Getting It

by Alex Sanchez

Paperback, 2007

Status

Available

Call number

PZ7.S19475 G

Genres

Collections

Your library, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Publication

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (2007), Paperback, 240 pages

Description

Hoping to impress a sexy female classmate, fifteen-year-old Carlos secretly hires gay student Sal to give him an image makeover, in exchange for Carlos's help in forming a Gay-Straight Alliance at their Texas high school.

User reviews

LibraryThing member hansel714

A boy, who wants to "get it" from the girl of his dreams, asks a makeover from a gay classmate. Queer Eye for a Straight Guy, anyone? In the end, the boy learns right from wrong and how to speak up and stand up for himself. It's often touching and it portrays a realistic teenage life, full of angst

and confusion, but like The God Box, the story is a little too preachy.

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LibraryThing member graemestone

I didn't like this as much as I've liked Alex Sanchez' other books. There's a lot of repetition, exttremely short chapters, and the book just scratches the surface of the complexities so much more deeply portaiyed in other books.

LibraryThing member starlight70

Carlos want to get Roxy's attention but does not know how to do it. Under the impression that gays know how, thanks to Queer Eye TV series, Carlos approached gay Sal for help. This was particularly difficult for Carlos, growing up knowing that his father despise anything maricon and friends who

seem to be homophobic.

In return, Sal wants Carlos to help him to set up Gay-Straight Alliance in the school. Already uncomfortable to be seen in public with Sal, this request is particularly more difficult for Carlos.

Sal steps into Carlos's life and transform not only his appearance, but his view of the gays.

I am surprised I enjoyed this book more than Sanchez's other writings. I thought this book had nothing much to offer, compared his first Rainbow Boys and the sensitive The God Box. I think Alex Sanchez got daring with his generous description. However, I am also aware his description was more on boy-girl and nothing on male-male.

Still, I liked what I have read.

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LibraryThing member MichaelC.Oliveira

Written from the perspective of a male teenager, the book has us re-live the angst of getting to know ourselves and accepting others as they struggle with the same. The book may help a teenager gain a greater understanding of themselves as Carlos does spend a significant part of the book in

self-reflection. Good story, good characters, short chapters, and strong and at time blunt messages that allow the reader to arrive at the conclusions before most of the characters.
Maybe I am getting to be more of a prude as I grow older the book included a little more sex than I expected, really not all that much and straight. (if it were a movie it would receive a PG-13 rating)

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