The Male Cross-dresser Support Group |
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Author:
Tama Janowitz
By Picador
Average Customer Rating:  
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780330329583
ISBN: 0330329588
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 1993-07-02
Publisher: Picador
Studio: Picador |
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Bright Lights, Big City
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Title is rather irrelevant to most part of the story!, 1999-04-18
Guess I have anticipated too much. It took me more than a week to finish this book. I feel that the momentum and the pace of the novel is rather slow and there isn't any reference to cross-dressing that was long due until the last part. I had read the novel on the pretext of the title , thinking that it was going to be a novel (something akin to gay fiction)about Pamela's identity crisis that she's facing and how she might have later thrived in her new identity.Something that appears to be humorous despite the underlying seriousness on a quest for a true 'self'. Unfortunately, the novel isn't so. In addition, I feel that this metamorphosis that Pamela had undergone was too abrupt. The part where she was discovered in her purple panties and that leading her to the male cross dresser support group was also rather incredulous. There wasn't much said about the male cross dresser support group and Pamela had only gone for 1 session. Hence, how can the title be founded on just this one isolated incident when there are many sub-plots in the story? I thought this as rather misleading and I seriously recommend a change in title. Perhaps something like "The misadventures of Pamela Trowel"?
The Story's Not So Great, But The Writing's Good, 1998-11-30
For the first 3/4 of the book, the unrelated incidents don't seem like much of a plot... just one bad day after another for the main character. The last 1/4 is pretty funny & I even laughed out loud a couple times. However, when I told a friend about it, she accused me having bad taste & said I wouldn't know funny from stupid.
Laugh-out-loud hilarious!, 1999-08-10
I found this book delightfully, quirkily hilarious. I can't think when I laughed so much while reading a novel. I think this would be a cool, quirky cult film. The humor is somewhat weird and sicko, but the heroine and the little boy are so endearing and the situations so ludicrous that the whole thing comes off as charming.
wonderful agony - fabulous heart, 2004-12-15
Forget the last two novels (what has happened to your wit, Tama?) this is Tama Janowitz's best work & just might be the best comic novel EVER. Part of Tama's talent is to make you squirm just as you laugh and say out loud 'why are you DOING that?!' What may save this from causing total agony, apart from the fabulous description and wit, is the child. This relationship as well as the wild journey this novel takes them on, is its heart - and maybe it is heart that is lacking in 'A Certain Age' and 'Peyton Amberg'. They were just depressing. If you enjoy this, you should also read 'By The Shores of Gitchee-Gimee' another novel of shining comic wit, fab relationships and great dialogue (the kind you read again and again, it is so thrilling). I would also recommend her collection of non-fiction 'Area Code 212' and marvel at how like her characters she actually is! I can only hope and pray that SOMETHING brings Tama (who I once considered to be my favourite author) back to the wonder of 'Male Cross-Dressers'. Perhaps she peaked. I hope not.
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