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Every Man for Himself
John Eames finds himself caught between parallel lives on the eve of his thirty-third birthday--one as the dutiful husband to a stoic and boring history professor and the other as a gay man searching for undeniable passion.
317 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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August 11, 2018
I have to be honest, I didn't and couldn't finish reading this book.I had read it eons ago,probably a year or 2 after it was first published. I thought it was so good back then. The book was written in 1999, I think I read it in 2000. At any rate,I read it a few more times,and it was my go to book. I then lost the book, years later I thought about it and for some reason and couldn't remember the author of title. I even tried to write a synopsis of the book on a site that will find the name of the book for you. I was thinking it was a series (it's not) and most of the answers were William J Mann's wonderful The Men From The Boys series (it wasn't). So this year, I accidentally found the book after reading a synopsis of it and found a copy for a very low cost (despite the horrible cover) .The book arrived and I started to read it and couldn't.
I finally started and after reading it and after reading 2 chapters I had enough. The book has such an unlikable and narcissistic MC. I read my share of books with unlikable MC's but I had enough of this fool and his petty complaints. The MC (can't remember his name has been given a second chance (he's HIV+) with the drug cocktail. He's also given steroids (which gives him muscle) a new gym routine and learning to eat right. Soon his viral load is undetectable and he's turning gay men heads because he's hot, hot,hot. His ego become so big it's nauseating. He soon is longing to ditch his loving boyfriend, Harrison (his name I remember) because he's a bore and overweight.The fool than decides to run with a younger crowd, acts like an over sexed teenager and becomes addicted to crystal meth.He soon learns the hard way by his new friends that there's nothing like a thirtysomething reliving his "youth" and becoming addicted to Chrissy .He make the younger crowd laugh at your pathetic ass ,as he does the overhead finger snapping and dancing. He was once not and now he's not. Now Harrison's friend decide the only way to get the now reformed MC back is to get the professor (whose on vacation for several months) on an exercise and eating healthy routine. The professor is soon hot, hot, hot when once not. I won't tell you the ending. I keep wondering why I once thought this was a masterpiece of writing... Its certainly,not,not,not!😦
I finally started and after reading it and after reading 2 chapters I had enough. The book has such an unlikable and narcissistic MC. I read my share of books with unlikable MC's but I had enough of this fool and his petty complaints. The MC (can't remember his name has been given a second chance (he's HIV+) with the drug cocktail. He's also given steroids (which gives him muscle) a new gym routine and learning to eat right. Soon his viral load is undetectable and he's turning gay men heads because he's hot, hot,hot. His ego become so big it's nauseating. He soon is longing to ditch his loving boyfriend, Harrison (his name I remember) because he's a bore and overweight.The fool than decides to run with a younger crowd, acts like an over sexed teenager and becomes addicted to crystal meth.He soon learns the hard way by his new friends that there's nothing like a thirtysomething reliving his "youth" and becoming addicted to Chrissy .He make the younger crowd laugh at your pathetic ass ,as he does the overhead finger snapping and dancing. He was once not and now he's not. Now Harrison's friend decide the only way to get the now reformed MC back is to get the professor (whose on vacation for several months) on an exercise and eating healthy routine. The professor is soon hot, hot, hot when once not. I won't tell you the ending. I keep wondering why I once thought this was a masterpiece of writing... Its certainly,not,not,not!😦
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September 4, 2020
Way too soapy.
January 27, 2016
This novel deceives with its image of multiple, giddily smiling men engaged in a three-way embrace on the cover. There are more serious matters at stake than gay men getting it on with each other (although they do, with a lot of partners and little remorse after it). Every Man for Himself explores all the various issues that tag along with homosexuality: the emphasis on good looks, great bodies, perfect clothing, youth, promiscuity, drugs, politics, et al. It shows what happens when one partner changes in a relationship and the other doesn’t and how radically physical alterations can affect even long-term partnerships.
There’s no such thing as simple physical beauty, not in a world where your dating pool is just 10 or 12% of the population. From being an invisible wallflower to being the boy who gets checked out by everybody (it’s amazing the perks beauty can buy for men and women) is a heady change, one that effects both the looker and the object of adoration. This book digs deep into the charms and pitfalls of beauty, the dangers and pleasures of drug use, the frustration of the generational gap that can make pursuit of the young a deadly bore (or a piquant charm) and the contrast between Mr. Right and Mr. Right Now. It doesn’t sidestep issues nor does it preach or proselytize. It treads the middle path with firmness and clarity.
Boys just want to have fun and who can blame them? I highly recommend this book for those who like their m/m novels with sugar and spice.
There’s no such thing as simple physical beauty, not in a world where your dating pool is just 10 or 12% of the population. From being an invisible wallflower to being the boy who gets checked out by everybody (it’s amazing the perks beauty can buy for men and women) is a heady change, one that effects both the looker and the object of adoration. This book digs deep into the charms and pitfalls of beauty, the dangers and pleasures of drug use, the frustration of the generational gap that can make pursuit of the young a deadly bore (or a piquant charm) and the contrast between Mr. Right and Mr. Right Now. It doesn’t sidestep issues nor does it preach or proselytize. It treads the middle path with firmness and clarity.
Boys just want to have fun and who can blame them? I highly recommend this book for those who like their m/m novels with sugar and spice.
November 8, 2007
This was the second of two of Orland Outland's books I read within a month's time. Again, there were guilty pleasure aspects, some stuff that almost didn't work, but was generally validated by the end. And more issues and thinking! I started noticing the pattern in this one. The hard-hitting stuff starts readily presenting itself about 3/4ths of the way through. He doesn't want to beat you over the head with his opinions, but he wants to make sure you're thoroughly sucked in before serving up his opinions on culture and society. This took no more than a weekend.
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