Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever
by:
Joel Derfner (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009BLG2XI
Publish date: May 13th 2008
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Funny,
Glbt,
Queer,
Gay
I was really surprised by this book. Derfner did a great job weaving seamingly shallow things together with much deeper views on life. He did a great job of setting up a low expectation with the self-deprecating talk in the introduction, making the reader think he was just cranking something out f...
This is a very well written memoir and I found myself laughing out loud while at time being very saddened by his story of growing up. I really enjoyed his essay about camp (Camp Camp ?!? for gay kids) and the story about becoming a cheerleading was equally funny. Unfortunately, by the end of the b...
Contrary to what the jacket copy promises, this is not one long hilarious romp. It does have moments wherein I dissolved in helpless, snorting laughter though. It's much more memoir than humor, and memoir with insight and angst. I enjoyed it a lot, but found Derfner's repetitive inner self-hating mo...
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