I read a book called "Tommy's Tale" by Alan Cummings last week. It was a great book and I really liked the blurb on the jacket (Kudos to some poor underpaid copywriter) so I thought I would post it and then some comments of my own. Okay fasten seatbelts!
"Tommy is twenty-nine lives and loves in London, and has a morbid fear of the c word- commitment, the b word- boyfriend, and the f word- forgetting to call his drug dealer before the weekend. But, when he starts to feel the urge to become a father, he starts to wonder if his chosen lifestyle can ever make him happy. His flatmates, the eccentric, maternal Sadie and the stoic, supportive Bobby, encourage Tommy to tone down his lifestyle a we bit and accept the fact that he's got to grow up sometime. Charlie(whose son Finn, is the epitome of childhood charm), wishes Tommy could make a real commitment to their relationship. But can he?
Faced with the choice of maintaining his hedonistic, drugged out and admittedly fabulous exisence or chucking it all in favor of a far more sensitive, fulfilling and - let's face it - slightly staid lifestyle, Tommy finds himself in a true quandry. Though a series of adventures and misadventures that lead him from London nightspots to New York bedrooms and back, our boy Tommy manages to answer some of lifes's most pressing questions- and even some he's never thought to ask.
Perfectly pitched, with scathing witticisms and deadpan observations, Tommy's Tale is a rollicking, tongue-in-cheek opus of absolute debauchery and reluctant redemption thats not to be missed."
Okay my comments: I loved it! I laughed my butt off reading it. The drug use and sexual content make it a definate NC-17 rating. There are some drop dead funny moments in it and I really loved the "fairy tale about risk" it was poignant and I admittedly teared up. There were a couple places at the end that made me if not cry at least sniffle. I highly recommend it.
BOOK REVIEW by KRIS