Title: If this is great literature, so is Drummer.
Product review: When I first came out to my family, my mother gave me this book, thinking that it would teach me how to be gay. Instead, if I had been able to take it seriously, it would have scared me back into the closet.The main character sees everything, does most of it, and learns nothing. He behaves arbitrarily, without motivation; even at the climax, his thoughts, words, and actions just happen.At best, it provides some interesting snapshots of a lost and unlamented subculture based on oppression and internalized homophobia. If you want to read about that part of history, get a nonfiction book by some other author.
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