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Dream Boy

Jim Grimsley

Paperback | Pages: 195 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 4146 Users | 335 Reviews

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Original Title:	Dream Boy: A Novel
ISBN:	0684829924 (ISBN13: 9780684829920)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Nathan Davies, Roy, Evelyn, Randy, Burke
Literary Awards:	Stonewall Book Award for Literature (1996), Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Men's Fiction (1996)

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Some books don't deserve ratings. Not because they're just that bad, but because a number cannot encapsulate everything found within their bindings. Dream Boy, for me, is one of those books - what I liked about it is also what prevented me from loving it fully.

First published over ten years ago at a succinct 195 pages, Dream Boy revolves around Nathan, a sophomore in high school who falls into a complex relationship with Roy, a senior. Nathan comes from a troubled home. His alcoholic father exemplifies sanctimony while his mother wisps around like a leaf. Roy gives him warmth, but at a cost - he doesn't want Nathan to tell anyone about their relationship.

Dream Boy is about young adults, but might not be for young adults. Grimsley's writing is concise and almost clinical, yet strongly sensual and violent. His brevity brings Nathan's insecurities and abuse to life. On the surface this book may appear to be about a relationship between two boys, but it has a dark undercurrent and themes that can capture one's mind long after reading.

But the blunt nature of this book left me wanting more. There's a difference between an author deciding to leave aspects of his work ambiguous and failing to explore certain characters, motifs, etc. The motives behind why characters would hurt one another or how some of their emotions escalated so quickly could have been further fleshed out.

I would recommend this to readers searching for an unusual gay love story with beautiful yet jagged writing. Save this one for later if you're searching for a happy ending - while it has nothing in common with sunshine or prancing unicorns, I promise that it'll make you think.

*review cross-posted on my blog, the quiet voice.

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Title	:	Dream Boy
Author	:	Jim Grimsley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 195 pages
Published	:	January 30th 1997 by Touchstone Books (first published 1995)
Categories	:	LGBT. Fiction. Gay. Romance. Young Adult

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Ratings: 3.92 From 4146 Users | 335 Reviews

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I am still under impression of this book. Since the moment I read the last page I have thought about it all the time. You will find a lot of reviews on this book here, both negative and positive. And I agree with both. As for me, I liked this book. Really liked. And you shouldn't believe reviewers that the book is worth of reading or it isn't. Just read it yourself and decide.(view spoiler)[ The only thing in this book that left me uncertain if I liked this part or if I didn't is the ending. I

Such a brilliant gay fiction book. This was my first gay romance book or gay fiction book, whichever you prefer to call it. I fell in love with it the second I started reading it. It didn't take me very long to read it, because I couldn't put it down, but partly because it was very short, too. It was a very quick read. And I also read it on my 15th birthday, which isn't really relevant... but anyway.Jim Grimsley did an amazing job with Nathan. He was a shy boy, but he had something inside. It

Wow, I don't know what to make of this. I heard about it on NPR; the commentator, a gay man, said he wished he had had this book when he was a teenager, because it would have told him he was not alone. That seemed a good reason to read it.Dream Boy follows Nathan, a bright, delicate 15-year-old-boy, as he falls into a dreamlike courtship with Roy, an older, popular boy at Nathan's new school. Though the sex never feels prurient, the novel is unrelentingly sexual. I started to wonder if there was

Jim Grimsley's wonderful book is conceived of facts and dreams.Its facts are disturbing and painful - Nathan's abusive father, Burke's violent acts, the brutality of the very environment surrounding Nathan and Roy - conjure up a setting where even the cracking of a floorboard or a light under a door could indicate the onset of violence and abuse. But there are also dreams in Nathan's small world: his encounters with Roy (despite Roy's demand that they remain a secret) are infused with

Just finished it and am trying to determine what I think. As an atheist bordering the agnostic I am not one for Bible-reading and hymn-singing and so forth. So I cannot read the ending in a religious context. But what remains then? If I say it is about love between Nathan and Roy, then I get the ending (even though it can be seen as over the top, too faitytale-ish or whatever). I get it nonetheless. I am highly disturbed by the whole plot because the writing gets to you. It seems to be clinical,

What the hell did I just read?I remember seeing the movie based on this book a few years ago. I didnt recall much from the movie other than a kid drives a school bus? The storys subject is dark and disturbing. Abusive alcoholic father and weak Jesus-loving mom, the perfect parents for Nathan. The first 80% of the book is setting the stage for the mysterious final 20%. I feel a bit shallow because I just didnt get it. Just shy of 200 pages helps the story move along, but I still felt like I

Dream Boy is a good beginnng for a novel. It's a decent outline. But aside from an intriguing writing style, this book fails if only because there is no ending. Actually, I felt extremely cheated and angry that the author would do such a thing. First he manipulates us ruthlessly and plays on our emotions and for what? To give us a book with no ending? Either suggested ending is an unbelieveably trite. The author should be ashamed of himself. Worn out plot, brutal enough to make reading