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What books are you most interested in having me review?

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Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle. A closeted screenwriter is ordered to kill his lesbian characters, and gets pursued by monsters he wrote.
59 (64.1%)

Camp Damascus, Chuck Tingle. Camp Damascus is a gay conversion camp with a 100% success rate. Rose, a young true believer, finds out why.
54 (58.7%)

No Apparent Danger, Victoria Bruce. Nonfiction about two deadly volcanic eruptions in Columbia.
18 (19.6%)

Black River Orchard, Chuck Wendig. An orchard produces sinister, irresistible apples.
21 (22.8%)

The Fisherman, John Langan. A fishing tall tale turned very sinister.
11 (12.0%)

Fantasticland, by Mike Bockoven. Lord of the Flies in an amusement park during a hurricane.
5 (5.4%)

Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood: Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: WWI
18 (19.6%)

The Return, Rachel Harrison. A vanished friend comes back wrong.
16 (17.4%)

All That's Left in the World, Erik J. Brown. Two teenagers - one gay, one ? - after the apocalypse.
13 (14.1%)

A book you would like me to review that you will suggest in comments.
1 (1.1%)



Have you read any of these? What did you think?
florianschild: A close-up of Daria from the animated cartoon show. Her glasses show an animated reflection of burning flames (Default)

From: [personal profile] florianschild


I’ve never heard of any of these! I’m not much of a thriller reader, but I like post-apocalyptic so I went for that.

Have you read The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley? I know you’re a fan of The Rifter and there are some interesting parallels!
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From: [personal profile] yuuago


I've read Camp Damascus and enjoyed it a lot more than I expected (had assumed the subject matter would put me off, but it didn't.)
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From: [personal profile] owlectomy


I attempted to read Black River Orchard and couldn't get into it - curious if I should give it another try!
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From: [personal profile] profiterole_reads


Big fan of Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays. I have also read and enjoyed Chuck Tingle's Trans Wizard Harriet Porber.
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From: [personal profile] elisem


Reading Camp Damascus was a revelation in ways I cannot mention without being spoilery. I grew up fundamentalist, and was trepidatious about reading it, and am so glad I did.
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From: [personal profile] katherine


Entirely unrelated to your list in the poll...
A book you would like me to review that you will suggest in comments.
Ice Dogs by Terry Lynn Johnson
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From: [personal profile] slightweasel


I just started Camp Damascus last night! My first Tingle, haha. I like it a lot so far! And I have Bury Your Gays on hold from the library.
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From: [personal profile] daidoji_gisei


I am sad that there are not more volcano fans.
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From: [personal profile] gwynnega


I liked Black River Orchard a lot. The Return is probably my least favorite Rachel Harrison novel, but I still enjoyed it.
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From: [personal profile] larryhammer


Of all those, I've read only the Nathan Hale (the Tingles are still in my TBR stash). I thought it an excellent summary, excellently pitched to its audience, of how fucked up that war was. All war is fucked up, but that was way more fucked than people expected and it traumatized a couple generations.

The images of Ares' progression over the years still haunts me.
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