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Boy Erased
- A Memoir
- By: Garrard Conley
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,126
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,025
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,023
The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a 19-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to "cure" him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not What I’d Hoped
- By JayJay on 06-22-18
- Boy Erased
- A Memoir
- By: Garrard Conley
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
A terrifying recount of emotional struggle
Reviewed: 01-28-20
Loved it. Put it on my wish list after watching the movie. the book doesn't centre as much on the ex-gay therapy as the film does. here the focus is more on the whole coming-of-age story in which the therapy only played the key event. having read a number of autobiographies of lgbtq people this is one of my favorites comparable to Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story. The fact that the author is a Professional writer is evident here, the book is magnificently executed when it comes to structure and language
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Metro 2034
- By: Dmitry Glukhovsky
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,910
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,609
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,610
The Metro books have put Dmitry Glukhovsky in the vanguard of Russian speculative fiction alongside the creator of Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko. A year after the events of Metro 2033, the last few survivors of the apocalypse, surrounded by mutants and monsters, face a terrifying new danger as they hang on for survival in the tunnels of the Moscow Metro. Featuring blistering action, vivid and tough characters, claustrophobic tension and dark satire, the Metro books have become bestsellers across Europe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A big step down from the original
- By Nate on 09-14-17
- Metro 2034
- By: Dmitry Glukhovsky
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
Lacks everything that made the first book amazing
Reviewed: 05-22-19
Starts out interesting and thrilling, but then the story turns out to be flat and linear without any thrill. The characters are boring, cliché, and two dimensional.
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City Boy
- My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
- By: Edmund White
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4 out of 5 stars 70
In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in City Boy: a place of enormous intrigue and artistic tumult.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pretense upon pretense.
- By Shalin Desai on 06-01-15
- City Boy
- My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
- By: Edmund White
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
Lecture on '70s literature?
Reviewed: 10-05-18
I love Edmund White's novels, but it was hard to struggle through this one. Large portions of the books are about subjects which are only intriguing for scholars of literature or philisophy.
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