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The Best Little Boy in the World

Andrew Tobias

Paperback | Pages: 247 pages

Rating: 3.87 | 1440 Users | 64 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Best Little Boy in the World: The Maturing of John Reid
ISBN:	0345381769 (ISBN13: 9780345381767)
Edition Language:	English

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The classic account of growing up gay in America.
"The best little boy in the world never had wet dreams or masturbated; he always topped his class, honored mom and dad, deferred to elders and excelled in sports . . . . The best little boy in the world was . . . the model IBM exec . . . The best little boy in the world was a closet case who 'never read anything about homosexuality.' . . . John Reid comes out slowly, hilariously, brilliantly. One reads this utterly honest account with the shock of recognition." The New York Times
"The quality of this book is fantastic because it comes of equal parts honesty and logic and humor. It is far from being the story of a Gay crusader, nor is it the story of a closet queen. It is the story of a normal boy growing into maturity without managing to get raped into, or taunted because of, his homosexuality. . . . He is bright enough to be aware of his hangups and the reasons for them. And he writes well enough that he doesn't resort to sensationalism . . . ." San Francisco Bay Area Reporter

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Title	:	The Best Little Boy in the World
Author	:	Andrew Tobias
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 247 pages
Published	:	May 11th 1993 by Ballantine Books (first published January 1st 1973)
Categories	:	LGBT. Gay. Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. GLBT. Queer. Gay Fiction

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Ratings: 3.87 From 1440 Users | 64 Reviews

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Honest, funny, and poignant. Many, if not most currently middle-aged gay men will find much of their own growing-up and coming-out experiences captured quite neatly, with frank humor and a touch of the bittersweet. The author's early sexual exploits may be more numerous, and perhaps bordering closer to what some may consider "sordid" than many people have experienced, the associated thoughts, feelings and responses are familiar to nearly everyone.Those with a close relationship with an adult gay

The sexually repressed childhood and adolescence of now-famous journalist, columnist, and investment guru Andrew Tobias [writing as John Reid] must have been awful for him, as it was for many of us. Tobias makes us sympathize, and we recognize much of our own early lives in his. In these respects his book is largely successful.Certainly it has been read extensively since 1973 by gay people for inspiration to come-out and by straight people to understand them. There is no doubt it has had a

A breezy, but important, book about What It's Like To Be Gay...or at least what it was like in the early '70s. Reid - the pen name of financial writer Andrew Tobias - describes his journey from childhood to coming out to learning to live "out" with humor and insight. This book was ahead of its time in its boldness, and it's sad that many of the same basic, logical, common-sense arguments for equality for gays and lesbians that still must be made today were in fact being made quite publicly back

A gay relative suggested I read this for an insight into what it's like to be in the closet. As many others have mentioned in reviews, it originally came out in 1973 so it's like reading into the past, with all its backward thinking and ignorance (he thinks being "ugly" probably contributes to being gay for example). But I almost think it's more a window into the life of a white upper class kid with all the privileges that go with it. He assumes others who aren't as smart or successful must be

I wonder if a book could possibly age worse than The Best Little Boy in the World. The narrator is arrogant, condescending, racist, misogynist, and completely delusional. The contempt he has for anyone who doesn't meet his standards (white, masculine, educated, rich, fit, young) comes through in every single page.Perhaps the worst part, though, is how prevalent these attitudes remain some 45 years later. It is maddening to read and reflect on how many BLBITWs there still are gay men who talk

Formative or simply informative? I think I've blocked it out.

I want to preface by saying that the times have really changed since this book was written. Unfortunately, there are still many places where gay people are persecuted and attitudes are homophobic. But quite a few things said in this book are different from our current understanding of gender and sexuality.That all said, it was a really great book about a boy growing up as a "good boy" who had a supporting family, good education, and did many "normal" things all the while knowing, deep down, that