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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Aussie Boys Are the Best!, May 12, 2006
"Aussie Boys" is Rusty Winter's collection of homoerotic stories (including a novella) of a similar sort published in 1987 prior to his even finer colllection of short stories of a similar sort published the following year (1988) under the title, "Aussie Hot". (Each of these has had subsequent printings.) Both collections are remarkable for their literary quality, something that, alas, one encounters less often than sexually explicit and arousing prose in gay erotic literature; Rusty Winter has both writing quality and sexually titillating abilities in spades!
The characters and circumstances in these stories, as in Winter's later volume, are piquant, highly atmospheric, and sexually highly charged, without, for the most part, being vulgar or stereotyped. The exceptions are stories involving Australian surfers (again, as in Winter's "Aussie Hot", fortunately, in the minority in this volume too), which have less originality and too much type-casted plot and character depiction, but even they are better than most gay surfer fiction. The stories have lots of variety, and their Australian setting, vocabulary (dialect, slang, lilt) will charm readers in the U. S. of A., as well as the U.K. and other parts of the Commonwealth. One assumes that Australians themselves may need less urging to read this to satisfy their gay and notoriously man-sized Aussie sexual urges!
The novella included, on pages [7]-91, titled "Lyndhurst Downs", is particularly beautifully crafted, capturing well the Australian rural setting, its rugged vegetation and terrain, as well as the characters, physiques, and speech (and, of couse, fornicating) habits of the protagonists, the chief of whom is a randy lad in his mid-teens with a taste for multi-orgasmic sex with his wealthy father's hired hands, most of this teen's lovers being only a few post-adolescent years older than he is. There is also, to droll effect, a smarmily libidinous (under his starchy but thin veneer of hypocritically clerical, social-climbing respectability) Methodist preacher-man, who, for all his outward show of piety that is part and parcel of his lofty ministerial calling, is equally handsome in the lean and brawny prime of life (with attendant, unquenchable sexual appetite, ephebophilically channelled, in his case!), and who is, of course, utterly, enthusiastically, potently, pederastically boy-loving. Although long in comparison to the short stories, this novella is sufficiently episodic that one can enjoy it over several nights, keeping it at one's bedside for one's own and/or one's partner's self- or mutual-arousal.
Highly recommended; however, buy Rusty Winter's "Aussie Hot" first, especially if the reader's funds are limited, since "Aussie Hot" is even more delightfully erotic, original, and often perversely comic than the similar and ever so entertaining "Aussie Boys" cargo of "tales of tail".
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