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I hope this is the appropriate place for this, but I was wondering if anyone here had any books that they would like to recommend to peeps looking for something yaoi-ish (or even just really slashable) to read in between manga. Especially with summer coming up and vacations and whatnot, for those who might be in need of something to read in the car or plane.
Anyway, these are a couple of my must-reads for yaoi fans, and it'd be cool if anyone has anything else to add.
Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima --This, with Confessions of a Mask, is one of Mishima's two big gay-themed novels and I think the more accessible. It's about a young man in postwar Tokyo who's just discovering his attraction to other men, who makes a deal with an aging novelist to dole out revenge on three women who scorned him. Yuichi, the young protagonist, gets torn between the deal, doing right by his new family, and the gay underworld of the rebounding city, none of which make him completely happy. It's chock-full of social decadence and vanity, and--Mishima's forte--the agonizing ephemerality of youth.
Vellum and Ink by Hal Duncan -- A two-part sci-fi series that follows seven individuals who awaken to the realization that they have lived the same stories in multiple timelines across multiple worlds, all of which are written in the Book of All Hours--which holds the only key to their escape from their respective fates. Duncan has a real knack for finding connections between mythologies, both ancient and modern (literally from ancient Sumeria to Lovecraft and Matthew Shepard), and between words, and making the most literarily of those connections; and two of the main characters, Jack and Thomas, have a truly beautiful relationship that will make your heart hurt.
Catullus -- I have The Complete Poems translated by Guy Lee and published by Oxford World Classics, but there are other versions. This one happens to include notes and the original Latin, which I'm told is much raunchier. Point being, Catullus has among his collection some wonderfully erotic poems about some of his male friends (XLVIII and L in particular stand out), and some baudier ones about notorious poofs in the Rome of his day. What can I say: he's a classic.
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