Reading Practices

“It was a collection that I would buy whether I agreed with the book, or if I didn’t agree with the book. I bought everything on the topic that I could find that was being published.”

Read by Gaylor

  • The God in Flight

    S=gay college students Very good novel. Well written.
  • The Kremlin Letter

    An excellently written spy novel. At times the plot becomes difficult to follow especially toward the end. Number of homosexual incidents. Once character is a homosexual but plays a minor role. At times is quite sadistic.
  • The Evolution of Ethan Poe

    Well done. Teenage novel. 1st love.
  • Landscape in Concrete

    A different novel and difficult to understand in parts. About a homosexual who is discharged from the Army because of cowardice and his attempt to redeem himself. He is a huge man which makes the situation even more pathetic. The author has a great deal to say about life.
  • A History of Shadows

    A novel written about four older gays by a fifth gay who acts as narrator
  • Here Lies the Heart

    Reprint of 1960 autobiographical memoir with revealing portraits of Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. Very well written.
  • Death Scene: Thirteen Songs for Guy

    A typical English novel mystery. Some terms hard to understand for American audiences. Well written with detail characters. The author only wrote two books?
  • The Prince and the Pretender

    Very well written. An excellent novel by an interesting author.
  • Call Me by Your Name

    Excellent! Excellent written novel. A love story that moves ever so slowly but well worth the time. Probably one of the best gay romance novels written. Made into a movie Fall 2017 starring Timothee Chalamet
  • Cobalt

    Summer Cape Cod. The most chic gay party of the season in Provincetown. The perfect vacation. Until the tide washes in a dead body and the summer's antics begin to unravel the social fabric of this resort town. A gay comedy-mystery. The author real names are the Boston team Michael McDowell and Dennis Schuetz.
  • Flowers for the Judge

    Very minor character and, might be only slightly gay
  • The Occasional Man

    A new adult novel of the torments and temptations of abnormal desires. The story of the relationship of a 40 yr old man who has felt the bottom after his lover of 15 years leaves him. After drinking for 2 years he starts a new life with these individuals: Hermie--a Negro who offers companionship; Gus--a blond Greek who he loves; DeGrea, a South American who really loves him as is similar in aristocratic beauty. Excellently written. Very good plot and extremely fast reading. "Bitter novel on homosexual scene in New York"
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Motivated Reading

  • A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures; or Did Someone Murder Our Wandering Boy?

    Not particularly homosexual in plot but a fair mystery with good characterization. Some of the characters are homosexual. Excellently written and holds your interest to the end.
  • The German Money

    Not a gay book but rather a book of Jewish Studies written by a gay Michigan author.
  • The Boys in the mail room

    1 weak gay character
  • The Kremlin Letter

    An excellently written spy novel. At times the plot becomes difficult to follow especially toward the end. Number of homosexual incidents. Once character is a homosexual but plays a minor role. At times is quite sadistic.
  • Out for Business

    (doubtful that this book is gay)
  • Academic Graffiti

    With drawings by Filippe Sanjut. 614 lines, with 61 full page drawings. Not gay.
  • "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age

    Biography of the New York socialite and associate of the Astors and Stuyvesants. Although nothing sexually explicit in the book a few quotes maybe of interest: "... he delighted in women's clothes... buying men's clothes bored him. Oh, if only I could wear ladies clothes." And to his wife, "I am not like other men, I told you long ago that I cannot love any women. All women are repulsive to me..."
  • The Evidence of Things Not Seen

    About the Atlanta child murders and "from his viewpoint, the State of the Union in the mid-1980s" especially for Blacks. Not gay.
  • Flowers for the Judge

    Very minor character and, might be only slightly gay
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