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Title: The Man on the Third Floor

Author: Anne Bernays

Narrator: Paul Michael

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-15-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

Publisher's Summary:

Walter Samson is a successful book editor in post-World War II New York. He has more than enough money, an interesting wife, two smart children, and reason to believe hes leading the good American life - until a chance meeting with Barry Rogers. Barry is blue-collar, handsome, single, and poor.

Walter is instantly drawn to Barry, and despite the considerable risks, installs him in the Samsons three-story house on the Upper East Side, where the two men try to keep their amorous relationship secret.

Against a backdrop of McCarthy-era fear, with its doleful consequences and with societys pervasive homophobia, Walter manages to alter the direction and course of his life, losing much but gaining more.

Anne Bernays is the author of over a dozen books, including Growing up Rich. Her writing has appeared in the Nation and The New York Times, among others.

Critic Reviews:

Its what Edith Wharton or Louis Auchincloss might have written had they been free to write about a middle-aged and apparently happy man who finds himself falling in love with another man. (Michael Korda)

|I just love this book. Its my favorite of all her books by light-years. (Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prizewinning author)

"Bernays deftly articulates the difficulties faced by homosexuals during the McCarthy witch-hunt years[She] explores a dramatic era in American history and the psyches of her characters with equal ease in this well-written and entertaining new novel." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Excellent novel, but not for everyone...

Anne Bernays' new novel "The Man on the Third Floor", will probably garner a wide range of review ratings. Already there's a well-written three star review that I cannot find fault with. I'm going with a five star review but I won't be surprised to see a one or two star review. The reason I am going to give it five stars is because I'm comparing it with Bernays' previous novels as well as other comedies-of-manner novels.

I think I've read almost everything Anne Bernays has written, other than her most recent novel before "Man". She's not a prolific writer; several intimate novels like "Man on the Third Floor", a couple of books co-authored with her husband, biographer Justin Kaplan, and a book on writing. My favorite novel by Bernays is an early one, "Growing Up Rich", published in the mid-1970's. That book was set in New York City and Boston, post WW2, and curiously, there were a few references in "Man on the Third Floor" to places and people in the earlier book, though it was in no way a sequel. For instance, Griffin House was the publishing house where the main characters in both books worked.

Bernays is a careful writer. Her novels are shortish and to-the-point. Characters are well-drawn without many personal flourishes. The plots - such as they are - unroll with simplicity. There's very little action in her novels; they are mostly character studies. In "The Man on the Third Floor", set in the mid-1950's, the married main character has a homosexual affair, installs his boyfriend in his house, and lives there with his family and boyfriend. He and his chauffeur-lover manage this affair for many years, until they're "outed". At that point, Walter Samson has to decide how he wants to live his life.

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Title: I Must Confess

Author: Rupert Smith

Narrator: Matthew Wolf

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

Publisher's Summary:

A stinging satire of tell-all showbiz memoirs, starring a self-deluded gay icon who has managed to ride every pop culture trend of the last 40 years.

Marc LeJeune has had a remarkable career in the entertainment business. Despite the carping of critics, cruel twists of fate, and the treachery of former friends who were blind to his exceptional dramatic and musical talents, he has remained true to his unique artistic vision. From his early days as the face of Swinging London, to the late 1960s avant garde theater scene, through the sexually liberated cinema of the 1970s, to his current status as a much-loved household name and TV favorite, he tells all in this, his own astonishing story.

Through this fabulous parody of the showbiz confession, Rupert Smith has created a witty and scathing satire of popular culture and entertainment over the last 40 years. Marc LeJeune is a brilliant comic creation, inspired by Smith's many years of interviewing celebrities for Time Out and writing about showbiz in The Guardian (U.K.).

Members Reviews:

Forgettable

First complaint is poor formatting on the Kindle. A few words ran together, maybe 10 times in total, but the big problem is the 100 or so missing periods at the end of sentences. Also the quotation marks are all over the place, sometimes attached to the word before, sometimes appearing randomly. Guys, spell check is is not enough! "Tenor twelve" will pass spell check yet will not turn into "Ten or twelve" magically, it needs proofreading.

Secondly, the story itself. No likeable characters, no humour, no sex, no intrigue. It was okay, I'll forget it in a week.

