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Forbidden Love with a Married Man: E-mail Diaries
written by Dennis Schleicher
Studio : AuthorHouse
by AuthorHouse
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Released : 2006-07-16
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9781425944261
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 36 reviews)
List Price : $19.95
Our Price : $10.99
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Forbidden Love with a Married Man; E-mail Diaries describes one couple's journey as they struggle with sexual identity and how it conflicts with right and wrong. More than 4 million women are currently or have been married to either a gay or bisexual man. Often the gay spouse feels forced by societal and family pressures into marriage, suppressing his true feelings in order to be socially accepted by appearing "straight." However, in secret these men cheat on their wives by conducting affairs with members of the same sex. This day-by-day memoir diary includes actual daily e-mails and correspondence between the author, Dennis Schleicher, and his 14-year married boyfriend. Will his boyfriend leave his wife and confess to her his love and desire to live with another man, or will he be trapped in his own insecurities and not move to a side of life he has kept hidden all of these years, risking the loss of his potential "soulmate"?Every married and single woman and male and/or those engaged in a relationship will learn the truth about two loving people who are highly challenged to reveal their innermost souls in order to "survive." |
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Waste of time and money |
Do not believe the fake reviews obviously submitted by the author and his friends. This book is a tremendous waste of time and money.
I picked it up because I have found myself in a similar situation and thought that I may learn from their experience. That might have been the case had the author written anything of substance. I thought I was getting a book that would detail an affair with a married man from inception through coming out and, eventually separation/divorce. Not so. This book is basically a collection of very mundane emails between a gay narcissist and his married boyfriend. The first email entry is dated January 22. The last entry is dated March 6 of the same year. A timespan of about six weeks. Not much is written about the real struggles of being in love with a married man. The emails shared are of little interest to anyone but the author.
It's telling that the author began writing his "book" less than two weeks into their relationship, before he even knew if there would be much of a story to tell. This makes the story entirely too self conscious. He constantly refers to the book and even tries to use it as a source of conflict in the story. Sadly, there is no story here to tell. How could there with six weeks of a relationship? The topics of most of the emails are incredibly mundane and the author is self-obsessed.
In short, this is the vanity project of a narcissist, interesting to no one other than the author and a few of his friends. |
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This read was a waste of time and energy |
If I had a better idea of what I was getting into I would never have wasted my time and money reading this book.
It doesn't take much of an author to gather a bunch of emails stick them in a book and call it a memoir. And this is exactly what this book is.
I ordered a sample to my kindle and although the sample seemed interesting and was written as a memoir when I downloaded the entire book I was extremely disappointed to find the book's content was full of email correspondenses between two gay lovers. It may have been better if the emails actually had some substance but they were ridiculously boring, usually being about nothing except insecurity and constant ego stroking. It also lacked a decent transistion to end the book, as if the author ran out of content so just quit writing.
With all the wonderful books out there, don't waste your time reading this. It isn't even worth one star on a scale from 1-10.
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OMG!! |
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I kinda stumbled on this book at first and it grabbed my attention.. As soon as I started reading it I could not put it down, I mean I even brought it to work.. I think that Dennis Schleicher is a complete genuine author.. He truely writes from the heart and after reading the book you feel like you part of the story as he simply is a awesome writer.. It is quite amazing to be able to write with such passion and emotion something that the reader can feel through the whole book.. This is totally a book to read :) |
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Wow... But Not in a Good Way |
Recently, I found myself in a similar situation as Dennis. As this is uncharted territory for me, naturally, the minute I saw Dennis' book, I downloaded it and finished it in about 5 hours. One might assume that my reading so quickly was because it was a page-turner. No. It was because I was looking forward to getting to the part of the book that would have some value to me. That never happened.
Dennis' self-gradiosity is most off-putting. What does having a Mercedes have to do with anything? Same with designer jeans, the "exclusivity" of the clubs he belongs, having drinks named for him or the "high-society" circle of friends he has. The list goes on and on and on and adds absolutely NOTHING to story. Dennis often maligns the gay community as being superficial and why he shuns it, but apparently he hasn't walked by a mirror to see anything deeper than his hairstyle, designer clothes or his self-love of his body and male endowment. In my book, that is THE epitome of superficial. This hypocracy then makes me question the truthfulness of the rest of his story -- which is whole reason I purchased the book in the first place.
In my opinion, Dennis' whole purpose for writing this book was to capitalize on (and line his pockets with) the popularity of the movie "Brokeback Mountain," which he references innumerable times. Sure, I liked the movie alot too. But sorry, Dennis is no Jake Gylenhall.
Remove all of the above, the only thing left is the republishing of his personal email box and uses them to tell his story, en toto. There was little insight into the turmoil his partner was going through and how he/they handled it. Given his true love of material things, I think the better approach to this book would have been his exploration of his insecurities as a gay man in love with a married man, but I doubt he is really aware of this.
I feel this book is mistitled. There seemed to be nothing forbidden in this story and it ends just like a typical night out in a gay bar might.
I came away with little to no further understanding of my situation after reading this book. |
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More Revealing than the Author Realized - Amazing - Buy It & Read It, Give it 5 Stars! |
More Revealing than the Author Realized - Amazing - Buy It & Read It, Give it 5 Stars!
I rated "Forbidden Love with a Married Man" five stars because of the author's willingness to tell so much about himself (good and bad) this is a Tell All Explosive Memoir/ Diary of Love, Hate, Shame, Loss, & Found.
I need to say upfront that I am not gay, but thought Dennis and Byron have a great love for each other as it should not matter if you are gay or straight to enjoy this diary/book. This was an amazing story, it told you everything you wanted and didn't want to know about how hard it is for any gay, bi, married straight gay husbands.
Despite all these reservation Dennis had dating a married man you feel he could have been one himself. There are some things that happen in this book that are both terrifying and saddening. It shows you that something really has to be done w/ the "gay marriage & don't ask, don't tell" policy. Anyone should be able to get married.
Some of the things Dennis shares, just breaks your heart like his sexual attack that happened when I was 90210. NO one should have any assault like that. Dennis is a strong & brave person for attempting to help so many other people. He could be honored for his work.
This is a must have that will enlighten you to things you never knew happened and still happens. Forbidden Love is a better book then I could ever say.
Actress - Shannen Doherty
Review IT!!!!!
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