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Title: Blackwater Lightship
Review: Just what the world needs, another book about a gay man dying of AIDS. As hungry as I am for works by gay authors, or with good positive gay characters, I'm sick to death of this dying theme. I wish there were authors, or publishers who were original enough to realize that gay men do other things besides die of AIDS. This is a fine author, and the book is well written, and I'm really glad to see that attitudes in Ireland are changing, but couldn't he have chosen some other way of showing that than to have the guy die of AIDS. Perhaps even to have found a friend and having had his family embrace his gayness in living rather than dying? If you are not as sick of this theme as I am, then this is a fine book.
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