If it was supposed to be satire, it wasn't over the top enough. If it was supposed to be humour, I didn't laugh. If it was supposed to be narrative, the guy did a ton of things I didn't like.

I really wanted to like this, I LOVEDMan's World, but didn't.

ALL ROADS LEAD TO MARC

We've had it wrong my dears, it's not Rome, the end destination is not Rome

All roads in fact lead to Marc

absolutely no doubt about it. Well according to Marc anyway.

Due to work and other commitments I had to slow read this. Usually I lose interest in a book when I'm forced to read like this but this time the book continued to gain momentum. This goes to show that there is no defeating good writing.

Smith's genius in this is that his brand of tongue firmly in cheek, irony, innuendo kept me reading with a smile and a frown and he even made me worry in the end.

Dance of veils, with a hint of a thigh here and a hint of an ass there. I know that the naked guy is underneath and I see glimpses of him but Marc veils everything. He shows you one thing with one hand and denies it with the other. A true Celebrity in fact. And this is after all a celebrity confession with all the self-aggrandisement, dissembling, delusion, denial. Just as long as the world revolves around Marc then everything is OK. It's like a reality tv Forrest Gump. I'm sure that the idea of a Church of Marc will one day come to him as well.

All this being said and done, beneath the superficial, setting aside the coy, I got a picture of how 'celebrity-hood' works. Celebrity culture grabs our need to be loved, equates that with being seen, acknowledged, applauded and puts its own similar needs and its need for bread and butter and regurgitates it back on us as a 'Celebrity Image'.

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Title: Bangkok Dragons, Cape Cod Tears

Author: Randall Peffer

Narrator: Jim O'Hare

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

Publisher's Summary:

When Michael Decastro gets an email from Tuki his long-gone client, the lady of ten thousand mysteries he doesn t hesitate a moment. He heads to Bangkok to find ... what? He doesn t know. To face what dangers? He hasn t imagined. All he knows is that she s beckoned, and he can t resist her call.And now, face-to-face with Tuki and a ruby so beautiful it has its own name, Michael must make a choice: move forward, protect Tuki, get to the bottom of her entanglement with the nak lin and see that she's safe, or run back to his father s fishing boat, hiding from the ills of the world beneath a watchcap and a raincoat.

Foolhardy, compassionate Michael hardly has to think ...This is the follow-up to the LAMBDA-award nominated Provincetown Follies, Bangkok Blues.

Members Reviews:

This was a surprise!

This was a nice find. I couldn't put it down once I started reading. This was a good thriller with an hard edge plot. Great read for a lazy afternoon.

Don't waste your time!

this is just another in a long line of trashy novels that uses South East Asia as an excuse to write stories that stero-types and denegrades the "demi-monde"

of Bangkok. Really ...hookers, transexucals, gangsters, drug dealers, jewel thiefs and double crossing police and CIA informants...Is that all that ever happens in this part of the world??? What an insult. I only gave it one star because I had to "rate it" before this could be published. This is a no star book.

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Title: Scott Free

Author: Marijane Meaker

Narrator: Tamara Marston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

Publisher's Summary:

Transgender insurance investigator Scotti House gets caught up in a kidnapping plot among the rich in the Hamptons. Fan favorite Vin Packer is back, writing again as Margane Meaker, with a fun and thrilling noir listen.

Members Reviews:

Easy listen, good story

Author did a great job of delivering a fully formed story, all the characters have real weight as it unfolds. The transexual subject is a very minor part of a good mystery. The ending is perfect and a surprise!

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Title: Morehead

Author: Jeffrey Hickey

Narrator: Joseph Rende, Lauren Pizzi, Jeffrey Hickey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-12

Publisher: Jeffrey Hickey & Big-n-Boo Productions

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

Publisher's Summary:

Morehead, the audiobook by Jeffrey Hickey, stars Joseph Rende as Dave Morehead and all the men in Chapter 2, Lauren Pizzi as almost all the women, and Jeffrey Hickey as everyone else.

