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Young Cruisers

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By the time I got around to this book, it's U.S.A. edition wasalready out-of-print. Luckily, I found an available copy onamazon.co.uk. I'm glad I made the extra effort! In that, at least for me, there's something close to home about this anthology of short stories, linked by the common denominator of a particular city park (possibly as close to home as the park just down the street from where I live, where I witnessed and participated in a good deal of the very same "stuff" that goes down in the short stories of this Cort Forbes' anthology). If the majority of these stories are high on sexual content, lower on plot, there are those of us who sometimes like stories that provide just that. (For those who want more plot, as well as hot and steamy sex, check out anything by William Maltese, including his latest mainstream mystery novel, A SLIP TO DIE FOR). I think the enjoyability of Cort Forbes' short stories in YOUNG CRUISERS can best be summed up by the fact I presented at the very beginning of this review: all available U.S.A. copies having long since been grabbed up off the shelves...

I found Young Cruisers, banal, a travesty of the English language. The stories are totally predictable, the English terrible, a total lack of grammer and syntax.

The book does nothing for the causes of homosexuality, it is raw sex in its most basic form. Each of these stories has the capability to be turned into something more beautiful, but instead is left like graffiti on a toilet wall. If there was a zero star rating, that would get my vote.

I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to my freinds. It was written with thought and the story flowed from point to point. I should like to see more books available.