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A collection of autobiographical essays, rogue journalism, satire, and other writings by the late gay activist explores the experience of being gay, Jewish, and having AIDS in America from a darkly humorous perspective. Reprint.
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Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); 1995-11-01
- Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
- ISBN: 0140240802
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 9 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #1405731
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Summary: Funny Tragedy 2008-12-16
Comment: I can't believe he made such a funny book about a heartbreaking subject. I am in shock that this even happened. If only I could have one more book from him. However, it is too damn late. I can not believe I am wanting to cry and laugh at the same time.
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Summary: This book was awesome.... 2003-12-30
Comment: I read this book for the first time when I was about 8(I found it in my parent's bedroom and snuck and read it under my bed and in the laundry room).
Feinberg was such a superb writer,bravely tackling the issue of AIDS and introducing it to the public from a first person kind of view. I was saddened that I didn't get a chance to read his work until 5 years after his death. This novel was ironicly hilarious, devastating and powerful. A work of pure genius.
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Summary: Thank God it's not me... 2000-08-06
Comment: If Silence=Death, then David Feinberg would still be here forcing us to look at what life was/is for those suffering with AIDS. He's the traffic accident you can't help but look at as he forces us to laugh at what is by definintion, not funny. He's the bad joke at a funeral, the one we are all grateful for but would never own. RIP, David... MJ.
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Summary: FANTASTIC!!!! 1999-09-15
Comment: Mr. Feinberg's words are spectacular. The reader is certainly transported to another time and place . Sometimes the place isn't where one wants to be, however, one learns how a person copes with living with HIV. I laughed, cried and worried throughout. I believe this book is good for anyone to read and I highly recommend it to anyone who doesn't have a clue about HIV. Enjoy!!
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Summary: Banal, hyperbolic and, in the end, tedious 1999-07-03
Comment: I found this book remaindered and, seduced by the breathless reviews on the back, decided to give it a try. It may be bad form to criticize this last book by a writer who succumbed to the very disease around which the subject matter revolves, but I'm afraid that's what one must do to be honest. It's surprising that someone of such obvious intelligence could write a book that epitomizes Fran Lebowitz's remark that one should not detain a fleeting insight. Most of the essays cry out for the patient pen of a competent copy editor, and there is very little here that hasn't been said with more grace, insight and craft elsewhere. Fans of Feinberg's novels will no doubt want to investigate this, but the self-indulgent prose and pretense to outrageousness will probably get old fast for almost all other readers.
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Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone
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