Almost Like Being in Love | Steve Kluger

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	Almost Like Being in Love Steve Kluger, 2004 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 64 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A high school jock and nerd fall in love senior year, only to part after an amazing summer of discovery to attend their respective colleges. They keep in touch at first, but then slowly drift apart.

Flash forward twenty years.

Travis and Craig both have great lives, careers, and loves. But something is missing .... Travis is the first to figure it out. He's still in love with Craig, and come what may, he's going after the boy who captured his heart, even if it means forsaking his job, making a fool of himself, and entering the great unknown. Told in narrative, letters, checklists, and more, this is the must-read novel for anyone who's wondered what ever happened to that first great love.

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IT WAS LOVE

What a wonderful, wonderful book. From the moment I read the first line I knew I had something very special in front of me. My only complaint is I was so engaged in the lives of these charming characters that I read the entire book in one setting. I simply couldn't put it down.

The style of the book is a fresh, modern and wholly charming take on the novel. I think about my own life-with all the letters, clippings, e-mails, cards etc. Those things do tell the story of my life and my dear love.

This book has something for everyone. Just buy it, enjoy and believe in the power of LOVE.

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Wow! Total page turner!

This book was absolutely excellent. This is, hands down, the greatest, most adorable, heartwarming, funny, and touching book I have ever read. If you love great romances, this book is for you!

Amazing characters

The best type of book is the one that makes you want to sit down and get to know all the characters better. This book does all that and more. I've always loved books written in an epistolary style, and "Almost Like Being in Love" is a terrific example.

The main character is endearing, quirky, and is obliviously hilarious. The plot is good, but really, what matters is the way the author showcases each of his characters. It's the perfect read whenever you're feeling a little gloomy, just like The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure or Love Actually (Widescreen Edition)

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Unequivocally and joyfully recommended

This incredibly witty and warm story is the kind of book which makes the world a better place. Forget this being about gay guys. This is about love, and friendship, and relationships, and the people who support us through our tribulations. Also baseball, which was the bit I connected with least, but hey, you can't have everything. But it's mostly about Travis and Craig, and their wonderfully funny and loyal friends. Every character in this is a standout. Travis is OCD, and a real sweetheart - mad, brilliant, neurotic and determined, obsessed with baseball and history, and prone to extravagant methods of catching the attention of men he fancies. He drives people insane, and makes them fall in love with him forever. He's the one who never found happiness after Craig, never found the right man, the ideal boyfriend, and it's his realisation that he has to go back to where it started, that gets everything rolling - but we're a good way into the book before that even begins.

Craig is a mover and shaker, a lawyer committed to personal rights, in love with a decent, faithful and supportive man, apparently happily settled. His partner Clayton is steady, doesn't like change, and is deeply committed to his lover - he's the kind of man every mother would want their son or daughter to bring home. He and Craig are truly happy, as married as two gay men can be. Yet when Craig suspects Travis is about to re-enter his life, he can't help but be glad to have a chance to settle a chapter in his life, with the first man he ever fell in love with. That this coincides with conflict with Clayton and potential huge changes in this life, means Travis might just have a chance with him.

Their story is told in letters, memos, checklists, legal reports, assignments, newspaper clippings, diary entries and emails between them and their friends, students, acquaintances, business colleagues and to each other. It's laugh out loud funny without degenerating into silliness, though Travis manages to get himself into some farcical situations, and the humour is crisp and fast, kind of like John Cusack on crack. Craig's law partner and best friend, Charleen, adds a blunt, common-sense flavour to the novel, and a precocious boy from a broken home has some of the best lines.

There's too much going on in the plot to summarise, but it's not confusing or difficult to follow, even though it skips back and forth between Craig and Travis's teenage years, the recent past and the present, mirroring Travis's manic search for love and happiness, and his crazed approach to just about everything. The story also doesn't end how you think it will, and pulls off the difficult trick of squaring Craig and Clayton's real love for each other with Craig and Travis's lifelong devotion.

The writing is simply terrific - masterly, in fact - and I fell in love with Travis, Charleen and Noah. Craig, I had reservations about because I liked Clayton so much and didn't want to see him hurt. Fortunately, the author gives these lovely people the happy and dignified futures they deserve.

"Almost like being in love" is about second chances, and the intensity of your first real love, a memorable romance, and a remarkably humane piece of writing.

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Probably my favorite book ever!

Hilarious, touching, intelligent, and incredibly original - these are just a few adjectives that I can use to describe this book. It had me smiling the entire time I was reading it, with more laughing out loud funny parts than any book I've ever had the good fortune to read.

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