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Seminal books of my youth  [message #50998] Fri, 20 June 2008 17:18 Go to previous message
timmy

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Ah yes, the pun is intended!
  • Lord Dismiss us, by Michael Campbell. Hindsight is perfect, but rereading it recently it was dull and turgid
  • pretty much anything by Mary Renault
  • Fielding Gray, by Simon Raven
  • The Hand Reared Boy, by Brian Aldiss
  • Maurice, by E M Forster
There must have been more, there must have been, but these were books I could read at home under my parents' gaze without causing them to wonder what I was reading!

I also liked the Argos catalogue in the 1960s because there was a picture of a wet blond boy's bum in a shower!


Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
 
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