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Perfect Freedom

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...and I love every silly vulgar over-romantic page. Gordon Merrick was a schlock-meister of the highest order. All of his heroes are impossibly handsome, impossibly wealthy, and impossibly well-endowed. "Perfect Freedom" is one of the more outrageous books Merrick wrote, and a great trashy read. Be sure to read the sequel, entitled "The Great Urge Downward."

Gordon Merrick has created with his novel "Perfect Freedom" one of the best gay novels to date. It is a wonderfull story about the Cosling family i.c. Stuart, Helene and their son Robbie. Merrick describes their climb and struggle to fortune, their wealthy life-style during the 30's at St-Tropez and the Greek Islands and their downfall at the beginning of WWII. During the reading of the book, the Coslings will become a real family to the reader. You will laugh, cry, party, make love with them and finally participate in the downfall with such an intensity that when you have reached the last page your head is spinning from all the emotions you have endured. At end you will realise that, whatever happens, life will go on! St-Tropez will never look the same the next time you may visit it! Highly recommended.

"They were the fabulous coslings of St.Tropez: dapper American expatriate Stuart Cosling; his ravishing French wife, Helene; and their stunningly handsome son, Robbie. To his parents, Robbie was still a boy--until on a cruise of the Greek islands, he discovered the pleasures of manhood with a deckhand on his father's yacht."--© zebraz

Great read! Anything by Gordon Merrick is always good! I also recommend THE LORD WON'T MIND and ONE FOR THE GODS

Growing up, I adored locking myself away with a good, trashy Jackie Collins or Judith Krantz novel. I love larger-than-life drama and tales of rags-to-riches or hags-to-bitches as some cases may be. So when I found Gordon Merrick's PERFECT FREEDOM I was in heaven. Interwoven through the story of the rise and fall of the sunkissed Mediterranean-based Cosling family is the story of their gorgeous son Robbie and his sexual awakening as a young gay man. Trashy, romantic, melodramatic, scandalous, wonderful!

This was my first summer read back in the early 80's. I accidently picked up this book and was mesmerized by the character of Robbie. It is pretty much a fluff gay reading but if you're looking for a romantic novel and an easy read, this is your book.
Characters are hot and the interaction is great.

This is a great read. Fast paced with lots of the good stuff!

I have been told Gordon Merrick is a really good writer. I agree to a certain extent because the author successfully injected sensuality and descriptive scenery into this book.

The pace of the book, on the other hand, was slow and at various times, I lost interest in continue my reading because the plot repeated itself and it therfore became predictable. The pace quickened a bit in the last few chapters and the plot thickened, it was only then readers felt more eager to find out what happened to the son, the mother, the lover and the father. Unfortunately, it's a bit too late to rescue the whole book because readers had been bored to tears before they could read to the end.

Had the author cut out a few chapters and held the storyline tighter, it would have been a perfect read. There was so much potential to this book, I wish it could be better so that I would keep this book for a second read.