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I've always read. While growing up, reading was a refuge when I found life too unpleasant or stressful. Consequently I've bought a lot of books over time as well.
Now that I'm no longer in the rich corporate phase of my life I've rediscovered the library. Dayton's library may be maligned by some but is still a great resource. One type of book I like to read is gay fiction and I was surprised to see a lot of it in the Dayton library's catalog. Plus you can even ask them to buy particular titles, and they will!
Below you can see the five most recent books either that I'm reading or that I've acquired. You can search my books, or you can see all my books. Also my classes page has links back to this page for the books for each class.
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Author: Hitchcock, Alfred
| 2007-01-26 | B000ECX0O2 | Rope | Hitchcock, Alfred | | | | I decided to watch this movie after seeing it mentioned somewhere as being based on the story of gay kidnappers/murders Leopold and Loeb. It's entertaining, though Hitchcock's gimmick of trying to shoot the entire film in sequence, zooming in on actors' backs when it was time to change reels of film, is awkward. True to Hollywood at the time, the homosexuality of the main characters is never mentioned, though John Dall and Farley Granger both do a good job of conveying their characters' relationship. James Stewart's performance is disappointing -- his character is supposed to have been gay in the play, but Stewart doesn't know how to play gay or how to convey properly his character's responsibility for what he taught his students. Farley Granger was quite a hottie and is gay in real life; he gives an interesting interview along with screenwriter Arthur Laurents in the special features on the DVD. | |
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