Morehead is an explicitly adult novel about Dave Morehead, a young man living in San Francisco during the height of the sexual revolution, in the late 1970s to mid-1980s. It was a time of sexual, evolutionary, and political change, with both glorious and nearly catastrophic consequences. San Francisco was teeming with diversity, and an evolving political base that forever changed the landscape of what had always been a progressive city. Harvey Milk, Halloween in the Castro, college classes where heterosexuals are in the minority, the first Gay Games, and spiritual cults comprise just part of the terrain Dave must traverse in order to get from where he was, to what he will become.

Along the way, he is challenged, assaulted, and forced to defend himself, while relying on an expanding and surprising variety of friends. At the same time, a mysterious "gay cancer" is beginning to afflict some of his new friends and the community at large. Dave has to grow up, and he has to make choices. Will he be there for his friends, or will he let them go? Morehead is a coming of age story in the first person. It is told from the perspective of journals, classroom assignments, and transcribed audio recordings. Morehead, the second novel by Jeffrey Hickey, comically, bluntly, graphically, and poignantly tells the tale of a straight young man living in a gay old city.

Morehead was recorded and mostly mixed at Der Zoo by Jeffrey Hickey. The remainder of mixing and mastering was done by Robin Livingston.

Members Reviews:

Funny and Heartfelt

I just finished reading Morehead by Jeffrey Hickey and loved it. The book is laugh out loud funny at times and tender and sweet at others. David, the main character, grew up in Malibu in the '70's and moved to San Francisco to go to college. David experienced major culture shock. He matures and becomes open-minded and accepting as the world around him rapidly changes. David transitions over time from disdain for homosexuals, into a deeper and more sensitive young man by being in the epicenter of the early days of gay rights, sexual freedom, the start of the AIDS epidemic, the first Gay Olympics and the trial and resulting riot after the acquittal of the man who killed Harvey Milk. He not only grows more accepting of others who are different to himself, but he learns what is important in life and finds it. I lived in David's world for a few days and thoroughly enjoyed it!

Provocative and humorous

This was a delightful read that has something for everyone. It's funny, sad and insightful. Dave Morehead is a straight college kid in San Francisco in the late 70's surrounded by gay men and strong women. I love Dave's openness and naivete as he navigates his relationships with women and gay friends alike. It's a touching and informative look at San Francisco at a time when AIDS is running rampant, expressed with grace and warmth.

I very much enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.

Quite good, but the real gem is the audiobook

Morehead by Jeffrey Hickey is a rare find.

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Title: Color Him Gay

Subtitle: The Further Adventures of the Man from C. A. M. P.

Author: Victor J. Banis

Narrator: Sean Crisden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-20-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

Publisher's Summary:

Steve thought to cut in on the source of blackmail money that Dingo Stark was paying the boys who wanted to COLOR HIM GAY, but his hatred took him too far. As his screams drift through the still air, it's up to the debonair secret agent Jackie Holmes, that Man from C.A.M.P., to arrive in time to save the day!

Members Reviews:

Gay James Bond Playing All The Tropes

it's over the top, it challenges your suspension of disbelief at every turn and there's less of a twist and more of a "well yeah. Get genre savy Jackie" but most importantly this book was FUN. I giggled a lot, I enjoyed imagining the scenes and the narrator did an excellent job. A real easy listen and a short one too.

I will say you probably need to be at least a minor fan of the genre (martini-flavored spy fiction) to enjoy it, there are sex scenes but tastefully narrated in vague purple prose, and it IS fairly dated y'all, so be prepared for some casual statements and certain words that don't jive too well these days.

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Title: The Gay Dogs

Subtitle: The Further Adventures of That Man from C. A. M. P.

Author: Victor J. Banis

Narrator: Sean Crisden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-20-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

Publisher's Summary:

Jackie Holmes, the Man from C.A.M.P., is at it again, this time surrounding himself with the most outrageous crime-fighting team ever assembled: THE GAY DOGS.

Queens, hustlers, and strippers help out, with many coffee breaks scattered along the way to pursue their favorite sports. Will the purloined pooches bite the dust? It's C.A.M.P. versus B.U.T.C.H., as Jackie Holmes and his furry friends race to a bone-gnawing climax!

Members Reviews:

Fabulous!

What a great writer Banis is! Have enjoyed all of this Man from C.A.M.P. books. A funny romp of a spy novel with a gay twist of lime.

