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| Sweetness |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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Prior to Mr. Harris untimely death, I had never read any of his writings. Nor was I familiar with his popularity. I read this book while on a four hour flight and the flow of the book made the flight appear shorter than four hours. His coming out of the closet or being in the closet left something to be desired. Being Black,Gay and living in the South appear to not have limited his opportunities to evolve. This book was a reasonable introduction to his other writings. I would not elect to read his other writings.
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| What Becomes of the Brokenhearted |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Easily the best and most poignant book written by author E Lynn Harris, in my opinion out of all of his books of fiction this one is easily the most dynamic and dramatic narrative written.
To me, it brings in to mind the saying that goes that "sometimes reality is stranger than fiction" or in the case more insightful and more entertaining. In this book, Harris chronicles his earliest memories with an astounding clarity growing up poor in the south, dealing with the precarious rules of masculinity through the oft times spiteful and abusive father, the highlights of his scholastic experiences in school, and then coming to terms with his budding sexuality.
Throughout the narrative you can feel organic substance throughout as if you are actually living in the nuisances of living in the South of the fifties and sixties. As with all memoirs, this one is as equally if not more inspirational by the fact that we are taken through the author's struggle with alcoholism and trying to make it during the current economic situation of the eighties and nineties changing landscapes from college life in North Carolina, and his adult life in Washington DC to which he comes of age as a gay man has to content with the slings and arrows of attempted romantic situations which leads back into alcoholism.
Harris deals with some very difficult situations that are in extreme contrast to the soap operatic fictions that made him a household name, which was shocking for me, that he was a palpable organic suffering "average Joe" who suffers his demons and triumphs over all.
It is understandable, that when I heard of the death of E Lynn Harris that this book out of all of his other works was sold out in every bookstore in Washington DC, Virginia, and Maryland, it is the de riguer E Lynn Harris work for fans of his work.
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| What becomes of the Brokenhearted |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Initially i paid for a new copy of E Lynn Harris's What Becomes of the Brokenhearted. What I received was a USED copy with a broken spine. I wrote to Amazon and the company and in two weeks I received a new copy of the book. Now I am very pleased as I keep all of my hard bound books and in execellent conditions. Thanks for the replacement NEW copy.
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| Best author ever! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I loved his work. This book helped me understand him better. RIP E.Lynn Harris!
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| Whine Whine Whine |
| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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I can not believe how ungrateful and sorry for himself E Lynne Harris is. This was also my first book by him and it will also be my last. There were wonderful people helping him along the way..but that is NOTHING compared to all the indignities he feels he has had to endure. Any mistakes he made were excused away... What a waste of time.
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