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it is rich in teh gay.

It is.

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It pushes all my buttons, mainly by being set in an interesting time that isn't this one and by having the most unreliable narrator of all time (because he doesn't actually know, for a long time, what he's done in his own past; in fact it's possible he never knows or tells all of it). Incidentally I think the internalised homophobia someone in this thread speaks of is there, but it is the narrator's not the writer's - Jacob does, after all, live in an age when what he wants and does is held to be sinful, and being a believer the only way he can get around that is to deny it to the extent that quite often he consigns it to a part of his mind and memory he isn't even conscious of. And certainly the writer, who isn't remotely like Jacob, knows exactly what she's doing with him and his complicated thought processes (I can vouch for that cos I was there when she was writing it). It was a hell of a page-turner for me.