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A review by melissafirman
The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family by Dan Savage
Did not finish book. Stopped at 33%.
I really liked Dan Savage's memoir The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant so I thought I would try this one during June for PRIDE Month. Made it to page 97 before DNFing. Set during the summer of 2004, most of those pages take place during a family vacation (with Dan's extended family) in Michigan. (Dan, his boyfriend Terry, their son D.J., and their toy poodle Stinker drive to the vacation spot from Seattle.) Dan's family (particularly his mother) pressure him and his boyfriend Terry to get married, despite the fact that their six-year-old son D.J. doesn't want them to.
My main reason for DNFing was because this back-and-forth takes up most of the book's first 100 pages, mixed in with political commentary. And as other reviewers remarked, there are several instances of rather off-putting remarks about strangers' weight and not wanting to get married because you "don't want to be like straight people." Finally, it's extremely repetitive and because I know what happens in the end, there wasn't much motivation or interest to continue onward.
My main reason for DNFing was because this back-and-forth takes up most of the book's first 100 pages, mixed in with political commentary. And as other reviewers remarked, there are several instances of rather off-putting remarks about strangers' weight and not wanting to get married because you "don't want to be like straight people." Finally, it's extremely repetitive and because I know what happens in the end, there wasn't much motivation or interest to continue onward.