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Invisible Life: A Novel
: Mr. Harris has taken homosexual characters and brought them into our lives so much that we forget they are gay. This book and the others that follow teaches us not only the imporatance of truth in relationships, but allows us to see how they develop. A truly great fiction writer not only captures you, but draws you into the story, somehow paralleling your own life. Mr. Harris does this, straight or gay. All of those that critize this writer should read his books. You will find yourself laughing, crying, and oftentimes talking to the characters, sometimes outloud forgetting it is just a book!
This book was excellent. I am just now discovering E. Lynn Harris, only because he recently came to my city and everyone was raving about him. I had to find out why. I read this book in two days, really 1 1/2 days. I have already moved to the next book and in the process of purchasing more. This book gave me a deeper understanding of bisexuality and the similar feelings they have with hetetosexuals. It was a page turner. I recommend this to anyone who believes our minds can be open.
I read Invisible Life, it was a great book. I read it in two days. Just As I Am, And This too Shall Pass were all dynamite books. I like the way E. Lynn bought back John Basil in his last book If This World Was Mine. It was simply beautiful. I feel as though I've actually met all of the characters from all of the books. Why not make this into a movie, or a mini series.
You would pack the house. When are you coming to Jacksonville as part of your tour? I think you would get a warm reception if you were to come here.
E. Lynn you can't stop here you must go on and write the sequal to "If This World was Mine".
Keep up the good work E Lynn, and hurry with that new book.
I my rating is a 10.
Once I started reading this book, I was hooked. However, it left too many questions unanswered. Harris should have worked harder to make Raymond's discovery of his sexuality more believable. I can't believe Raymond, for those many years, being around all of those guys, never had homosexual tendancies. I just don't believe that. There should have been some precurser to make this realization more believable. The other issue that I questioned was Nicole and her insecurities regarding the way she looked. For someone who had so many complexes about her appearance, why would she even enter a beauty contest. It didn't make sense. Harris got off track with this one. Either she didn't think she was beautiful, or she did. With those two issues out of the way, the book still made for interesting and enlightening reading.
I just don't get it -- or maybe I do. Harris writes about confused black bisexual men and that makes some straight sisters and white folks comfortable. I could not relate to this book at all. Someone had the gall to call it "afrocentric"? There ain't a thing about it that is -- unless one views portraying African-American men as sexually schizophrenic, emotionally empty, and spiritually bankrupt as "afrocentric." The only real character in this book is Kyle, the Brother who has it together -- and, what do you know, he turns out to be a hustler! I know self-hate when I read it and I think Mr. harris just doesn't like being gay. A sad tale -- on more than one level. Where's James Earl Hardy when ya need him
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