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In a time when much of the country sees red whenever the subject of gay marriage comes up, Dan Savage—outspoken author of the column “Savage Love”— makes it personal.
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The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
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Savage is so self absorbed and concious of who he might offend it’s as if he is writing for his family and friends. He doesn’t take chances with his writing, playing it safe for the most part…the rest is just boring. His other book, “The Kid” isn’t much better. I will not buy a book by him again.
Rating: 2 / 5
Maybe it was my copy but I felt the editing was horrible. I would read a sentence and had to go back because words had not been taken out. I don’t have an example (as I am done reading the book) but if I were to go back I am sure I would find over 20 such instances.
I enjoyed his writing and the subject matter. Only I don’t think the publisher/editor read the book. It was as though it had been edited by spell check, which we all know does not pick up everything. I can honestly say I have never read a book with typos so it was amazing and annoying. I thought How lazy is that? It’s an injustice to the reader. We expect the English language to be used correctly when buying a book.
I found that instead of telling friends about the subject matter and the book itself, I was discussing how appalling the errors were.
Overall, it’s good reading.
Rating: 3 / 5
Dan Savage is charming and speaks well. Writes as he speaks. The style and content is aimed at a certain demographic. But if you listen closely, you will worry about this guy.
He recently had a ‘Savage Love’ column aimed to respond to the criticism of a certain government official, a representative, who thought ‘back door sex’ (this is the euphemism) was unseemly, nay, distasteful.
His response to her was to describe the various ablutions that one must make before being on the receiving end (not intended as a pun, honestly!) and there was nary a mention of a condom. My guess is that Dan, who proclaims that he and his partner are NOT monogamous, doesn’t like that little flimsy health aid. Yeah, join the club.
Would I be charmed by all his heart-felt feelings about loving the guy he’s with right now? Yep. Would I trust Dan to be disease-free? Not necessarily.
So I would be entertained by his instruction (a lot of his Savage Love advice is basically illuminating the mechanics of an act, whatever it is), I wouldn’t trust him to be around in, oh, say, the next decade or two, to follow up with a sequel to a book about marriage.
In the interest of fairness, heterosexual men can be just as clueless as gay men.
Rating: 5 / 5
Take a closer look at the issue of same-sex marriage with this examination and criticism of both sides of the debate.
Rating: 5 / 5
His own story of being married in Canada brought me to tears. This book is very touching and thought provoking. If there is anyone out there who doesn’t quite know for sure what to think about the “gay lifestyle” they should definitely read this book and you should recommend this book to anyone you know. This book and author are amazing. 10 stars!
I am so glad that we read this book in college, because if it wasn’t for that I would have never known that Dan Savage wrote books and have been a huge fan of him ever since.
The very first day of my junior year of college we were given a list of books we would be reading that quarter. When I saw one of the authors listed as Dan Savage I got kind of excited, being that Dan Savage is the owner of The Stranger newspaper in Seattle, Washington. So, I picked up the book and to my amazement, I was in shock! Dan Savage quickly became one of my favorite authors in a heartbeat because of his “tell it like it really is” sense of tone, and writing style. Dan Savage is so easy to understand, and the way that he gets to the point about his life and his beliefs is simply mesmerized! I feel like I am a part of Dan Savage’s family after reading this book. Being a huge fan of biographies, and non fiction books this book really took me away. I found it even easier to relate to my gay brother after reading this book, even though I’ve lived with him my whole life and am extremely accepting and open minded. It took me into the shoes of a gay man, in a whole new viewpoint that I had never ever “lived through” before.
Rating: 5 / 5