Our Reading List (top most recent)

  • "The Bright Forever" by Lee Martin (Mac)
  • "Out Stealing Horses" by Per Petterson (Jase)
  • "Other Country" by Stephen Scourfield (Noelsy)
  • "A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian" by Marina Lewycka (Ross)
  • "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz (Martin)
  • "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov (Mac)
  • "Dreams of Speaking" by Gail Jones (Jase)
  • "Skin Lane" by Neil Bartlett (Alex)
  • "An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England" by Brock Clarke (Noelsy)
  • "The Stone Gods" by Jeanette Winterson (Martin)
  • "The Secret River" by Kate Grenville (Dobsie)
  • "What Happened to Gay Life?" by Robert Reynolds (Dobsie)
  • "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (Mac)
  • "The Sunday Philosophy Club" by Alexander McCall Smith (Alex)
  • "The Nubian Prince" by Juan Bonilla (Noelsy)
  • "The Third Brother" by Nick McDonell (Martin)
  • "Equus" by Peter Shaffer (Dobsie)
  • "We Need to Talk about Kevin" by Lionel Shriver (Mac)
  • "The Ressurectionist" by James Bradley (Carl - since left)
  • "The Unknown Terrorist" by Richard Flanagan (Jase)
  • "Omar and Enzo in the Big Talking Book" by Colin Batrouney (Martin)
  • "Eucalyptus" by Murray Bail (Mikey - since left)
  • "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" by Mark Haddon (Martin)

Thursday, June 19, 2008

The ideal future Bronte Sisters book?

I have actually read this book. It did the rounds some years ago as a dirty paper back found in a second hand bookshop in Glebe. It is not fiction, per se but down and dirty gay porn. The climax has the gay character gang raped by a couple of well hung black men. No stereotypes there...
 
Come on, please tell, who recommended this book? 

Dobbsie.

This book was recommended to me when I was updating my Bronte Sisters reading list on my Facebook account (well, if we can have a blog, I can see no reason why we shouldn't have a Wastebook presence too)... could this be the perfect future Bronte Sisters book? Or does some dodgy database somewhere think that all gay men are interested in is crime, sex and pathology? Are we interested in anything else?

About The Back Passage:

"A seaside village, an English country house, a family of wealthy eccentrics and their equally peculiar servants, a determined detective — all the ingredients are here for a cozy Agatha Christie-style whodunit. But wait — Edward “Mitch” Mitchell is no Hercule Poirot, and The Back Passage is no Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Mitch is a handsome, insatiable 22-year-old hunk who never lets a clue stand in the way of a steamy encounter, whether it’s with the local constabulary, the house secretary, or his school chum and fellow athlete Boy Morgan, who becomes his Watson when they’re not busy boffing each other."

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