wow.

[highlyeccentric]

this is an amazing story...

Then, in 1952 - a few months after Lee met Charlie - George Jorgensen's transformation to Christine Jorgensen made the front pages and created new possibilities for people like Lee. From then on, Lee said, he knew he had to have the operation.

He had never told Charlie, he said, "Because I was afraid you'd leave me."

Charlie knew how it felt to hate his own body, to want to change it. But this?

"I didn't understand how any man could want to do that, " he says. "But I saw how miserable Lee was. I wanted him to be happy." His voice breaks."I loved him."

Charlie looks up to the box on the refrigerator. He wipes his eyes. Switches pronouns.

"To this day, I love her."

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[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

You may absolutely steal it! Perhaps it will be the next big thing to hit universities all over the world.

I have to admit, if I had started with Baudolino, I would probably hate Eco. I read Name of the Rose first which I absolutely loved! I devoured it in a few sittings. I read Baudolino next, which bored me to tears initially. I was still reeling from Rose, though, and so I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and slog through. It's not my favorite, and I haven't really much liked anything else I've read by him yet (The Island of the Day Before, Queen Loana, etc). But I've read Name of the Rose three times now, and to date the only other book I've read that many times is the Hitchhiker's Guide. =)

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

I read Name of The Rose first- when i was maybe 15. Liked it but found it a bit much for my brain at the time. I should really go back to it...

I liked Baudolino much better right up to the point where i noticed the plot hadn't moved for two hundred pages ;)

[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

Wow! Fifteen. That book would have asploded my head at fifteen. I was still reading Stephen King and other such trashy things back then! =)

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

hmm. funny, i started reading some Stephen King over the last summer. A weird sci-fi fantasy sort of trilogy. Didn't like it much.

anyway, yes. I was a precocious fifteen year old ;)
If i said i read it in the second-last year of high school, would that sound better?

[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

Haha! Somehow, illogically, it is more satisfying. At any rate, I read it at 22, so I automatically feel inferior. At fifteen I was mainly obsessed with X-Files and Les Miserables =)

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

what a strange combination... x-files and Les Mis...

At fifteen I was in the height of my Tolkien Obsessive phase ;) which nicely co-incided with the movie releases.

[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

That is nice timing! My Tolkien obsession came a bit later, by the time I was already in university. I read the books again before I saw the movie.