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Title: an insult to the reader's intelligence
Review: I was sick in bed this weekend and decided to have another look at "Toby's Lie"-- what an outlandish, poorly plotted excuse for a novel. It's as if the author didn't read through the manuscript a second time-- the narrative is just totally incoherent, and the dialogue is terrible. It's fevered and overwrought, and while such a tone jives with my memories of my first homosexual l-u-v in high school, there is no ironic distance between the author and narrator, and I was left with the suspicion that Vilmure must be as silly and self-dramatizing as his protagonist. There are far better books about the adolescent homosexual experience out there. Buy one of them instead.
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