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mysid ([personal profile] mysid) wrote2006-09-22 02:01 pm
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Rec: Good Boy

If you love (a) The Charioteer, (b) dogs, or (c) romantic slash, you must go read Good Boy by [livejournal.com profile] trueriver. Everything she writes is wonderful, of course, but this one just struck me as one I should point my friends' list toward. You don't have to have read The Charioteer to enjoy this one--although it would certainly help.
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[identity profile] secretsolitaire.livejournal.com 2006-09-22 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, this was cute (although now I wish I'd read The Charioteer). Thanks for the rec!

[identity profile] mysid.livejournal.com 2006-09-22 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Mwahahaha--my secret plan to convince more people to read The Charioteer has been revealed!

[identity profile] secretsolitaire.livejournal.com 2006-09-22 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
What's it about? Why should I read it? I'm always up for book recs. :-)

[identity profile] mysid.livejournal.com 2006-09-23 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
The Charioteer is set in England during WWII. The main character, Laurie "Spud" Odell, is a wounded soldier recuperating in a military hospital.

While there, he falls in love with an orderly (a Quaker conscientious objector) named Andrew. Then, quite by accident, Laurie runs into an old schoolmate, Ralph Lanyon. Ralph isn't just any schoolmate. Laurie's schoolboy crush on the slightly older Lanyon was the reason he'd first figured out that he was "queer." It isn't long before Laurie's feelings for Ralph return.

Laurie is faced with a choice between the two men he loves, and in choosing between them, he's choosing who he wants to be, what sort of man he will become.

If you do read it, let me warn you: most people find the first chapter dead boring. The story doesn't really get going until Chapter Two.

Here (http://dannyreviews.com/h/The_Charioteer.html) and here (http://www1.epinions.com/content_101906943620) are two reviews you might want to read.

[identity profile] secretsolitaire.livejournal.com 2006-09-23 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, this sounds *really* good! Looks like my local library system doesn't have it :-(, but maybe I can find a used copy online for cheap.

Is this the story that you mention in one of your R/S (or pre-R/S, I think) fics?

[identity profile] mysid.livejournal.com 2006-09-24 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, in A Gift of Understanding (http://mysid.livejournal.com/13817.html#cutid1).
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