Cutting the Cheese [Kindle Edition]

Edward C. Patterson (Author)

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Product Description

Luke Oliver has just come out of the closet and confronts a brave new world - a meeting of the Gay and Lesbian Activist Association of New Birch and Sipsboro (GLAABS) - your run of the mill, gay political caucus. Run of the Mill? . . . my @$$. Stepping across the threshold of the Otterson estate exposes Luke to horny and hilarious shenanigans that give the Boys in the Band a run for its money. Who wants whom? Who has whom? Who will win Luke's . . . let's say, attentions?

A self-effacing, comic romp through the Gay hierarchy, Cutting the Cheese is a reality check from the author's provocative coming out experience in a drizzled-pink world If your funny bone needs tickling and you don’t mind seeing yourself in the mirror, pick up your knife and join the Cheddar Brigade — only, watch how you slice and dice it. This gang is fussy about size. It's every one for themself in New Birch's Gay Ghetto. To Hell with Robert's Rules of Order.

This is a full revision for 2010.

About the Author

Edward C. Patterson has been writing novels, short fiction, poetry and drama his entire life, always seeking the emotional core of any story he tells. With his eighth novel, The Jade Owl, he combines an imaginative touch with his life long devotion to China and its history. He has earned an MA in Chinese History from Brooklyn College with further post graduate work at Columbia University. A native of Brooklyn, NY, he has spent four decades as a soldier in the corporate world gaining insight into the human condition. He won the 1999 New Jersey Minority Achievement Award for his work in corporate diversity. Blending world travel experiences with a passion for story telling, his adventures continue as he works to permeate his reader's souls from an indelible wellspring.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 224 KB
• Print Length: 124 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1434893847
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: CreateSpace; 3 edition (November 18, 2007)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0010K2ER6
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #308,293 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Edward C. Patterson has been writing novels, short fiction, poetry and drama his entire life, always seeking the emotional core of any story he tells. With his eighth novel, The Jade Owl, he combines an imaginative touch with his life long devotion to China and its history. He has earned an MA in Chinese History from Brooklyn College with further post graduate work at Columbia University. Born in 1947, a native of Brooklyn, NY, he has spent four decades as a soldier in the corporate world gaining insight into the human condition. He won the 1999 New Jersey Minority Achievement Award for his work in corporate diversity. Blending world travel experiences with a passion for story telling, his adventures continue as he works to permeate his reader's souls from an indelible wellspring.

His novel No Irish Need Apply was named Book of the Month for June 2009 by Booz Allen Hamilton's Diversity Reading Organization. His Novel The Jade Owl was a finalist for The 2009 Rainbow Awards.

The 18 published books by Edward C. Patterson include No Irish Need Apply, Bobby's Trace, Cutting the Cheese, Surviving an American Gulag, Turning Idolater, Look Away Silence, The Jade Owl (Jade Owl Legacy Series Book I), The Third Peregrination (Jade Owl Legacy Series Book II), The Dragon's Pool (Jade Owl Legacy Series Book III), The People's Treasure (Jade Owl Legacy Series Book IV), Southern Swallow Series (Book I - The Academician, Book II - The Nan Tu, Book III - Swan Cloud), Oh, Dainty Triolet, The Road to Grafenwöhr, Come, Wewoka, The Closet Clandestine and Are You Still Submitting Your Work to a Traditonal Publisher?

Coming soon: Southern Swallow Series (Book IV - The House of Green Waters and Book V - Vagrants Hollow), In the Shadow of Her Hem (Jade Owl Legacy Series Book V), Pacific Crimson - Forget Me Not, Belmundus, A Reader's Guide to Author's Jargon and Other Ravings from the Blogosphere, Dearest Flower of My Heart - Mail Call from Two Generations and Green Folly.

Edward C. Patterson is the proud founder of Operation eBook Drop, a member of Kindleboards, Publetariat, The Independant Author's Guild, The Gay & lesbian Writers and Readers Group. He is a Veteran, US Army 1966-68 and a member of Veteran's Historic Archive Roundtable (Lehigh Valley). He has guest blogged extensively and has appeared on the Bobby Ozuna - Soul of Humanity Show.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Double Snap!, July 15, 2008

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Thomas Riccobuono (Cottonwood, AZ) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Cutting The Cheese (Paperback)

Every character in this twisted little comedy may seem like a stereotype, but stereotypes exist for a reason. I have personally met people in my life who are exactly like these characters. I have no trouble envisioning them acting in just this way.
This is one nail-biting, back-stabbing, hair-pulling thrill of a ride. With the sweetest of love stories set right in the middle.
I laughed so hard, I felt guilty, because I felt like I was laughing at myself and some of my closest friends.
Cheese and wine will never be the same again.
I give this naughty little treat two over-the-head snaps!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Coming Out Can Be Gouda, February 28, 2009

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Todd A. Fonseca (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cutting The Cheese (Paperback)

Uncertain, confused, and feeling lost after coming out, Luke Oliver searches for answers to this new world in which he now belongs. Finding the bar scene full of too many unspoken rules and regulations unknown to a newbie, Luke suddenly finds himself invited to the ostentatious home of one Roy Otterson where a meeting of a local gay and lesbian activist group is to take place. Intimidated by not only the grandeur of the home but by it's occupants, Luke quickly finds himself relegated to the kitchen drafted to the "cheese brigade" where houseboy Kelly Rodriguez and live-in playwright Mortimer demonstrate the proper size and shape for the cheese cubes to be served during the meeting.

One by one, members of this illustrious activist group arrive at the meeting quickly turned party and Luke begins to wonder if perhaps this lifestyle is for him. But then Branch McPherson arrives whom Luke has admired from afar. Unfortunately, Luke has invited a date and when Charles (Chaz) Remsen arrives, his personality lights up the party more than the time square crystal ball on new years eve.

Edward C Patterson offers a hilarious and engaging look into the challenges and opportunities one faces when coming out. Each of Patterson's characters are carefully crafted and I enjoyed meeting each one and seeing how their hopes, fears, desires, and manias would play out as the ever building collision course of personalities, hormones, jealousies, agendas, and love climaxed at the novel's conclusion.

As I read Cutting the Cheese, I couldn't help but be reminded of The Birdcage though Patterson's characters are more engaging and entertaining than the best Nathan Lane produced on the big screen. Patterson's humor and cadence are spot-on throughout. For cheese lovers, Patterson offers no less than twenty-eight different cheeses as titles for each of his chapters - enjoy!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Plenty of cheese to keep the reader crack-ing up!, May 19, 2009

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J.R. Reardon "J.R. Reardon, author of Confide... (Boston, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cutting The Cheese (Paperback)

I have to agree with other reviews....Edward C. Patterson's CUTTING THE CHEESE, a lighthearted look at Luke Oliver, a shy man who has just come out of the closet and attends a Gay and Lesbian Activist Association meeting/dinner party, could easily be adapted into a stage play.

Patterson's cleverness and sharp wit shines in this fast paced novel. There is plenty of cheese to keep the reader crack-ing up!

J.R. Reardon
author, CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS