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100 Boyfriends
100 Boyfriends | Brontez Purnell
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Brontez Purnells 100 Boyfriends is a symphony of sex, trouble and wisdomas if the composer had sex with each member of the orchestra by way of getting it right. An electric prismatic genre-defying punk literary flight, Purnell is twirling here I loved every page." --Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel An irrerverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero "Its like that saying, 'Where god closes a door, he opens a window,' but in this particular case the window was on the fifth floor and the house was on fire." Transgressive, foulmouthed, and devastatingly funny, Brontez Purnells 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fightingand often losingthe urge to self-sabotage. His characters solicit sex on their lunch breaks, expose themselves to racist neighbors, sleep with their coworkers husbands, rub Preparation H on their hungover eyes, and, in an uproarious epilogue, take a punk band on a disastrous tour of Europe. They also travel to claim inheritances, push past personal trauma, and cultivate community while living on the margins of a white supremacist, heteronormative society. Armed with a deadpan wit that finds humor in even the lowest of nadirs, Brontez Purnella widely acclaimed underground writer, filmmaker, musician, and performance artistwrites with the peerless zeal, insight, and horniness of a gay punk messiah. From dirty warehouses and gentrified bars in Oakland to desolate farm towns in Alabama, Purnell indexes desire, desperation, race, and loneliness with a startling blend of levity and vulnerability. Together, the slice-of-life tales that writhe within 100 Boyfriends are a singular and uncompromising vision of an unexposed queer underbelly. Holding them together is the vision of an iconoclastic storyteller, as fearless as he is human.
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Bertha_Mason
100 Boyfriends | Brontez Purnell

"I fucked him doggy-style because it‘s the easiest way for two strangers to cum. He was facedown pretending that I was someone else. I was watching him facedown pretending that he was someone else. He was facedown pretending that he was someone else. I was watching him facedown pretending I was someone else.
It was over soon."
-"Meandering (part two)"

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Bertha_Mason
100 Boyfriends | Brontez Purnell

"He had to kill all the boys. This was his job. A boy plant‘s pollen can travel up to half a mile away and, with one drop of it, the whole crop would get seeded."
-"Early Retirement"

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Bertha_Mason
100 Boyfriends | Brontez Purnell

"Sex is just light points on a grid, stars in the Milky Way, but really, the ether holding them all together is the waiting. Just sitting around, waiting in some feces-scented bathroom hoping to get fucked."
-"Letter of Resignation"

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Bertha_Mason
100 Boyfriends | Brontez Purnell

"He is equal parts chubby and fit—he‘s built like a tenth-grade football player and his body is a constant source of inspiration for me. He looks like a human sausage packed tightly in respectable H&M off-the-rack wear, and all I can think about is getting inside his asshole."
-"Letter of Resignation"

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Bertha_Mason
100 Boyfriends | Brontez Purnell

"He came in like three minutes and then showed me how to play Magic: The Gathering as promised, and though I never fucked him again I still to this day meet him every other Wednesday to play the game."
-"Boyfriend #666 / The Satanist"

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Bertha_Mason
100 Boyfriends | Brontez Purnell

"One boyfriend was this white top who had a big-ass dick, and thank god he was hung because he was dumb as fuck. He didn‘t know what calculus was. He had a deep-ass country accent and was telling us a story about how he had woken up in a jail cell covered in feces one night and he almost went to jail for longer but luckily his mother loaned him $12,000 and it all got cleared up."
-"Boyfriend #40 / The Gentleman"

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Bertha_Mason
100 Boyfriends | Brontez Purnell

"He was way taller than me so I fit neatly into him after the squirting epic semen battle we would have."
-"Boyfriend 2.0 / The Firefighter"

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psalva
100 Boyfriends | Brontez Purnell
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I‘m bailing at around 50%. There were some vignettes/stories that worked for me, but I am finding myself losing interest in all the dysfunction without a through-plot. The writing is good so I may come back to this or read some of the author‘s other work at some point.

