Can't seem to get into this one right now. Maybe I'll give it a second chance another time. It sounds like it'll be a good read, but I guess I have to be in the mood for this type of book.
I am constantly impressed by Edward C. Patterson's novels, and The Road to Grafenwöhr is no exception. It's the story of PFC Quincy Summerson, a Vietnam era draftee, who is sent to the kaserne at Grafenwohr as a radioman but is taken into the headquarters as a clerk instead.There, he not only makes ...
This book ripped my heart out, stomped on it and left it quivering in the dust! But it was done so masterfully. Mr. Patterson has the ability to create characters that come to life, change and grow before our eyes.
Omg. I'm still crying.
Author Edward C. Patterson has done more than provide a "how to" guide for formatting self-published or independently published books with this work. He's also provided one of the finest primers I've ever seen on editing a novel (including pitfalls to avoid), with splendid examples.This is the kind...
Keep tissues handy when you read this beautiful love story that takes place in the early days of HIV/AIDS. I wept many times.Edward C. Patterson's "Look Away Silence" is a story about many kinds of love besides the romance between Matt and Martin; it is about loving communities and families, and vo...
Well-written and moving, "No Irish Need Apply" is a coming of age story about two gay youths, Kevin and Louis. They meet in school as assigned study partners and eventually discover that they feel more for one another than friendship.Patterson treats the challenges of gay youth (dealing with homoph...
This is the most powerfully poignant book I've ever read and I doubt I'll be able to read it again. But it's a book that needs to be read, it's a story that needs to be remembered. It brings into focus a period in history that many were just spectators for, and lets us witness two men falling in lov...
I've liked all of the books I've read by Edward C. Patterson. "Surviving an American Gulag" is the first one that actually made me cry.Patterson's protagonist, Private Winslow Gibbs, is an overweight draftee soldier during the Vietnam era. He is assigned to a special training unit at Fort Gordon i...
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