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Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
4.0
“‘I know you all have a plan for me, but I'm gonna do whatever it takes to shake that plan up. Your final cut is gonna be a nightmare.’”
You never really know what you’re going to get from Chuck Tingle. Sometimes it’s completely unserious gay dinosaur erotica. Other times, stirring dissections of how popular culture relies on the LGBTQ community for trends and audience numbers and money money money, while simultaneously vilifying it and upholding harmful stereotypes and rhetoric. “Bury Your Gays” landed on the latter oval of that specific Chuck Tingle Venn Diagram. With some terribly obvious “X-Files” influences, Tingle created a fast-paced jaunt through the Hollywood Hills that followed frighteningly relatable characters, spine tingling monsters, and delicately placed bursts of hope.
It is infuriating to have read a 1-star review citing self-prescribed “oldness and prudey-ness” for the rating. How awfully disheartening and boringly unhelpful. This book, and Dr. Chuck Tingle, deserved better.
4.5/5 Sometimes, not always, it’s nice to believe that love really will conquer all. And sometimes, not always, it’s the author of dozens of “Pounded in the Butt by…” novellas that makes you believe it.
You never really know what you’re going to get from Chuck Tingle. Sometimes it’s completely unserious gay dinosaur erotica. Other times, stirring dissections of how popular culture relies on the LGBTQ community for trends and audience numbers and money money money, while simultaneously vilifying it and upholding harmful stereotypes and rhetoric. “Bury Your Gays” landed on the latter oval of that specific Chuck Tingle Venn Diagram. With some terribly obvious “X-Files” influences, Tingle created a fast-paced jaunt through the Hollywood Hills that followed frighteningly relatable characters, spine tingling monsters, and delicately placed bursts of hope.
It is infuriating to have read a 1-star review citing self-prescribed “oldness and prudey-ness” for the rating. How awfully disheartening and boringly unhelpful. This book, and Dr. Chuck Tingle, deserved better.
4.5/5 Sometimes, not always, it’s nice to believe that love really will conquer all. And sometimes, not always, it’s the author of dozens of “Pounded in the Butt by…” novellas that makes you believe it.