Posted by azngeek at January 29th, 2007

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But then, I always get like this. I mean-I like girls. I get on well with them. And I like sex. Not that I’ve had all that much experience of it-not with another person being in the room at the same time, anyway. I just can’t somehow put the two together. I can be getting on really well with a girl but as soon as i get an inkling that there might be a chance of anything happening, I just freeze up. It’s scary. Sex is…well, it’s so rude, isn’t it? You wouldn’t think girls would like sex. You’d think it’s too rude for them. Doing sex with a girl, it’s a bit like putting a frog down their backs or scaring them with dead mice of throwing worms at them. They’re such sensible, grown-up sorts of people. And yet apparently even the nice ones like you sticking the rudest thing you have on your whole body up the exact, rudest part of their body that they have! It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

That’s a quotation from the book Doing It, by Melvin Burgess.(The thoughts of one of the characters regarding shall I say it, the taboo of eastern society, SEX) Contemplative book, sexual in theme, and in its own right a breakthrough in revealing the male psych in terms of sexuality. Not all males, but you definitely can see how the characters and thoughts are very much real. Very much every day. Modern day books about sexuality often revolve around the female psych. The confusion, ups and downs, and of course sometimes the down right horniness. Here, we see it from a males perspective. A revelation?I’d have to say so. Reading it, one explores the callousness of the male psych in terms of sex, but also explores how sympathetic they can be. Brings new meaning to too much blood going down there rather than the brain.

How did I feel reading Doing It, by Melvin Burgess? I felt angry, and disappointed in the development of some of the characters and how they handled situations. Somewhat jealous as well. I’m very much unlike them, and I know that I’ve been raised with a different culture. The humor is very much Melvin Burgess, and he pulled it off well. British slang I always find amusing as well.

Overall, I give it a 4.5/5 as a fun yet contemplative read.

So well there you have it. My first review.