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Seminal books of my youth  [message #50998] Fri, 20 June 2008 17:18 Go to next 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
Re: Seminal books of my youth  [message #51003 is a reply to message #50998] Fri, 20 June 2008 20:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
acam is currently offline  acam

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Yes, Timmy,

What about "The Quest for Corvo" by A J Symons and "Hadrian VII" and "The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole" by the Baron Corvo sought (actually Frederick Rolfe) and "The World in Winter" by Ursula Le Guin (and others by her) and drawings by Aubrey Beardsley and Jean Cocteau (which one only got to see if one had rich friends into pornography). I feel sure there was quite a lot more science fiction with gay bits in it some of Heinlein I think and even Arthur C Clarke (I think he was gay).

I keep meaning to sort out my books. If I ever do I'll certainly find more.

Love,
Anthony
Re: Seminal books of my youth  [message #51008 is a reply to message #50998] Fri, 20 June 2008 20:57 Go to previous message
marc is currently offline  marc

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Reading took too much time.... I found it more stimulating to get out and find a wet, blond hair boy and screw him senseless.

Oh, if i couldnt find a blonde one there were boys with black, or red, or brown, some cut short, some cut long, oh.... dont forget the red-heads....

There was so little time for reading....



Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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