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Terfex.com - Strings Attached
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List Price: $12.99
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Manufacturer: BookSurge Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781419628894
ISBN: 1419628895
Label: BookSurge Publishing
Manufacturer: BookSurge Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 312
Publication Date: 2006-06-12
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Release Date: 2006-04-19
Studio: BookSurge Publishing
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Editorial Reviews:
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From BOOKS TO WATCH OUT FOR by RICHARD LABONTE, Volume 4 number 1 - Adolescence is a hazardous way of life for 17-year-old Jeremy Tyler; his father died in a mysterious accident when he was a child, and his mother has since descended into alcoholic hell and forced rehab; that's when he's sent from the Fresno slums of his childhood to the posh estate of his overbearing great aunt Katherine and her censorious husband - liberated from an economic prison, only to land in an emotional one - and is overwhelmed by the change. It's not easy for him to fit into the upper crust, particularly because he's trying to hide how much he's attracted to other boys. Jeremy's story of breaking free from the strands of dishonesty, deceit, and self-doubt has its parallels to the tale of Pinocchio, but Nolan's queer take is totally contemporary: think the TV series The OC - girls with mean cheekbones, well-built guys with snotty attitudes, and Jeremy in the role of a queer Ryan Atwood. He's a good-looking kid, with a sleek swimmer's physique - and the swim team's champ is out to get him. He dates one of the smart-set girls in an attempt to keep his gay hormones at bay - but that doesn't do him much good. Nolan's debut novel is a kitchen sink of genres - coming of age, coming out, mystery, romance, erotica, even a dash of the supernatural - that add up to an impressive story about the passage from boyhood to manhood.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Wonderfully written gay romance
Comment: Strings Attached has proved to be one of my all time favorite gay romance novels. It is extremely well written and is a compelling read. I could not put it down. I enjoyed it so much I bought Double Bound.
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Summary: surprisingly great story!
Comment: In the first chapter I stumbled on a couple of errors in both grammar and word-usage that almost made me toss this great story aside. Something, however, hooked my interest and STRINGS ATTACHED turned into a compelling page-turner. It is a very enjoyable read, and I found it nearly impossible to put down!
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Summary: CAN'T-PUT-IT-DOWN STORY, BEAUTIFUL WRITING
Comment: I just finished reading `Strings Attached' for the second time last night, and I'm just as curious to know what happens next as I was when I read it over a year ago. The writing is fast paced, and has moments approaching some of the best literature I've read. Nolan has a gift for description, so you can really see what is happening in the story. I especially loved the scenic descriptions and the relationship between Jeremy and Arthur, and how many surprises and twists there are toward the end that I absolutely didn't see coming. The Pinocchio theme is subtle, so you can read this and enjoy it with or without knowing the references in the story. I loved this book, and can't wait to buy the sequel (when is it coming out???)
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Summary: A quick read
Comment: I just happen to stumble across this book and found it to be a quick read. The storyline flowed easily and Mr. Nolan made the characters likeable.
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Summary: Smooth read but poor writing
Comment: 'Strings attached' could be so much more. The plot is very charming, but the lack of strength in its writing makes the whole story seems like a bad-concealed re-telling of the Pinocchio tale -a thing the writer himself stresses in the foreword, which I thought was unnecessary.
Sometimes, you can see right through the writers' intentions when he writes something down (when the narrator makes some elements come too close to the puppet's story, for instance) -and that's it. You have no depth of meaning that could entice you to future re-readings.
But, sure, the characters are very easy to relate to. That much is to be credited to Nolan.
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