The Epic Love Story of Doug and Stephen edition by Valerie Z Lewis Literature Fiction eBooks
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A comedy about a bisexual mechanic turned model who aims to get the man of his dreams and save the world as soon as he finishes smoking this joint. R for language and implied sex. No DRM.
The Epic Love Story of Doug and Stephen edition by Valerie Z Lewis Literature Fiction eBooks
How did I find this little gem of a book? I usually only read supernatural - werewolves, vampires, ghosts, reincarnation (never zombies though; they give me nightmares). So I once read a book about two gay werewolves, and therefore gay fiction was put on my list of recommendations. Now I always check out what gets recommended, but I tend to shy away from books that have too much sex, because that's an excuse to not have plot or dialogue - which is why I like YA paranormal, because the authors have to actually TELL a story.I digress. I saw the title of this book and I was immediately interested. Then I read the reviews, and they said they literally laughed out loud and people looked at them strangely. Well, I like to laugh out loud and people always look at me strangely, so I bought.
What a find! First of all, this is the funniest book I have ever read. Literally ever. Stephen is the ultimate king of snark and is quite evil. And Doug is just plain dumb - a 14-year old teenage in the body of a 27-year old male model - think Jason Stackhouse on "True Blood". But - Doug is not as dumb as he speaks, and Stephen is not as evil as he first appears. Doug has a pure heart, and Stephen has a big heart - if only he weren't afraid to open it.
Doug works at a gay magazine as a model/column writer (???). He is totally straight, slept with hundreds of women, and then he meets Stephen, falls in love with him within a week ("You're my homosexual soul mate - let's have gay sex. Um, how does that work anyhow?"), and becomes Stephen's puppy/stalker. That's when the laughing begins.
Except, at heart, this is a really sweet love story about two really good people who were meant to find each other. The writing is so good - Valerie Lewis is brilliant - she should write a sitcom for NBC so they can get out of third place. She is a natural at dialogue, and her prose is awesome as well. These are two of the most interesting and endearing people I've ever read, and I beg for a sequel, because I want to hang out with them again. I did laugh out loud - a lot - and people did look at me strangely. But at least this time, I knew why.
BTW, if anyone is turned off by the thought of male-male sex, don't worry - it's only implied and the only thing described is kissing. It's quite tame. BTW, I'm married and straight, and you can be, too. You will love this book.
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The Epic Love Story of Doug and Stephen edition by Valerie Z Lewis Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Every line is so absolutely funny, bizarre, insightful, touching and simultaneously absurd that I found myself maniacally highlighting line after line until it dawned on me that it would be far simpler to highlight what wasn't any of those things, which was exactly nil, as far as I was concerned.
Doug was charmingly naive, blissfully ignorant in a way that only served to remind me how very little and unnecessary many of my griefs and frustrations are; Doug reminds you that insightful people need not be book smart or overly educated and they often far happier for it. His kindness and thoughtful innocence was so delightful that I laughed like the mad hatter the whole time. I loved when he says, "you can't exist on coffee and evil alone, you know." Sooooooooo freaking cute!!!!
Stephen is particularly unlikable and something in his bitter sarcasm is someone so familiar to me, to the majority of the human race perhaps, that I found myself caring for him, for his redemption, his evolution.
This has got to be one of the most delightfully, hopeful and heartwarming (without being saccharine) that I've had the pleasure in reading in a long time...I can't even remember when I found another book that so balanced cute and funny without falling down the Disney drain of shallow plasticity (not that I don't enjoy those from time to time too lol).
Doug and Stephen forever!!! Damn, I wish I wrote down all Doug's observations on the merits of "the gay sex" because they were priceless. Oh, well it's just another excuse to reread it.
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT REVIEWS BY JESSEWAVE, I PURCHASED THE BOOK ON MY OWN THOUGH
The main initial attraction of this story for me was the price (it is free from the author's website linked above or 99 cents from and Barnes and Noble) and while not without a few issues, what I got was a hilarious story for essentially free. I do not remember reading a story which had me laughing so hard for quite some time, and when I say "laughing hard" I mean exactly that. I found probably 90% of the dialogue to be laugh-out-loud funny.
The story is written from the POV of Doug, an incredibly charming character, who is very open and honest in what he wants and very, very funny. Doug reminded me (a little bit) of Al, one of the MCs from JL Merrow's story "Muscling Through", but while I found myself wondering whether Doug may have had a mental disability, or just very direct in his dealings with the world around him, I did not find their voices to be very similar, maybe just a very general vibe that I was getting? In any event, story itself is very different than "Muscling Through".
