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A review by squids_can_read
Curveball by Eric Goodman
Did not finish book. Stopped at 37%.
DNF at 38%.
This book is about three generations of jewish americans, two of which are baseball pitchers. This book was meant to be about their life as they all get older and the youngest comes out as gay.
Let me just clarify that I mean no hate to the author and that I don't even know if this is a finished version of the book. However, this book felt homophobic to read.
All of the characters felt extremely similar with almost no defining characteristics. They all seemed to want to have sex all the time and when one of the characters is around 50 and the other is around 70 it's a little weird. Especially with skimmed over but open door sex scenes throughout the bit of the book that I read. I thought that the plot point about the one character having cancer was really interesting but then I think he like bleed into his wife and I literally almost vomited. Also the gay character never actually seemed to talk about how he was attracted to men except for saying it. But suddenly when there are attractive girls around he can pin point the things that he likes about them. And then the grandfather feels bad when the grandson comes out because he'll never feel the loving touch of a woman when he literally sleeps with one like five pages later. The lack of safe sex in this book is appalling by the way. I just couldn't stomach reading through more of it. If you are going to write a gay main character at least make him a little attracted to men.
Maybe this book just wasn't for me but I thought that the writing and characterization were abysmal. If you are looking for a good baseball book or a book with good queer representation, please give this one a pass.
This book is about three generations of jewish americans, two of which are baseball pitchers. This book was meant to be about their life as they all get older and the youngest comes out as gay.
Let me just clarify that I mean no hate to the author and that I don't even know if this is a finished version of the book. However, this book felt homophobic to read.
All of the characters felt extremely similar with almost no defining characteristics. They all seemed to want to have sex all the time and when one of the characters is around 50 and the other is around 70 it's a little weird. Especially with skimmed over but open door sex scenes throughout the bit of the book that I read. I thought that the plot point about the one character having cancer was really interesting but then I think he like bleed into his wife and I literally almost vomited. Also the gay character never actually seemed to talk about how he was attracted to men except for saying it. But suddenly when there are attractive girls around he can pin point the things that he likes about them. And then the grandfather feels bad when the grandson comes out because he'll never feel the loving touch of a woman when he literally sleeps with one like five pages later. The lack of safe sex in this book is appalling by the way. I just couldn't stomach reading through more of it. If you are going to write a gay main character at least make him a little attracted to men.
Maybe this book just wasn't for me but I thought that the writing and characterization were abysmal. If you are looking for a good baseball book or a book with good queer representation, please give this one a pass.