Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

 

So, I remember when Chuck Tingle published wacky pornish novels that were mostly content free, where the jokes were pretty complete in the titles. This is not a wacky novel, and it struck me as remarkably humorless considering ... all that is and goes into Chuck Tingle and his works. The story was nothing special, had some plausibility issues (though magic-tech is a longstanding thing, so I'm not going to snark) and the characters other than the narrator registered mostly as blurs. Clearly Chuck Tingle has things he wants to say about being gay and art and gays in the narrative arts and stuff, and I mostly agree with those I have opinions on ... but this really isn't all that great a novel, which is a particular disappointment to me, because Chuck Tingle seems to be a genuinely great guy. Oh, well.