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Title: Not worth making it to the end--even if you could!
Review: Even if you are able to hack your way through Mr. White's slovenly prose, haphazard and random plotting, and hilarious pretentions to being a 'European' writer (this book is full of snide putdowns of American culture, but I guess the author's years abroad as an American in Paris entitle him to those, eh?)--why bother? The gay couple at the center of this book consists of two men so small-minded, self-involved, and unpersuasive that it's hard to imagine anyone caring what happens to them. White seems to think that by merely invoking the AIDS disaster, he can make this book be 'about' something; but I hope the gay community is beyond the point where we're supposed to be committed to a book or an author simply because it, or he, presses the right buttons. Judged as a literary work (as opposed to a poster for gay 'issues'), this is a total and inexcusable failure.
