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arcapellago
2007-06-27
ch 8,
abuseI read this and the poem, they were so sad. To make it worse, things like this happen in real life. It was very deep and emotional but I am very much glad that you chose to write and share this story.
bansira
2006-09-12
ch 8,
abuseNo words to describe how greatly moving this was... wow. Just incredible!
skunk
2005-06-24
ch 8,
abuseI need to go hug my daddy. Great story it makes you apperciative of what you got, ya know?
Tate Soyker
2005-03-08
ch 8,
abuseSo, i nearly cried in the first and second chapters, then I got to the end and was so shocked and sad, Poor Nathan! a very well writen piece though, I even thought I liked Rice and Matthew
Naomi Schemer
2004-08-02
ch 8,
abusethats one story i wanted to end good.
Stefen
2004-06-23
ch 8,
abuseOh my god! That was so sad! I'm crying! You are an amazing writer! This was brilliant!
Ilana
2004-06-20
ch 8, anon.
abuseThat was so sad! I loved it!
Delete Name
2004-04-22
ch 1,
abuseHmm... my grandfather was like this. He had the perfect family, a wife, a daughter, and a son. Then he had another son. He hit my youngest uncle because he was the odd man out, and had ADD, causing him to get into trouble.
So I can understand the mindset of the macho father. But I can't understand the mindset of the overcaring mother.
Sure, mothers care for their children like nobody else, but when their children are wrong, the mothers still tell them. It's wrong to do otherwise.
And that line about waking up and deciding they're gay, I have a few comments on it.
I once met a few guys, some neighbors, who were really into **. They enjoyed putting it on their backpacks, on their jackets, tattooes, and cars. It got to the point that I couldn't stand it. So what did I do? When my parents weren't around, I used to mess with their pictures, adding bikini's.
The boys, of course, didn't like it, so they said, simply, "Since these pictures obviously annoy you, find some chicks equally arousing that are dressed."
So I did.
I found lots and lots of girls in lingerie magazines and swimwear magazines, and as I looked at these magazines, I started thinking "What a beautiful body women have."
What had once been a way to divert ** turned into a way to ogle women with an excuse.
I had turned myself gay.
But when I realized what happened, I quickly remedied it. So, in short, you can make yourself gay quite easily. It has nothing to do with harmones, or anything in your brain. All you need is to start thinking in a certain way.
(For the nameless hero, I bet his father drove him there. After all, my youngest uncle did everything in his power to become everything my father hated: an anti-war Christian who divorced and often dated some psyche-draining vampire hooker (Norma) or women of ethnicity (Bella, Rian, Maria, or Tanisha).)
As for the story itself, it hits close to home because of my uncle, and it's very well written and powerful.
But I don't think I can continue reading another story that stereotypes homosexuals. And yes, you're stereotyping them: the gay is right, the gay has the beautiful relationship and the straight one doesn't, the gay has so many hardships, the gay is abused...
9/10 for the whole thing, though.
The White
2004-04-08
ch 8,
abuseVery well-written and downright haunting story. I do wish that it had been a little longer, but I still thought it was great regardless.
King of the World
2004-03-20
ch 8, anon.
abuseI have no words to describe how much I liked your story, because I'm just like he was : a gay, closeted young man, and I'm deeply afraid too of telling my parents what I am , knowing that they ared disgusted by the very concept of the word " gay ". I specially loved the relationship between he and Nathan was lovely, I'd like to have that someday... Maybe when you're finished writing Family Disgrace II you'd consider writing about how he and Nathan started of , when they met, when He realized he was gay and loved Nathan, stuff like that, and you're chapters are too short, The story would be so much better if it had longer chapters, by the way, do you know where I can get stories like yours on the net? you know, about two gay teenagers falling in love and stuff like that. Let me say it again : I loved your story, it was great.
Liebe Sasa
2004-03-05
ch 8,
abuseBloody hell.
That was good. Hard to swallow at times, but really bloody good.
I love your writing.
~Sasa
Ice-monkee
2004-03-04
ch 8,
abusei can relate to that, my best friend and i are both Bi but when her dad suspected that he said he would throw her out if she was, and shes already been through a lot, and everytime he threatens her, i think something like that will happen, cause lets face it... this world freaking sucks... but your story is really good, one of the few good things left...
Siriusly James
2003-12-30
ch 8,
abuseI don't know what to say, but you just deserve a review for this story... I love Nathan's innocence, and I especially love the scene where they wake up and "I watched you the whole" night and "Screw you, I'm beautiful in the morning!" Nathan is just so cute!
I knew how it would end, though, having read your poem before this story, but still - it's terrible! How can you let it happen?!
Anyway, good story, you may never stop writing!
Kimi kara tegami
2003-09-27
ch 8,
abuseOh so confused...I'll have to read the epilogue a few dozen more times before I understand, but at least I understand one thing already...

This was a damn good story. Never stop writing.
Lina Inverse
2003-05-26
ch 8,
abuseWow. The first few chapters brought me to laughter, with Nathan and Rice's silliness, but I practically cried at the end. It was brilliant, honest, and emotional.

I did notice that your main character had absolutely no flaws... With a short story like this, it's kind of hard to fit them in... But I'd like to see it extended to include more detail ^_^
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