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Title: Very humdrum
Review: Mr Woog's book lacks style and has... this big measure - "coming out". Coming out is an individual thing and personalities vary. Lives vary. Every interview was preoccupied with whether the guy was "out" or not. The problem was that the related stories showed no correlation with sexual status. The book was badly preoccupied with this one fact.Gay Men; Straight Jobs was a very poor attempt to interview a group of interesting men. Mr Woog seemed to have a set formula (a very poor formula at that) which he followed with each man he interviewed. The book provided little insight into the interviewed men's lives and provided a very dull read. There was no attempt by the author to tie threads of commonality or diversity between the different people. Life is not whether you are out or not; its how you lead your life which is important.
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