Dan Savage's The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family, is, sadly, likely to preach to the choir. I mean, what opponent of gay marriage will read it?
Dan Savage's writing style has matured, and this book got me a little teary here 'n there (shh, don't tell). It's everything you'd expect from the man who writes a sex column that encourages people to get their kink on, but it's a lot more than that too. There's genuine emotion behind everything he talks about, which ranges from retarded poodles to his mother's insistent pressure that he marry his boyfriend and "make an honest man of him." The book tells the story of Dan's mother planting the marriage seed in Dan's mind, and the twists and turns the little plant takes as it roots in the fertile soil of his intellect and reaches its tender fronds toward the light of day. Do Dan and Terry run away to Canada and get married at the end of the book? Is a frog's butt watertight?
Once I was in a bookstore where Dan Savage was doing a book signing for "Skipping Towards Gomorrah." There was an embarrassing incident with a butterknife.
I'm sleepy. This review sucks. But the book is really good.
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I must know the story of the butter knife.
Both of those books sound interesting, though. I may have to look into "Skipping Towards Gomorrah", the title alone...
The butterknife story is not actually all that interesting, although there is some sordidness to it.
I have "Skipping" if you'd like to borrow it, but be forewarned--it is riddled with errors. I got it as an uncorrected proof and it is the messiest uncorrected proof I have ever read. It would probably give me a heart attack if I tried to read it now that I am a proofreader. :)
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