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  1. peter rietbergen
    Cane's analysis is, obviously, spot on. This chapter is both a moment that - as we'll perhaps read in the next one - somehow brings the relationship between B and L to a moment of truth of sorts, but it definitely also foreshadows an epiphany that we've seen slowly growing in the previous chapters. For indeed: "through a glass darkly"....
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    Of course, from this writer, and from the clues he always leaves, this was the expected development all the time. Any other one would not have been CW's. But as always the way the story is told, with details being so important that you almost don't see them, is what makes you forget that this is what the author planned. And you read on.
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    Prologue

    peter rietbergen commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Prologue

    actually, I hope I don't have to suggest that you use the obvious enthusiasm of your GA-followers to get as good a deal as possible from your publisher !!!
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    Prologue

    peter rietbergen commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Prologue

    No need to apologise at all. For whatever reasons - money, kudos, pride... - and despite the possibilities to reach a perhaps (far) greater readership offered by the Internet rather than the printed page, yet we all crave chances to "get published" in a traditional way...
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    Prologue

    peter rietbergen commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Prologue

    Good Heavens, another political thriller. And one that is addressing an - alas - highly urgent preblem: the power of Big Agro-business. In my country we blame the firms involved for their blatant political intrigues which, to a realy inacceptable extent - block a series of vital political decisions in a range of societal fields. Meanwhile: however much I deplore the "on hold"-situation of the door-knock tale: I really DO hope it will be published asap. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
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    Chapter 1

    peter rietbergen commented on Inkognito's story chapter in Chapter 1

    Post-modernity at its best, or worst..... No, change that: a very funny story which, indeed, we (reviewers) badly needed....
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    One can but hope....
  8. peter rietbergen
    This really is a romp of a story. The opposition(s) between the characters are hugly entertaining, the situations, though often absurdist, always funny. In short: read it!
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    Chapter 25

    peter rietbergen commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 25

    Whereas, in K's bookshop, the Lee Child-books are mostly boring - or so I think -, this chapter definitely was not. And no, I do not mean the sex. When people who love one another acknowledge the disparity of their dreams it is a huge thing. I'm glad you included that 'theme' in your tale.
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    Chapter 24

    peter rietbergen commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 24

    Ah, so you decided meticulously to describe every single detail of the real, physical body except for the 'treasure', and then hide it in a symbolic minefield...? Well, it is a choice... But shouldn't the real cleansing of the 'treasure' have been the center of this 'germ destruction', in this almost anthropologcally-analysed puritication ritual?
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    Chapter 35

    peter rietbergen commented on LittleBuddhaTW's story chapter in Chapter 35

    Interesting and, sometimes, convincing as this story is - as well as funny, often - I yet cannot imagine any fourteen-year old ever articulating his feelings in this way. Not even one who's supposed to be a "genius", whatever that may mean.
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    Chapter 24

    peter rietbergen commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 24

    Maybe it is my lack of knowledge of the male anatomy, or is Kenny missing part of it?
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    Simple, and convincing! Well done.
  14. peter rietbergen
    One word: Bravo. A veritable "tour-de-force". But yet... It seems, at least to me, that, emotionally-logically, part of the conversation between Jackson and his mother doesn't belong five years after he and Blake parted...
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    Chapter 23

    peter rietbergen commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 23

    Even though it was my feedback - it is your auctorial genius! You prevented disastrous developments for and between your protagonists, and saved "Merrickville" - no mean feat...😀
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    Chapter 23

    peter rietbergen commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 23

    a very clever and amusing solution to a problem the author set his characters - and himself...?
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    Short Story

    peter rietbergen commented on William King's story chapter in Short Story

    Idyllic? Yes. Lust? Yes. But love...?
  18. peter rietbergen
    Indeed: "and when was fiunding not?". It's a real pain in the ass, but increasingly the one thing that keeps "culture" afloat is, precisely, buttering up to those who have the money, whilst not caring whether they have "taste" or not...And, actually, was it ever not so? Did the Gonzaga, paying for the staging of the first performance of what came to be known as "opera", like music, or simply wanted to impresss their colleague-princelings?
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    Chapter 21

    peter rietbergen commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 21

    Alas, there's no M/M version of these old Hollywood Noir/Comedies...😃
  20. peter rietbergen
    Even if/when we know what "happened", it does 't matter (anymore). We know - have known from the first chapter, really... .- that Lynton and Alexander are "best friends". Actually, though weve been led to believe otherwise in this tale, we always knew that L knew Brad was (has been) a crush, only. Indeed, a physical crush, only, rather than a really emotional/intellectual one.
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    I disagree: " warm longing" is incompatible with "straight" friendship.
  22. peter rietbergen
    External, read, also eternal ...
  23. peter rietbergen
    It seems Cane has a ' practical' solution to the three-togetherness. I'm all for it. But will it work? How long can B and J hit the road? And, underlying: will they, eventually forced to actually live together, be able to "love" on an equal footing - the external problem of to share of not to share (aka as jealousy, insecurity et cetera) in a poly-amourous context.
  24. peter rietbergen
    Decision should be: delusion. I hate these typing devices.
  25. peter rietbergen
    One might argue that both J and S are right in their analysis, but neither will help create a situation that allows three men - specifically these three men, in this part of the USofA - to actually share a real life, rather than a fairy tale-one in some sort of "happy end"/"they lived happily ever after"-fashion. If the author, after the splendid job he did with this story, yet opts for one, he does himself short, or so I feel...If not, the promise suggested in this chapter is, for all three if them, a decision. Does that mean that - Miss Daisy's wisdom and wishes notwithstanding - this is a tragedy after all?
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