Buddies
Registered by GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 8/21/2005
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3 journalers for this copy...
This is the second book in Mordden's "Buddies" series, and mixes more tales of Bud, Dennis Savage, Little Kiwi, and friends with stories that focus on characters outside of the cycle. The stories touch on friendship, brotherhood, romance, desire, and just making one's way in the world, and as always the language is lyrical and the stories funny, poignant, and sometimes frightening. I love them!
There's too much quotable prose here, but for a sample: several characters have just had a quarrel - emotional things going on for several of them in different ways - and Bud-the-narrator retires to the deck with Martin Chuzzlewit to get out of the way. He muses "if Dickens had seen a gay American instead of the intolerant jackoff straight kind he did see, he might have had a better time here." [It helps if you've read Martin Chuzzlewit, in which Dickens tears the USA a new one {grin}.] Bud is being rather intolerant himself at this point, and gets called on it later by his friends, leading to a surprising discussion of belonging and what it means to be gay...
This is also the book in which we find out how Little Kiwi came by that name, but I'm not telling; you'll have to read the book.
The books in the series can each be read alone - the loosely-connected-story theme is carried on throughout - but if you do read the series in order, you can pick up on long-term character-development. The series:
I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore
Buddies
Everybody Loves You
Some Men Are Lookers
How's Your Romance
There's too much quotable prose here, but for a sample: several characters have just had a quarrel - emotional things going on for several of them in different ways - and Bud-the-narrator retires to the deck with Martin Chuzzlewit to get out of the way. He muses "if Dickens had seen a gay American instead of the intolerant jackoff straight kind he did see, he might have had a better time here." [It helps if you've read Martin Chuzzlewit, in which Dickens tears the USA a new one {grin}.] Bud is being rather intolerant himself at this point, and gets called on it later by his friends, leading to a surprising discussion of belonging and what it means to be gay...
This is also the book in which we find out how Little Kiwi came by that name, but I'm not telling; you'll have to read the book.
The books in the series can each be read alone - the loosely-connected-story theme is carried on throughout - but if you do read the series in order, you can pick up on long-term character-development. The series:
I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore
Buddies
Everybody Loves You
Some Men Are Lookers
How's Your Romance
I'm adding this to the LGBTQ+ bookbox, which will be on its way to its next stop soon. Enjoy!
This book rode to the end of the bookbox.
I liked this book quite a bit better than I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore. I think the more somber, self-reflective tone meshed better for me than the cattiness of the first. Or maybe I was just in a better mood myself! There is no shortage of snark, but it felt more targeted. The writing in general felt more rounded and confident in conveying feeling as well as image, and the author's voice as his narrator felt clearer.
I also felt like the characters were more solid. Some of this is probably based on familiarity, but it applied to the new characters as well. It was easy to almost slip into thinking they were real people, in a real memoir.
I also felt like the characters were more solid. Some of this is probably based on familiarity, but it applied to the new characters as well. It was easy to almost slip into thinking they were real people, in a real memoir.
One of the books starting out in The Anthology Assortment Bookbox
Received in the Anthology bookbox.
#2 book in the Buddies series. Since this is part of a series, I have decided to pass this book along for someone else to enjoy.
#2 book in the Buddies series. Since this is part of a series, I have decided to pass this book along for someone else to enjoy.
Journal Entry 7 by Chicvolley99 at LFL - 12th Ave. And Lincoln St. #12306 in Denver, Colorado USA on Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (12/5/2018 UTC) at LFL - 12th Ave. And Lincoln St. #12306 in Denver, Colorado USA
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Released at the Little Free Library at 12th and Lincoln. Please enjoy!