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When I read it I knew I wasn't the only one.
When I went to High School in Kansas I soon learned that an author had gone to the same one as me. After a few years, I found Scott Heim's first book "Mysterious Skin". I read it and it was like a punch in the chest. The story takes place in my community and amongst the people I thought I knew. I also share the same sexuality as the main character. I found...
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three stars would give it too much credit
Somebody I chatted with in a chat room recommended that I read this book, saying that the authors I normally read (Anne Rice, Dean koontz, V. C. Andrews) are all trash, and that I should read a good book like this one. From my prospective, this book wasn't complete garbage, I did read it in three days, but it didn't give me the satisfaction of know a good story that other...
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When I read it I knew I wasn't the only one., 24. Juni 1999
Von Ein Kunde
When I went to High School in Kansas I soon learned that an author had gone to the same one as me. After a few years, I found Scott Heim's first book "Mysterious Skin". I read it and it was like a punch in the chest. The story takes place in my community and amongst the people I thought I knew. I also share the same sexuality as the main character. I found the book to be a sweet and painful release to the suffering I've gone through in this state of Kansas. The hurt and horror of this book was all to familiar. Heim's words and language, his graphic paintings of reality, and his twists of beauty and perversity pour out onto the pages of this unworldy novel. Don't expect to read it and pass it off. His books will live in your memory for a long time. To take his work to heart is to look at this world with wider eyes. Definately, this book is a must. Even though the book hurts so much to read and you will want to put it away, you can't. And in the end, through the horror, you will see the beauty of his work.
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gut, 17. März 2006
Ich find das Buch echt toll. Es ist auch nicht all zu schwer zu verstehen. Die Story an sich is echt interessant. Es wird mehr oder weniger das Leben von zwei (oder mehr?) Menschen beschrieben. Und ich find das Leben andere Menschen einfach faszinierent.
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You will cry., 20. Mai 2000
The honesty of this novel through its fierce imagery and changing narrative left me with a lump in the back of my throat. It has the effect of passing through a car accident: you are captivated and horrified at the same time as events unfold themselves to you. His juxtaposition of the disturbingly dangerous erotic encounters of one main character and the almost sterile sexlessness of the other provides a wonderful balance and an insight as to how two human minds are affected forever by a common childhood molestation. The almost polar obsessions that form as these two boys grow up don't pit one character as the moral superior of the other, but creates an empathy from the reader for these two souls as they drift through events from which they consciously or subconciously are looking for answers. The climax of the novel is almost anticlimactic in that their meeting again is inevitable but Heim's magic of language, metaphor, and imagery creates a powerful scene as these characters finally look to each other for the truth. For the author to weave a story around such daring subject matter was bold enough, but to create such dualing forces throughout the novel (desire vs. love; reality vs. fiction; Kansas vs. New York) without going to extremes or stereotypes drew me in.
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This novel brings some serious issues to light!, 5. Februar 2000
I had trouble starting Mysterious Skin as for some reason, I was confused by the narrative so I automatically assumed it was a fairly perfunctory read. However, half way into the novel I was pleasantly suprised. Heim has written a lyrical, beautiful and quite eloquent first novel and the suject matter of chilhood molestaton and the subsequent denial certainly packs a wallop! I loved Heim's use of similie and metaphor and his descriptions of the natural landscape of Kansas are breathtaking and wonderfully realised. He captures the constant eb and flow of the world that Brian and Neil wonder in; a world that keeps them a prisoner. This novel makes you change the way you view the world. Also fascinating is the portrayal of small town life and the adolescent gay angst that builds up in such a small "close" community. I too grew up in a small community so I could definitely relate to many of Brian's and Neil's yearnings, frustrations and fears. The time period - the early 1980's - the age of "new wave" music, dyed hair, back mascara etc, encapsulates and captures the isolationism and loneliness of growing up being "different" in a small, provincial community. Heim is also an expert at bringing the different narrative threads together and he keeps us guessing right up to the climax of the novel where Brian and Neil meet and confront the horrific childhood injustices done to them. Life in Mysterious Skin is hard, gritty, realistic - witness Neil's sexual escapades in Manhattan towards the end of the novel. This is gay New York at its best and the author shows his keen eye for understanding and observing the wilder, racier side of gay life. Heim never compromises and weaves a wonderful tapestry of mid western life with remarkable candor. A great piece of work and one of the best gay novels to encapsulate the trials and tribulations of small town life. This is a gay novel that not only deals with serious issues but also portrays the all enveloping angst of a disenfanchised generation. I await more work with eagerness!
