The Boys of Swithins Hall

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Summary: Pure Trash
Review: I bought this book based on customer reviews. They must have been reviewed by dirty old men. This book had no story whatsoever. It was just one sex scene after another. Every male character in this book was gay. I kept waiting for a story to develop, but the main character just went from one sex partner to another, from one different location to another. I drew the line when sex involved 12 year old boys. This book is pure trash.

Rating:
Summary: Pure Trash
Review: I bought this book based on customer reviews. They must have been reviewed by dirty old men. This book had no story whatsoever. It was just one sex scene after another. Every male character in this book was gay. I kept waiting for a story to develop, but the main character just went from one sex partner to another, from one different location to another. I drew the line when sex involved 12 year old boys. This book is pure trash.

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Summary: Memories are made of this!
Review: The Boys of Swithins Hall is close to being a great read, but I would warn folks who don't like their sex young and graphic to steer well away from it. Having survived/enjoyed 13 years of English boarding school life myself, I can testify to the accuracy of Kent's account - minus the sex! which was never quite as hot at my school. If you can get past the sex, presuming you want to, there's a brilliant read in there - but, my goodness, it is graphic. I'd like to see Chris Kent attempt something on the same lines, minus the sex. He would then get the wider public he deserves. When is his next novel due?

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Summary: A Beautiful Country
Review: This is a beautiful book. The only pity might be that the sex scenes are so graphic that they detract from the quality of the writing and the soundness of the plotting and the characters. It is also a page-turner, even if you have to turn the pages one-handed! I found myself identifying with the lead-character despite his infuriating ambivalence, and there were times when I found myself whispering if not shouting: "Oh, just get on with it and do it!" The novel is intensely funny though the mixture of the comic and the sadness sometimes made my gasp as the tone switched as quickly as life itself does. A great read - though it's time we had a new Chris Kent novel. The pages of my copy are already too well-thumbed and sticky!

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Summary: wow!
Review: This was a saucy book to say the least. I found myself breathless during his descriptions of adolescent discovery! A good book to read when your s.o. is out of town!