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kera_11
100 Boyfriends | Brontez Purnell
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The author is a gay Black man who tells the explicit history of his dating and sex life. Idk how to describe this book besides like deranged? and honest? funny? but also like what the hell? but a job well done giving a platform to his voice and experiences.

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Hooked_on_books
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I‘m at a loss in how to describe this. It‘s maybe short stories and maybe a novel and filled with a LOT of M/M sex (pretty much constant). It‘s laugh out loud funny in places and I enjoyed reading it. I‘m glad TOB put it on their longlist and brought it to my attention.

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Hooked_on_books
100 Boyfriends | Brontez Purnell
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I love when authors get real in their author photos and more than likely look like themselves rather than glamazons. But I‘m wondering if Brontez took the casual author photo idea a little too far? 😂

LeahBergen 🤣🤣 3y
julesG 😂😂 3y
GingerAntics 😂🤣😂 3y
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leah152 He looks like he should be holding a beer in one hand & the hose in the other lol! 🤣😂 3y
squirrelbrain 🤣🤣🤣 3y
kplovesbooks Just... why?! 🤣🤣🤦 3y
Ruthiella 😂😂😂 Maybe? 3y
vivastory Author photos in the age of Covid 😂 😂 3y
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Reggie
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Holy $&@*!!! What did I just read? This slim book is written by a Black, gay, author who writes about all manners of the ex boyfriend. From drug use, to unprotected sex, the dysfunction, to cheating, to the loneliness, the dysfunction, the yearning, the ghosts we all carry around, the dysfunction, the self sabotage. VERY MESSY stuff. Then there were times where I laughed out loud. Did I mention dysfunction? Parnell can write and I ate it up. Pick!

Twainy I just finished a book where I was thinking … what‘s going on !! for like the first half. 😆 3y
Centique I love the dysfunction 😂 Sometimes one word is so perfect for a book 🙌 3y
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TiminCalifornia
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Deranged, delightful, dangerous. Beautiful, bold. Strange, sensitive. Among the boyfriends in 100 Boyfriends we‘ll find all of the above. The narrator, too, is all of these things. And funny. And serious. A Venn diagram of my life and the narrator‘s would have only a modest overlap yet there is something here I connected to in a way that feels essential and deep. Well-crafted collection of stories of modern, gritty, gay life.

#netgalley

rwmg wishlisted 4y
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TiminCalifornia
100 Boyfriends | Brontez Purnell
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Woke up today to two notices - one from Goodreads that I am a Giveaway Winner and one from Netgalley that I‘ve been approved for an ARC. Both notices for the same book! 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell.

Would have bought a couple scratchers if I had known it was my day to win things! First time I‘ve gotten a Goodreads giveaway too.

#blackauthors
#lgbtq

Chelleo It's not to late to buy scratchers! Congrats! 4y
thegreensofa Congratulations! 👏🏻🎉 🎉 4y
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KarenUK
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Intimate, explicit, chaotic, messy, heartbreaking, full of self-destructive behavior and at times quite funny.
I loved the structure, a collection of mostly brief encounters and stories, a loose feeling to the prose, a messiness to it all. Definitely not for everyone, but I could sense the sadness and heartbreak beneath so many of the tales. Excellent raw writing, that I totally just went with....
#pop21 #previouschallengeprompt #numberinthetitle

BarbaraBB This sounds incredible! And those quotes you posted... #stacked! 4y
Cinfhen Sounds good!! I‘m gonna look for it on #NetGalley ♥️ 4y
KarenUK @barbarabb @cinfhen be warned.... there is a LOT of promiscuous sex! (edited) 4y
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Cinfhen You‘re preaching to the choir xxx 😁 4y
BarbaraBB @Cinfhen 🤣🤣 4y
alisiakae Great review! 4y
Kalalalatja Tjener blurb and your review sound amazing! 4y
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KarenUK
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BarbaraBB What a great quote 😀❤️ 4y
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KarenUK
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#ARC #netgalley great so far.....

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