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I LOVE THIS BOOK, 18. November 1999
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Terrific! Why isn't this book a movie? I loved the ending and it was sad and important and I wished it could have gone on a little longer. But it's still a 5-star book. Great cover too!
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Clean-cut and Tantalizing, 26. Juni 1999
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Heim was extraordinary with his work in the novel. The depiction of the characters and the setup itself allowed various voices to emerge and broadcast their perspective of events in this rupturing novel. Some situations may assume outlandish at best, but the reader would be captivated by the candor Heim exhibits. -- Frank Thorne
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LEFT ME SOBBING, 4. Juni 1999
Von Ein Kunde
It's been a while since I have read this book, but none of the others I have read previously or since have prompted me to seek out this chance to review. Definately one of the top three books I've read -- I only refrain from calling it the best because I read a lot and might not be thinking of everything. Much like the characters in the book (as well as the author) I was raised in Kansas and fled to a larger city when the first opportunity arose. Heim's description of the state was remarkably accurate, recalling the chilling winters and stark loneliness of the open plains so vividly I often took refuge at my window to reassure myself of where I was. More than that, the anguish he expresses reached so deeply into my psyche and touched something so familiar (yet I still have no recollection of what specifically) that I often closed a chapter with wailing sobs (unlike me) on my bed. This is not GAY FICTION as it is so often labeled. Such a classification is perverse on a book of this subject matter. Had the main characters been female, would this be categorized under erotica? It is a human story of ghastly intrusions that can happen to any one of us. Reading Mysterious Skin opens senses and emotions some may not realize they have and serves to better everyone's understanding of what we, at any age, may be subjected to. Final note: traditionally the last few pages of books disappoint me, but Mysterious Skin pleased me so much I copied the last page to keep before I loaned the book out. A thoroughly satisfying read that evokes thoughts few other books have even imagined. Bravo, Scott Heim!
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An intense story of two damaged souls, 11. Mai 1999
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"Mysterious Skin" is Scott Heim's first novel and it is a powerful book that really moved me. This novel is about two damaged souls, Neil and Brian, who were sexual abused as children by their baseball coach. Heim tells this disturbing narration through various points of view. Throughout the book we follow the reprecussions of their abuse, and the psychological harm it has done to these two young men. Brian, once the abuse is over, believes that he has been abducted by aliens and spends part of the novel searching for the missing piece of time in his childhood. And then we have Neil, who also falls victim to the coach, but he believes the abuse was a sign of love, not a violation. Neil becomes the town's rock and roll queer who starts hustling at, of all places, the baseball field. As the novel progress we see Neil's preoccupation with hustling and Brian's obession with aliens. These preoccupations end with a brutal rape of Neil by a psychotic john, and for Brian a derailed sexual encounter with a repressed older woman who believes she too was abducted. Neil and Brian finally meet and the sad truth comes to the surface. Through both their troubled and unhappy pasts, and by exposing the horrific events of it, perhaps Neil and Brian are finally released for their misguidedness. Heim's style is fresh, and the book keeps the reader absorbed in the story. In seceral ways I really didn't want this story to end. I could have read another two hundred pages. To put it simply: It really touched me. A must read for everyone!!!!
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A chilling but enthralling coming-of-age story, 15. April 1999
Von Ein Kunde
Read this book if you want to be both shocked and delighted. Scott Heim crafts a careful book full of some of the unpleasantries in life but in a way that drives the reader through the book happily. I cannot recommend enough!
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Great!!!!, 4. Dezember 1998
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Scott Heim's amazing first novel is one of the best books you'll read in your lifetime. A story that excites you, thrills you, enrages you and touches you. READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!
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