Armistead Maupin's new book is Tales of the City sequel

[lumberingbear]

Armistead Maupin has a new book coming out next Tuesday (6/12/07). It is titled "Michael Toliver Lives".

The book brings us up to date on Michael (Mouse) Toliver. Mouse is now 55 years old and going strong. Many of the characters from the "Tales of the City" series will appear in the book.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1630007963.html#comments


I really enjoyed "Tales of the City". I read each one as they were published, starting in 1978. I am thrilled that Mr Maupin is giving us another peak at his beloved characters.

[Iris]

1. Cool! I bought all the Tales in one book when I was on vacation last year.

Now I can read them through and look forward to another!

[David Zephyr]

2. I read everything Armistead Maupin writes. "Maybe the Moon" is my favorite.

He writes, I read. It's that simple.

[lumberingbear]

3. I have read all of them also.

I wish he was a little more prolific. Of course, that's what we want all are favorite authors to be. ;)

[David Zephyr]

4. Tales of the City, thankfully, was dispensed over years.

What was your opinion of The Night Listener?

Or, my favorite, Maybe the Moon?

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

5. So I just finished it....I laughed I cried

it was just amazing.

[David Zephyr]

6. Well, I finally got around to reading "Michael Toliver Lives".

It was good to have an "update" on everyone. Armistead is such a good writer, I wish he "put out" more.

This is a must for any fans of "Tales".

[tbyg52]

7. It is fantasticl to have a new book

The trouble with rereading the original series so many times is that you eventually get it memorized, so you don't get the wonderful laughs of surprise and recognition anymore. But you still get the wonderful stories and characters.

[xchrom]

8. i've already read it -- and it's very good.

it's no where near as good as the original -- but what i like is the exploration of gay men in the post epidemic times -- and that they are older.

he does a great job of exploring familial complexities and a great examination of the lives and families that we build outside of our biological ones.

there are deep issues there -- not deeply explored but still touched on.

[Occulus]

9. My, my, my.

Maupin isn't pulling any punches, is he? From the link:

On the first page, Michael runs into a man on the street he hasn't seen in almost two decades. He doesn’t remember the man's face. "What I remembered--all I remembered after nineteen years--was his dick. I remembered how its less-than-average length was made irrelevant by its girth. It was one of the thickest I'd ever seen, with a head that flared like a caveman's club. Remembering him was a good deal harder. Nineteen years is too long a time to remember a face."

:spray:

Oh dear God. I must read this one.

:rofl: