Boy Erased Book Reviews

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So glad I read this book. Great compelling, raw story. I finished the book within 2 days - couldn’t put it down! The author showed his struggle with being gay in an ultra-conservative religious group and the warped experience conversion therapy was. As a reader who has never been in his situations (not gay, not overly religious, no controlling family, etc) I want to come up with solutions but no solution works except for him to live his truth.

A powerful memoir. Book contains triggers: rape and sexuality A painfully uncomfortable unapologetic memoir of going through ex-gay therapy that almost broke the author. Now it’s a motion picture that is going to make some people deny things like this ever happened; especially when so many strides have been made. But with the world tilting back towards denial and unabashed hate, a book like this is an important touchstone to educate those who act rather than think. As we head into the 50th year after Stonwall, this book is as important as #Blacklivesmatter and #MeToo.

Melodramatic Indulgence. Garrard Conley is the luckiest man on earth — lucky that someone has paid him to make a movie version of this “memoir.” “Boy Erased” is an exercise in melodramatic indulgence. It reads for the most part like a compilation of juvenile notes the author made at a time of spiritual crisis, dominated by his struggle to come to terms with his sexual identity. The result is a painstaking beating of the dead horse of his emotions, rendered awkwardly and sometimes redundantly. Yes, there is an important message here about gay conversion therapy, but it could have been conveyed in probably half the pages. And there’s an additional message that apparently never sank in with the author: we sometimes imagine that we are victims of external forces when in truth we’re victims of our own weaknesses, of our own inability to swim against the current. Maybe with more conviction, the author wouldn’t have been pulled along and made so confused as he was. But all in all, there’s nothing particularly unique or interesting here. It’s a boring and poorly written book.

Important, gripping, overwritten. Really glad this story is being told but if Mr. Conley wants to be a writer and not just a confessional-memoir one-hit wonder/overpaid speakers bureau type, he’s going to need to know when to ease off the imagery pedal, especially once the book sales spike again when the movie comes out and his novel has that much more pressure to sell. I don’t think I’ll ever find the concept of an afterimage interesting again, sis.

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