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Summary: Doubts but all changes
Review: I am 13.
My friend told me about this book and it sound funny from the way she said things about it and it sorta sounded dumb. Well I found the book so I bought it and in about 4 days I finished it. It was one of the best books I have read in awhile and I am reading the second one now. You see the emotion's from each boys veiw and how hard it is going through life each day. Kyle, who is a swimmer, has a huge crush on Jason.
Jason is your school jock with a girlfriend he thinks he loves and begings to questiong if he really loves her.
Nelson is a guy still trying to find out who he is and looking for love, and always supporting his best friend Kyle!
Slowly their lives blend toghter and they become closer and closer.
It is so hard to put this book down and its even harder not to want to know more! You ask question and slowly but surely they get answered and you beging to feel for each character. I highly recomend this book to anyone! Boy or Girl, Straight or Gay, Hey I am a Girl and I enjoyed it!
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Summary: "Boys" - Oh boy!
Review: I went the mall last week, looking for a certain book. I found it, but also came across "Rainbow Boys" while searching for it. It sounded interesting, so I bought it. I was ANYTHING but disappointed!"Rainbow Boys" is the story of 3 high school seniors: Kyle, Jason, and Nelson. Of of them is facing issues with their sexuality. Kyle is struggling with whether or not to come out to his parents, and over his feelings for school jock Jason. Jason is starting to realize that he just might be bisexual, and struggles with trying to reconcile his feelings toward Kyle and his feelings towards his girlfriend, Debra. Nelson ("Nelly") is out and proud, but is also struggling with the fact that he may have feelings for his best friend Kyle. Reading the book, you can see that everything these 3 boys encounter is something that could have happend to you. All their struggles are true-to-life, and the book is very engaging. I could not put it down once I started reading it, an urge I rarely get. I would recommend this book to anyone. Whether you are gay or straight, you will find something in this book that you can relate to.
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Summary: Simply Excellent
Review: This book is completely excellent. Being in high school, and gay, I wanted to read a book that I could relate to and know follow what was going on. Even though this book doesn't have all the steamy sex scenes that every gay guy seems to go for, I couldn't put it down. Rainbow Boys describes the struggles and trials of a jock, an "out" guy, and an outsider. Simply excellent and not to miss.
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Summary: Brilliant Love Story About Gay High School Seniors
Review: This is the best book I've read all year. Mr. Sanchez is truly a gifted writer and proved it with this debut work. I immediately fell in love with all three of his characters (okay, I mostly fell in love with Jason). The drama that Sanchez so beautifully built into this story had me teary-eyed at just about every other chapter. That's the kind of story I love the most: one that can make me feel exactly what the characters are feeling. What an amazing love story he portrayed, what with Jason struggling to come out, with Kyle trying his best to get Jason to love him, and Nelson trying to get Kyle to understand that he loves him. I'm so glad everything turned out on a positive note. In addition to the storyline, I really like Sanchez's writing style: the use of concise phrases, and some very witty ones as well, to convey a lot of information was right on target. I can't wait to read something else by this author.
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Summary: Gay teens in high school
Review: Sanchez's debut novel features three guys in high school as each deals with being gay, coming out, and other personal problems. Nelson is totally out at school and is often targeted for harassment from some of the students. His mom is in PFLAG, so his home life is okay, but Nelson can't tell his best friend Kyle how he truly feels for him. Kyle is slowly coming out of the closet, but the process is forced to speed up after his mom finds a porn magazine in his room. Luckily, his parents work toward being supportive of him. Kyle has always had a crush on Jason, one of the popular jocks at school. Jason has been dating the same girl for two years, and yet he's had these feelings for other guys. When he enlists Kyle to help him with schoolwork, Jason struggles to deal with what he's feeling for another guy, as well as dealing with an alcoholic father at home. This book is entirely filled with sappy and wish-fulfilling events and interactions that lend it an almost overly-sweet feel. Yet it's also entirely delightful. Reading "Rainbow Boys" is like looking back on high school and imagining the things that could have happened, all through rose-colored glasses. While the characters and the story do lack a certain depth, the book overall entertains and gives a hopeful glimpse into the future of high schools.
