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Play Buddies

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I really liked Bob Vickery's earlier books, and "Play Buddies" is at least as good. Vickery writes stories that are really hot, original, with actual plots and well-rounded characters. When Vickery gets steamy, no one get beat him, and he's also just a damn good story teller. I enjoyed "Play Buddies" a lot, and I think most lovers of gay erotica will get a big kick out of Vickery's latest effort.

I'm a big fan of Vickery's ever since I read his previous book, Cocksure. I have to say that as good as Cocksure was, Play Buddies is even better! Not only are his stories hot, Vickery writes with real humanity, making his characters come across as real and three dimensional, out on the prowl, looking for sex wherever they can find it. As far as erotic writing goes, Vickery is a master!

Vickery is certainly the best multi-dimensional male erotic fiction writer today. He is the Anne Rice of [homosexual] male porn.But even more, the humanity and spirituality of his characters [comes] through clearly - their pain, their joy, their search, their honesty, the lies, the hopes, the hot , out-of-control passion - everything else human. I was moved to tears, and compassion, and much, much more. Hot, hot, hot.

The towering strength of Bob Vickery is that he is at the event horizon of taking homoerotic literature-and this is literature-into main stream fiction. One cannot read "Calcutta" or "Elephant Men" without sensing how deeply Mr. Vickery cares about the characters who populate them. Is it sexy, whoo boy, but made more so by the humanity of the people. From Enid, Oklahoma to the inevitable San Francisco he finds his people and gives them to us as the sexual, lusting beings that they are. But he never forgets that they, like us, are humans. They are burnished with an affectionate wink at the reader that says, "now wouldn't you like to be doing this too?" I certainly would. Darned if I don't take up following glass installers with red hair.

I'm not gay or male but I do enjoy Bob Vickery. His stories always gets my juices flowing. I will definitely read more from him.