purchase by a female buyer:

âBob hoped that dark-haired woman was a scholar, as Moishe had wished for. Moishe had mentioned his wish to be marked up, highlighted and underlined, with Post-its stuck to his pages, and to live with someone forever. Bob hoped that Moisheâs dream was now coming trueâ (25).

With this multi-tiered word play, Pratt draws the reader into a probing examination of how we are all caught in the identity matrix of editing ourselves into pre-conceived hierarchical roles that overshadow our emotionsâ crippling our ability to connect with ourselves and others.

This is a very funny book, exploring profound issues that serve to trap us all behind layers of false identity.

A Unique Idea awaits in Bob The Book

This is an amazingly unique concept to teach the ups and downs of gay life in America. It was truly enjoyable from start to finish.