Love Notes to Men Who Don't Read edition by North Morgan Literature Fiction eBooks
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Between London and Los Angeles, the gym and the gay scene, Instagram and Grindr, what it means to be a gay man has never been so bisected. North Morgan’s third novel moves beyond the confines of fiction to examine how homosexuality’s acceptance into society has created a new breed of demons for a generation of men born as outsiders yet living at the forefront of popular culture.
Heartbreaking but never far from humour, Love Notes to Men Who Don’t Read confirms Morgan’s place as the leading interpreter of gay culture on either side of the Atlantic.
Love Notes to Men Who Don't Read edition by North Morgan Literature Fiction eBooks
North Morgan’s third novel, Love Notes to Men Who Don’t Read, is both the successor to and a departure from his previous efforts. The acidic malcontent wit is still well represented, but for this book Morgan chose a more comfortable setting that brings Notes a visceral resonance his previous work has lacked.You might recognize yourself in it, but probably not because those guys only read macros. You’re more likely to recognize the hot wealthy guys that you pity/envy from a distance. Or, you’ll recognize none of them but get a true to life glimpse into a subculture of a subculture that is not only accurate, but highly entertaining. Notes has something for everyone!
It’s a fun readable book that I blew through in day. Konrad’s chats with his friends are hilarious; his dates are absurd. He makes terrible choices again and again. The train wreck is super fun to watch. As an entertainment piece it stands well on its own and it’s a joy to read.
For me, Notes feels like an update to Holleran’s pioneering 1978 gay novel Dancer from the Dance: A Novel. It replaces the clubs and the tubs with cruising Grindr and endless group texts. Searching for love and finding none Konrad and his crew remind me of the dear handsome forlorn Malone – perfect and alone.
Don’t be fooled, this isn’t just shirtless slut fluff. There are actual meaningful ideas that are probed if you take the time to notice. Gay masculinity, and its ultimate expression through our collective bro obsession, is dissected to the bone. You’ll find yourself thinking about how gay culture fetishizes masculinity and how that can be, by turns, incredibly hot and incredibly destructive. Konrad and his beaus show us how heteronormative masculine role modeling shapes our behavior and reactions (or lack thereof) in relationships. Morgan lampoons these notions and reminds us that recognizing these cultural constructs is the first step to overcoming them. He lifts the hood on curating a social media presence and how it has transformed into an electronic Kabuki in which we all take part. There’s a lot more to Notes than just supersets, supplements, snorting ketamine, and sleeping around.
If you liked Morgan’s last two novels, buy this book, you won’t be disappointed. If you’re a gay dude who didn’t like them, give Notes a try, it’s eerily relatable.
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Love Notes to Men Who Don't Read edition by North Morgan Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This book had the uncomfortable capability to peer into my soul regularly. I immediately identified with Konrad, the main character, from the intro on. It's a great insight into gay culture and the way it can be both isolating and thrilling. Highly recommend.
The 2010s version of Less Than Zero, it's the story of an aimlessly led life controlled by Grindr and similar apps.
If there is any justice this novel should be a great success. It works on so many levels - engaging, funny and entertaining - while making some pointed observations on the universal quest for connection and meaning through the unlikely medium of gay gym culture. Laugh out loud funny and, ultimately, poignant and thought-provoking. Can't recommend it more highly.
We all know the people that populate this novel. If you liked London Preppy back in the day, you'll enjoy this book. The voice is unmistakable.
One thing, it could do with a decent proofread. The sloppiness of the number of small mistakes and typos gets really annoying at some point (I'm not talking about the deliberate ones).
Other than that, a very enjoyable read, indeed.
Much like in the posts that comprised the London Preppy blog, Love Notes is both instantly relatable, completely foreign, incredibly funny, and thoroughly depressing throughout. North has a way of writing that, although it may be similar to other contemporary writers, is completely his own. His ability to observe others and write spot-on commentary that is both scathing and witty really sets him apart. That commentary is not just reserved for others, there is is just as much, if not more, pointed at the main character. Love Notes is truly enjoyable read and one that you won't be able to put down until the end.
This novel is North Morgan's best yet. There's a honesty to his story that is definitely very palpable and the writing comes across as effortless and well paced.
The story is quite simple the daily life, joys and tribulations of a gay man in this post social-media, internet-hookup-dating world. And yet in its simplicity is what lies the brilliance of his writing.
While describing the "life in the bubble of the extraordinarily good looking" and his character's "fetish for arctic blue eyes", Morgan paints a very accurate, funny and at at same time painful picture of gay life in any big metropolitan hub. The hilarious and outrageous anecdotes are the way in for an ongoing internal monologue that reflect a conflict between external societal pressures to fit in and the desire to adapt gay culture to straight norms.
And if sex, drugs and self-absorption are the immediate and more glittering allures of this novel, there is a deeper and more introspective lens that transpires and that shows a caustic and thoughtful self-awareness and the ability to describe the human condition.
This is a great read and one that will leave you wanting for more!
Written in a riveting level-with-you tone of voice, this great little book is organized into a series of very short chapters that in the first half of the book establishes the force of a gay sub culture’s duplicity. The second half entertainingly explores the futility of it with a repetitively existentialist edge. Each chapter exposes us to another episode of a broken person that keeps getting more and more broken and somehow never gets jaded. More Camus than Kafka (cause it’s all kind of sexy) the main character is trapped by hope and paralyzed by his attractions. Camus said it best “Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.” A blast to read. Click that little button up there and buy it now.
North Morgan’s third novel, Love Notes to Men Who Don’t Read, is both the successor to and a departure from his previous efforts. The acidic malcontent wit is still well represented, but for this book Morgan chose a more comfortable setting that brings Notes a visceral resonance his previous work has lacked.
You might recognize yourself in it, but probably not because those guys only read macros. You’re more likely to recognize the hot wealthy guys that you pity/envy from a distance. Or, you’ll recognize none of them but get a true to life glimpse into a subculture of a subculture that is not only accurate, but highly entertaining. Notes has something for everyone!
It’s a fun readable book that I blew through in day. Konrad’s chats with his friends are hilarious; his dates are absurd. He makes terrible choices again and again. The train wreck is super fun to watch. As an entertainment piece it stands well on its own and it’s a joy to read.
For me, Notes feels like an update to Holleran’s pioneering 1978 gay novel Dancer from the Dance A Novel. It replaces the clubs and the tubs with cruising Grindr and endless group texts. Searching for love and finding none Konrad and his crew remind me of the dear handsome forlorn Malone – perfect and alone.
Don’t be fooled, this isn’t just shirtless slut fluff. There are actual meaningful ideas that are probed if you take the time to notice. Gay masculinity, and its ultimate expression through our collective bro obsession, is dissected to the bone. You’ll find yourself thinking about how gay culture fetishizes masculinity and how that can be, by turns, incredibly hot and incredibly destructive. Konrad and his beaus show us how heteronormative masculine role modeling shapes our behavior and reactions (or lack thereof) in relationships. Morgan lampoons these notions and reminds us that recognizing these cultural constructs is the first step to overcoming them. He lifts the hood on curating a social media presence and how it has transformed into an electronic Kabuki in which we all take part. There’s a lot more to Notes than just supersets, supplements, snorting ketamine, and sleeping around.
If you liked Morgan’s last two novels, buy this book, you won’t be disappointed. If you’re a gay dude who didn’t like them, give Notes a try, it’s eerily relatable.
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