Whistle Stopper - The Back Passage

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Manufacturer: Cleis Press

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9781573442435
ISBN: 1573442437
Label: Cleis Press
Manufacturer: Cleis Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 2006-05-05
Publisher: Cleis Press
Studio: Cleis Press

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Summary: a porno book
Comment: You know how some books are made into movie adaptations. Well, think of *The Back Passage* as a book adaptation of a gay porn. Really!

Mitch is an American student studying in Cambridge. Well, really, he's not studying. He's too busy "doing it" with all the guys he encounters in his "room and board". He's doing it with his roommate, his sidekick, a driver, a bobby (cop) and even a guy he hates. Like I said, he's just doing every guy...all the while he's investigating a death.

Keep in mind that if and when you get this book, it's just purely for entertainment. Don't expect an impressive storyline or character development. Just get this for a good naughty read.

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Summary: Hilarious and bawdy
Comment: I loved this book. The writing style, in first person, is so smooth you never get bogged down inside the mind of the narrator where so many others fail who try this point of view. It flowed flawlessly and you never even noticed it was from one man's perspective. I laughed out loud at some of the scenes. It was such a wonderful parady of the old whodunit I thought it was brilliant. And the narrator/author knows darn well it's tongue-in-cheek because often he chides himself during his musing. The sex is abundant and reminds me of Fielding's Tom Jones, because everyone wants a piece. The scene with the reporter in the garage was particularly funny. Well, done. I recommend it to anyone who has a very good sense of humor and likes a wild and crazy ride.

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Summary: Oh. My. Gawd.
Comment: I'm no prude, but there's just waaaaay too much getting-it-on going on in this one. The mystery is more of an aside, and a not-so-interesting one at that.

There are some things I like about this book: the characters are funny and likeable; the setting is lovely; the humor is consistent and made me laugh even while I was blushing.

That said, I'd read something else by this author in the hopes that there'd be fewer intimate goings-on and more substance.

(On the bright side, I am significantly more knowledgable about certain things than I ever expected to be.)

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Summary: "The Back Passage"
Comment: Interesting book. Once the plot 'thickened' and got moving, it was difficult to stop until finished. Lots of sex, humor when unexpected & funny. Maybe Lear should watch more BBC/WGBH productions to better understand the genre. Pretty good and I would read anything else he has if similar. Change the cover.

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Summary: Hot and hilarious.
Comment: I laughed out loud more than once reading this. The writing is witty, the sex is fairly filthy (and described crudely enough that it might put some readers off) and the characters are appealingly human. I really wish the author's other books would come back from the out-of-print wilderness because I would love to read more.

If you like a good mystery and lots of graphic m/m sex, this is the one for you.

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Agatha Christie, move over! Hard-core sex and scandal meet in this brilliantly funny whodunit.
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. When Reg Walworth is found dead in a cabinet, Sir James Eagle has his servant Weeks immediately arrested as the killer. But Mitch’s observant eye pegs more plausible possibilities: polysexual chauffeur Hibbert, queenly pervert Leonard Eagle, missing scion Rex, sadistic copper Kennington, even Sir James Eagle himself. Blackmail, police corruption, a dizzying network of spyholes and secret passages, watersports, and a nonstop queer orgy backstairs and everyplace else mark this hilariously hard-core mystery by a major new talent.