As we all know, humor is such a subjective thing, and what I loved and laughed at, you may hate, so let me give you an example of the humor in this story and maybe it will help you decide whether it will work for you or not
Doug looked at the paper doubtfully. "I'm not gonna have sex with any other guys, Stephen. I'm only gay for you."
"I'm touched," Stephen said. "Get out"
Stephen stood with his arms folded over his chest as Doug readied himself to leave. He put on his jacket, adjusted his orange hat, and retied his shoelaces. Then he stood smiling expectantly at Stephen.
"What part of `get out' was confusing?" Stephen asked.
Doug smiled suggestively. "Aren't you forgetting something?"
"A weapon?" Stephen offered.
Doug leaned forward and whispered, "It's our second date. It's okay to kiss me now."
"This is not a date," Stephen told him firmly. "The first event was blackmail, and the current event is stalking."
"What's the next event?"
"Punching."
Doug started backing towards the door. "I'll leave then. See you at work."
If this excerpt feels a little farcical, it is because it was in my opinion, but the story overall combines such moments (not sure how to call it better -- slapstick comedy? a little farcical?) with very sweet, very romantic ones and, in my opinion, does it quite well.
As you can see from the excerpt, initially Doug's love interest is not very interested in him, to put it mildly, but on his way of searching for his sexual identity Doug manages to win Stephen's heart and show him what are most important things in life. In fact, I wished that sometimes Stephen would have gotten over himself faster and stopped being so mean to Doug faster, but don't get me wrong, Stephen's behavior made sense to me and the change in his behavior made sense to me as well.
But as funny as I found this story and while I liked it overall, I had some niggles that brought my rating down. First, I felt it needed editing and cutting in my opinion. At times we get whole pages of incidents -- for example info-dumps from the characters' pasts which I would speculate were meant to show why both Doug and Stephen behaved the way they did -- but I thought sometimes it went on and on for too long and at times (not too often) got a little tedious. Moreover, and even though it did not cease being funny, their interactions themselves sometimes got very repetitive. Lastly, there is a mini-mystery, so to speak, with a villain that appears in the middle of the story and I felt it was not a very well-developed subplot.
Basically I mostly recommend this story for the funny dialogue and enjoyable main characters, but again, read the excerpt and see if the humor works for you, because if it does not, you will not enjoy the book, since I thought that humor was its main strength.
How did I find this little gem of a book? I usually only read supernatural - werewolves, vampires, ghosts, reincarnation (never zombies though; they give me nightmares). So I once read a book about two gay werewolves, and therefore gay fiction was put on my list of recommendations. Now I always check out what gets recommended, but I tend to shy away from books that have too much sex, because that's an excuse to not have plot or dialogue - which is why I like YA paranormal, because the authors have to actually TELL a story.
I digress. I saw the title of this book and I was immediately interested. Then I read the reviews, and they said they literally laughed out loud and people looked at them strangely. Well, I like to laugh out loud and people always look at me strangely, so I bought.
What a find! First of all, this is the funniest book I have ever read. Literally ever. Stephen is the ultimate king of snark and is quite evil. And Doug is just plain dumb - a 14-year old teenage in the body of a 27-year old male model - think Jason Stackhouse on "True Blood". But - Doug is not as dumb as he speaks, and Stephen is not as evil as he first appears. Doug has a pure heart, and Stephen has a big heart - if only he weren't afraid to open it.
Doug works at a gay magazine as a model/column writer (???). He is totally straight, slept with hundreds of women, and then he meets Stephen, falls in love with him within a week ("You're my homosexual soul mate - let's have gay sex. Um, how does that work anyhow?"), and becomes Stephen's puppy/stalker. That's when the laughing begins.
Except, at heart, this is a really sweet love story about two really good people who were meant to find each other. The writing is so good - Valerie Lewis is brilliant - she should write a sitcom for NBC so they can get out of third place. She is a natural at dialogue, and her prose is awesome as well. These are two of the most interesting and endearing people I've ever read, and I beg for a sequel, because I want to hang out with them again. I did laugh out loud - a lot - and people did look at me strangely. But at least this time, I knew why.
BTW, if anyone is turned off by the thought of male-male sex, don't worry - it's only implied and the only thing described is kissing. It's quite tame. BTW, I'm married and straight, and you can be, too. You will love this book.
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