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Bob Smith

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December 24, 1958

Died

January 20, 2018

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"Bob Smith is a real writer . . . . But what readers, gay and straight, will really appreciate are the direct approach and the eye for detail that make this book a touchingly personal document.. . . Smith brings a sensibility and a sensitivity that make this one of the most rewarding gay books of the year." — Lambda Book Report "(LY BOB is a dazzlingly funny, semiautobiographical, hardcover one-man show." — Paper ...more

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Average rating: 3.71 · 1,279 ratings · 186 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Remembrance of Things I Forgot 3.55 avg rating — 495 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Openly Bob: Candid and Wry Comic Essays on Gay Life in a Straight Society 3.78 avg rating — 347 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selfish and Perverse 3.80 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Way to Go, Smith: Lambda Award-Nominated Comic Essays on Gay Adolescence with Ingeniously Ironic and Nostalgic Humor 3.86 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growing Up Gay: From Left Out to Coming Out by Jaffe Cohen, Bob Smith, Funny Gay Males 3.57 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Treehab: Tales from My Natural, Wild Life 4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It wasn't easy telling my family that I'm gay. I made my carefully worded announcement at Thanksgiving. It was very Norman Rockwell. I said, 'Mom, would you please pass the gravy to a homosexual?' She passed it to my father. A terrible scene followed.”
― Bob Smith

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“Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret.”
― Bob Smith, Openly Bob: Candid and Wry Comic Essays on Gay Life in a Straight Society

tags: humor, smile

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“One of the many problems with aging is that you begin to think of yourself as a slob because your birthday suit can never be cleaned or pressed no matter how spotted or wrinkled it gets”
― Bob Smith, Remembrance of Things I Forgot

tags: aging, birthday-suit, wrinkles

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