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Title: Another Love

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Erzsebet Galgoczi

Narrator: Brian Holsopple

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-06-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

Publisher's Summary:

A woman journalist who exposes the hypocrisy of the Soviet-dominated press is found murdered. With a plot that could have been ripped from today's headlines, Another Love offers "a finely balanced blend of entertainment and political commentary". (Publishers Weekly).

A great novel of the 1956 Hungarian uprising against the Soviets, Another Love is a classic of Eastern European literature.

Lieutenant Marosi of the Hungarian border patrol has found the body of Eva Szalnczky, an old school friend whom he has secretly been in love with for many years. Eva was a lesbian, an outspoken critic of the communist regime, and a journalist whose stories were too hot to publish in the dangerous 1950s. Determined to find out the truth about her death, Marosi requests leave and heads for Budapest.

As Marosi pieces together Eva's life, Another Love becomes not just a mystery about one woman, but a courageous, compassionate attempt to understand the political mystery of postwar Eastern Europe.

Members Reviews:

Beautifully written and narrated

This is a bleak, atmospheric story of unrequited love set in Hungary shortly after the 1956 uprising. Told from the viewpoint of a young army officer seeking to understand the events leading up to the death of his friend - lesbian journalist Eva Szalanczky - The book was the inspiration for the 1982 film 'Another Way', but the book has themes and nuances not included in the film and stands as a classic in its own right.

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Title: The Why Not

Author: Victor J. Banis

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

Publisher's Summary:

Everybody Who's Nobody Goes There. The place is gaudy yet drab, lively yet death-like, dispassionate mother hen to a brood of dithered chicks. Discover its bizarre existence from the inside, through the muddled collective mind of the outcast in-group, a gay throng of third-sex bewildered ones who frantically seek a why -but must always settle for The Why Not.

Members Reviews:

More for academics than the casual reader....

This may be a ground-breaking book of the time in which it was originally published, and it might be an important book, but frankly, I don't think it aged all that well. Or maybe I just don't really like the 1960s and going back to that time does nothing for me. I'm not sure. I found the characters to be bland, the plot meandering and unengaging. I felt myself wanting to yell at the characters to do something with their lives, not wait around for it to come to them.

I suppose this might be interesting to a historian or someone that is making a study of gay literature, but it's not the sort of book I'd sit down with on a Sunday afternoon for sheer enjoyment sake.

Surprise! A slice of real life beautifully crafted

OK - I admit up front I was looking for an easy, fun read and had seen Victor Banis's name floated a few places, did not read the blurb, just saw the "Meh" cover and bought it expecting to spend a few fun-filled hours with my brain turned off. That's not what I got and I'm really glad about it. This is not a lightweight story by any means but fear not about that. Themes that need to be addressed in the real world are interlaced in a really fine story. You will come to care - a lot - about these characters and what happens to them. You will have compassion (or not) for these characters who become people rather quickly. In short, I'd consider this an important work that is also just a flat out good read.

Fantastic portrait of gay life in the early 1960's

A great book.

Written as a series of connected vignettes, my only complaint is I didn't feel the characterizations were strong enough for me to follow who was who, or perhaps there were just too many short ideas. The main point though is the ideas all worked.

Some were happy, some were sad, a fantastic portrait of gay life in the early 1960's, possibly one of the best I've read. Such a wide range of people and ideas presented, it really made you feel like you were there. From drag queens and sex parties to a quiet couple's night in, clashes with the police and the vice squad, married men, single men, it was such a great well-rounded portrait of gay life.

Proof-reading would have been nice. A "fish crashing into his jaw" is less impressive than a "fist crashing into his jaw".

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Title: Man's World

Author: Rupert Smith

Narrator: Nigel Pilkington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-07-11

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

Publisher's Summary:

London today: a world of sex and drugs and designer clothes, where Robert searches for fulfillment in gay clubs. London 50 years ago: Michael enters a secret queer underworld, negotiating the dangers of the law and the closet. Past and present collide when Robert moves into a new block of flats, and discovers that history is alive in his doorstep.

Members Reviews:

Two Touching Stories, Beautifully Read

This story is challenging at times, the road not being easy for any of our heroes, but well worth the struggle.

Mr. Pilkington manages to bring each character fully to life, in all their flaws and glories. I was sad when it came to an end, and am off to search for more by Mr. Smith.