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Whistle Stopper - When You Don't See Me
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List Price: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Kensington
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780758216861
ISBN: 0758216866
Label: Kensington
Manufacturer: Kensington
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2007-10-01
Publisher: Kensington
Studio: Kensington
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Summary: "When You Don't See Me" Review
Comment: This was my first Timothy Beck novel so perhaps it was the new style of his writing or unfamiliarity that comes with a different novel as this one is but it was just 'good' for me. I found it hard to get into because of the prose and the feel that it takes a good portion of the book for the plot, character and theme to warm up and get moving. I kept having to flip the book over to read the description to remind myself what the book was about.
At first read, the book feels like a faux-autobiography of Nick Dunhill, just your run-of-the-mill "boy goes to New York to try to find himself" story. Nick is also gay, which adds a flair to his character, but doesn't completely define him. In fact, there are few expected sex/erotic scenes, which did help this book keep from becoming your expected gay erotic story. I liked reading about Nick's trouble of finding his place and see him go from having nothing and no place to really call home to, by the end of the book, having more friends, purpose, family and growth as an individual.
My complaint that keeps this from being a 'great' book is that it takes over half the book for the theme of being 'invisible' to really be addressed and applied to the main character. Around page 150 or so, things felt as if they were really picking up and the transition is almost jarring, making the previous part of the book feel as if it were nothing more than filler and wasted pages. The ending is quick and lacks the emotional punch I think Beck intended it to happen, having an almost sappy feel to it that completely goes against the grain of the rest of the book.
In all, a decent book that suffers from some plot/writing choices and an awkward ending. Not great but it's a good book.
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Summary: When You Don't See Me
Comment: Teh author Timothy James Beck brings all the characters to live & is yet another great novel he has written.
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Summary: Humorous and Quirky
Comment: I read this book fairly quickly, and its an ok book. I only wish the author dwelled more on the details when he needed to, rather than just skipping over an entire event, in just two sentences. I also wish the book put more emphasis on why the main character feels invisible even though he's a good looking, funny, intelligent, guy with a lot of friends, and people that love him....
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Summary: When You Don't Read Me
Comment: I thought this was a decent piece, but I kind of grew bored about halfway through, and I can barely remember any of the characters names while writing this review. Basically, the book follows the story of a lost young gay man on the verge of adulthood. For me, I found the characters at a stage in life where they were mostly unlikeable, and I had a hard time caring what happened at the end. Still, this is better than most of what is out there in gay fiction.
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Summary: Well, it was okay, but no 5 stars from this reader
Comment: Unlike many of the other reviewers, I have not read anything by this author prior to this novel. There was nothing really wrong with this book, it was a pretty good read, fairly well written, but it is not a novel I will remember. In fact, in the week or so since I read it, I've forgotten most of it already. In looking at some of the reviews I feel like they are talking about a different novel because I just wasn't impacted in ways that many of the other readers were. It received so many glowing comments that I felt I had to add my take, which is decidedly less enthusiastic. I feel like I've read this book,or a version of it, many times before, and just didn't find anything particularly moving or memorable in this one. Still, worth reading and at least as good, and better than, many of the other gay coming of age novels out there.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Being Invisible Is Nick Dunill's M.O. For nineteen years, he's been "the one who disappears" to his disapproving, Midwestern family. And now in New York City, a metropolis of anonymity built on not making eye contact, he feels right at home. Walking the streets of the Village, sneaking into dive bars, cleaning apartments, and trying to co-exist in a cramped apartment with his three roommates, Nick's trying to find his way without doing anything to put his wounded heart at risk, all the while wondering, "Does anything last?" But Nick's vanishing act is about to be challenged in ways he never dreamed. Little by little, he's being forced into the land of the living--into relationships and opportunities, love and sex, truth and acceptance, into the heartbreaking secrets of his past and the hopeful chances of his future. And the more visible Nick becomes, the more he realizes that in life and love, disappearing is not an option... "A book to get lost in."-Bay Area Reporter on Someone Like You "Funny and touching with wonderful characters."-The Texas Triangle on He's The One "A charming, humorously appealing tale."-Publishers Weekly on It Had To Be You
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