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Summary: The End of Innocence, not the End of Romance
Review: Alex Sanchez, a former school guidance counselor well-acquainted with the angst of gay youth, has written a novel target-marketed to young adults, and I recommend it enthusiastically for high school students, gay or straight. But "Rainbow Boys" has wider appeal than the youth market. As an adult nearing the top of the hill if not quite over it, I found it a real page turner. Read it yourself...and give it to younger brothers, nephews, and any boy or girl you know for birthdays, graduation-or just because they need to read it. The story is about Jason, Kyle, and Nelson ("Nellie" to school jocks) and the relationships they forge with each other. Jason is a basketball star-an athletic Adonis; girls adore him, boys idolize him. But he has a shaming secret: feelings he denies but can't ignore. He can't tell his parents, and he can't tell his girlfriend. And he can't get Kyle off his mind. Kyle-lithe, slight, and sweet-is on the swim team and can't get Jason off his mind, either. Confiding in his best friend, Nelson, who is Out to everyone, Kyle shyly but sure-footedly steps further out of the closet as the story progresses. Kyle's obsession with Jason and their secret developing romance bums out Nelson. He loves Kyle. Besides, Jason's buds always harass him. Jason fights it; Kyle indulges it; Nelson craves it. Tell it in the hallways, locker room, and cafeteria; in the boys' cars and bedrooms; and at the family dinner tables, mixing in discriminatory school politics, an abusive parent, a chat room pickup, some hot (and not-so-hot) dates leading to rumors, self-revelations, open declarations, and a gay-straight student alliance. The result is a story any sensitive kid can identify with and any gay adult will understand.... What could be more helpful to a maturing young man or woman than a compelling story facing the issues of bullying-from name calling to gay bashing; issues of sexual identity and coming out; drug and alcohol abuse; safe sex and AIDS; belonging and rejection; parents' reactions; and other self-destructive or self-affirming matters? As a bonus, Sanchez has included an annotated list of resources, with contact information, dealing with organizing a peer group; violence and hate crimes against gays and lesbians; issues with parents; HIV and AIDS; teen sexuality; gay and lesbian teen suicides; and gay and lesbian teen services on the Internet. "Rainbow Boys" is refreshing, about a time in our lives when sex was about relationships as well as release, about aching for someone more than for orgasm. Sex with caring. Love that's not exploitive. It says the end of innocence need not mean the end of romance, integrity, or goodness.
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Summary: You'll feel like "coming out" again and again...
Review: I extremely enjoyed this brilliant work. Being only fourteen, I could relate to all of the things the characters were going through. This book examines the struggles of the modern gay teen, the pressures from parents they experience, and the wonderful feelings of knowing that they're not alone in this world. I highly suggest this book to anyone regardless of their age, and to pick up a copy of the second book, "Rainbow High" as well. Alex Sanchez truly deserves to be named the modern Shakespeare!
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Summary: A Definite Winner
Review: Alex Sanchez's witty, realistic, and provocative look at gay teen sexuality is a definite winner!
The story follows the lives of three teenage boys during their final year of high school. Jason Carillo, "ultrajock" and Mr. Popularity has a girlfriend, and they've even had sex, so why does he sometimes think of other guys? Nelson Glassman is out and proud, a loud sarcastic mouth his only weakness against the gay bashers he confronts each and every day. And Kyle Meeks, Nelson's best friend, and lonely intellectual, harboring a secret crush on Jason since Freshman year.
In this fresh and startling novel, the experiences of the three intertwine and intersect, producing one of the best novels for gay teens in recent years. The book, however, resists being labeled as merely "gay fiction." This is a story of adolescence and high school, of love lost and love found. It is perhaps one of the most revealing glimpses of growing up, (gay or straight) that I've ever read.
And while dealing with such somber topics as HIV/AIDS, alcoholism, domestic violence/abuse, gay bashing, and ignorance and bigotry, Alex Sanchez never loses hope or lets the picture he paints become too bleak.
Inspirational and fun, quirky yet serious, Rainbow Boys won't soon be lost nor forgotten.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This is a well written book that would be good for especially gay young people to read. Also good for older people. A moving story one can identify with whether in or out. I had to order Rainbow High after reading this. I would buy a third book if there was one. My only complaint is that the publisher didn't bother to find 3 guys that looked like the guys in the book to put on the cover. It would have been nice to have proper pictures in one's mind as I got to know these young men. The books are kept clean which is good so that people can't complain about young people reading them. The books are so good, they don't need explicit ... descriptions.
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Summary: Best Book EVER!!!!!!
Review: I think the book was the bomb. The book was the bomb because of the of the way the book is put out. I am gay so really liked the book. The book is really like me and my friends. Jason, Nelson, and Kyle. All of the boys play a good part in the book. When I read the book I think that this is really going on witch it is that is why I like it. I thats all thank you.
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