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Comments for How Long Has This Been Going On?
How Long Has This Been Going On?: 01/08/07
What Lassie? Timmy's trapped down the well and he's gay? That's what it felt like to read How Long Has This Been Going On? It is supposedly a well written epic of modern American gay history but it certainly has high reviews on Amazon.com but I found it annoying at worst and laughable at best.
The book covers from the end of World War Two through the mid 1990s. A lot happened in that time but I spent so much time rolling my eyes at the characters that I couldn't take the important parts seriously. The story is told in two main ways: in the form of dialogue between a naive character and a his (or her) older lover who has to stop and explain everything.
The second way the story is told is through the overly chatty omniscient narrator. I wanted to slap some duct tape on the narrator's mouth to get him to shut up long enough for the story to actually get somewhere. Some authors can pull off this sort of chit-chat approach to story telling (Christopher Moore and Armistad Maupin for example): Mordden can't. My four-year-old is better at telling this style of story, for goodness sakes!
Harriet Talks Too Much:
After a couple nights without sleep, Ian and I were in serious need of a full night's sleep. We ended up sleeping until the clock radio went off at 6:50 (the first time in ages we've slept so long). When the alarm went off we heard Harriet "talking" as she does in the morning. We quickly got her up, changed and taken upstairs to nurse but Sean's glower suggested that Harriet had been up at her usual time and we just hadn't heard her.
Sean complained that Harriet had been up "talking since the middle of the night" and that she "talks too loud." He also said that Harriet should either "sleep upstairs or in Mama and Daddy's room" so that Sean could sleep without her waking up. We politely told him "no" but did give him the option of coming into our room to wake us up the next time we sleep through Harriet's early morning talking.
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