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Sandra H wrote this review Sunday, August 16 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“LOVED it!”
Amanda B wrote this review Wednesday, August 5 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Being an original Seattleite, born/raised, never moved away (well, I did move to the ‘burbs), I’ve been reading Savage Love in the Stranger for as long as I can remember. I’ve continued to read his work as it expanded to his books, non Savage Love articles/columns/blogs, and I also enjoy his appearances on different TV shows such as Real Time with Bill Maher, and the VH1 “I Love the…” series.
Boogie wrote this review Tuesday, June 23 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Obviously I’m very familiar with his work and therefore he’s preaching to the choir as far as gay rights go, and so that topic in the book was nothing I didn’t already know or believe. What I really enjoyed, though, were the basic relationship stuff. I loved the struggle he and Terry had with not knowing if they wanted to get married or not. After watching my mom getting married and divorced five times, I’ve always had a bad taste in my own mouth about marriage. And so there were a lot of similar discussions and arguments between my wife and I before we finally got married (however, they were one-sided, as she never doubted that she wanted to get married).
As a recent first-time father, I was also able to relate greatly to a lot of the points he made about their son. My son is only 10-months old and already I’m starting to fear the day that he won’t able to sit on my lap, or snuggle in my arms on the couch. When you take away the civil rights aspect (which are good, just redundant to those that already are pro gay-rights) of the book, it’s a very touching family story that isn’t much different than many others, and I find that enjoyable.
Of course my big complaint, which is the same for all of his books, is that he doesn’t adjust his tone when writing in long form. Too often he uses a writing style that is better suited for use in a column form. To many parenthesis, more than once breaks the forth wall to make a comment to his “publisher”, and of course the stupid “fake ending.” And no, that is not a spoiler, as it’s so blatant that it would be impossible to be faked out.
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“Funny at times, painfully overwritten at others, it certainly has a place though. This is a book that I would recommend to people like my mother. She's not entirely alright with gay marriage, though she's a democrat and generally for equal rights, she just doesn't know what to make of it, she doesn't know many gay people, her religion says it's a no-no, but she disagrees with other things her religion says, so there's room... a book like this could help her comfort level, could give her ways to think about and talk about gay marriage that register with where she's coming from.
MjdC wrote this review Saturday, January 24 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I think this book definitely has a use, but for most liberals who already know how to think and talk about gay marriage it's not going to be seriously stimulating for them, nor do I think it was intended to be.”
“As the SAVAGE LOVE columnist (who is Gay) in many alternative newspapers, I thought this would be a little racier, but it was pretty much "Should we get married or not?" In view of California's recent ruling, I guess it would be a timely read. Straight readers will not be overly offended by it.”
Lee B wrote this review Friday, June 20 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Hilarious! I love reading about other crazy families.”
Katy wrote this review Monday, November 12 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I think Dan Savage is hilarious! I read this ssoooo fast...and it made me stop and think about lots of things at the same time. :-)”
Violet A wrote this review Monday, November 5 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“While I love Dan Savage, he's by far at his best when he's not writing about himself. The basic story of marrying his boyfriend in Canada interesting and well-put, but he succumbs to a lot of sappiness in the description of it that I know is beneath him - he's written much better than this (See Skipping Towards Gomorrah).”
duncan81 wrote this review Saturday, November 3 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
