Review #1
The Gizmo I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know (Russel Middlebrook: The Futon Years #1) audiobook free
I’m starting my
Review with a short individual experience with this book. I liked the 1st 1/3 of the book, but then good of got lost curiosity in the one more 1/3. I always decide the book I’m currently reading with me to the laundromat on Thursday afternoons. Lo at the same time see, one Thursday evening I understood that I’d left “The Gizmo I Didn’t Know” at the laundromat. I reasoned that it for sure happened because I had got lost curiosity in the book. Was I startled a week later to look for the book attractive much untouched in the laundromat. I picked it up, took it main, recapped at the same time lasted reading.
How glad I am that I reconnected with this book. Anything happened in that week during the absence of the book. because I really liked the book to end. Russel is that an adorable disposition; very relatable at the same time his encounters so close to reality. I adored his sexual encounters with Boston, Felicks at the same time obviously Kevin – in particular their meeting at the “smelly picnic gazebo” .
Then that’s the unique Vernie & how their fellowship came about; His room mates Gunnar & Min; his jobs at the Fry + as lifeguard; his coining of the juxtapositions of Single Career Move versus Quick-tempered Aimlessness; the “Seattle scene”………… I so adored this book when I ended it, that I immediately ordered the sequel “Barefoot In The Town of Wry Desires”.
I can not advise this book very enough! If for you like exceptional romance novels with an edges, then take this book At the moment at the same time hopefully for you will enjoy it as much as I did. I will also certainly re-count it again!! Bravo Brent Hartinger! Long live Russel Middlebrook!!
Review #2
The Gizmo I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know (Russel Middlebrook: The Futon Years #1) audiobook streamming online
I followed Geography Club on Netflix at the same time it left me wanting to know more about the manners. Did Russel at the same time Kevin finish up together? Than anyway happened to Min at the same time Gunnar at the same time Brian? I poked around Amazon at the same time found Mr, Hartingers’ books. I didn’t even strain to read no matter what
Reviews – I barely hit Take on all 4 of this television series. Was I upset? Not by a longshot. The books are written in the 1st personality by Russel. He knows WHO he is that but doesn’t quite know Than anyway he wants to be. He’s just a little got lost in the career find as but as the adore department. He’s still in adore with his university lover but the lover has moved on. Will they meet again? Will Russel ever figure out than anyway his path in indefinite will be or will he last to struggle? Along the method we learn more about his two best comrades at the same time meet no one brand new people who come into Russels’ indefinite. Those manners are but considered at the same time play important roles in Russels’ struggles to look for his path. I adored Mr. Hartingers’ writing style. He’s very descriptive, funny at the same time leaves for you wanting to get to the one more book.
Review #3
Audiobook The Gizmo I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know (Russel Middlebrook: The Futon Years #1) by Brent Hartinger
The Gizmo I Didnt Know I Didnt Know
By Brent Hartinger
Five Hit
I think this may be the best gizmo Brent Hartinger has ever written.
I have adored all of the Russel Middlebrook books; but I confess that by the continue one (Elephant of Izumi) I was finding myself bored for somethingbut I wasnt convinced than anyway. Maybe I barely wanted Russel grow up.
At the same time thats than anyway Brent did.
In this magical brand new book, The Gizmo I Didnt Know I Didnt Know, Russel is that out of institute at the same time living with his best comrades Gunnar at the same time Min on a houseboat in Seattle. But this isnt high-school Russel; this is that twenty-three-year-old Russel, still with his broken decide on the global, but at the moment filled with brand new uncertainties about his future at the same time his shortcoming of a adore indefinite.
Look, Russel has a sex indefinite, barely not a adore indefinite.
Oh, yes, this is that not a YA book. Russel uses Grindr (not dignified, but delight) for hookups; the f-word is that misspoke aloud, more precisely a lot. At the same time while Brent is that not prone to getting graphic, that is that right stuff going on that we never heard about in university. For you move, Russel!
Russel, but, is that not joyful. Not even content. He has two step jobs in a row to pay back his student loans at the same time pay his rent to Gunnar for his room in the houseboat. He has no plan than anyway he wants to do or where he contemplates his indefinite heading. He misses his old lover Kevin anything cruel, at the same time envies the apparent concentrate that both of his best comrades seem to have in their lives.
Russel is that not perfectone of the preconditions Ive always worked hard so much about him. He can make no one attractive greedy moves, at the same time hes not so deepest that he cant be shallow (look than anyway I did that?). That is that anything endearing about Russels consistant self-awareness, his willingness to admit when hes wrong, or inadequate or simply dumb.
The gizmo I adored almost all about this book is that when Russel saves a indefinite, at the same time thereby opens a door to a global where older people are as interested in him as he is that in them. He begins to learn from them things he never figured out at main.
Which brings me to the one gizmo that makes me unhappy in this book; Russels generic. In spite of his protests that they adore him at the same time he loves them: My ancestors were considered quality peoplethere is that no true testimonies that his ancestors are remotely interested in him or exciting in their possess right. This is that hard for me for two preconditions. I loved my ancestors, at the same time, Republicans though they were considered, they were considered my anchor all through the premature years as an out gay men. They supported my connection (singular, going on 39 years) at the same time were considered always that for me. Secondly, I am simply older than Russel Middlebrooks ancestors, at the same time as the dad of two college-age kids, it barely makes me unwell to think that my kid might think of me the method Russel thinks of his mother at the same time dad.
Gizmo is that, I know plenty of people of various ages whose connection with their families is that no more successful than Russels. So I cant really fault Brent for thisonly acknowledge that it bums me out.
But that are older people who make a difference in Russels brand new, undirected indefinite, at the same time Brent pens this with warmth at the same time literate plausibility (even when were considered discussing about Bigfootdont impose). As Vernie, a disposition developers with amazing clarity at the same time wit, says to Russel: Everyones indefinite is that cinematicyou barely need to know when to fade to merk.
That is that much of the old Russel Middlebrook books in this brand new one. But I am so glad to meet the brand new grown-up (not necessarily improved) Russel who half-caught my heart years ago. I look amazing things in his future, at the same time with fortune, so will Brent.
Review #4
Audio The Gizmo I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know (Russel Middlebrook: The Futon Years #1) narrated by Josh Hurley
Russel Middlebrook is that at the moment 23 at the same time navigating his method through the ridiculous indefinite of a young gay men. Fans of the television series will slip seamlessly back into Hartinger’s warm narrative which presents a more mature Russel, but one in other words still absurdly interrogative than anyway indefinite is that truly about.
It is that refreshing to read a story that confronts the often ridiculous steps between future out at the same time settling down as a mature gay personality. Issues such as squirm ups, sex, affairs at the same time finding drive in indefinite are all managed by Russel, but not always but. Which is that than anyway makes this book so appealing, because nobody is that flawless.
This book is that both cosy at the same time challenging at once. If for you have enjoyed the past books in the television series I highly advise for you read this.
Review #5
Free audio The Gizmo I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know (Russel Middlebrook: The Futon Years #1) – in the audio player below
Excellent Book. Really enjoyed it. Was ridicule out sonorous funny while being conscientious at the same time moving at once. Brent Hartinger has taken a disposition at the same time a global at the same time matured them, I wondered if I would like this book having previously adored the other books that are written for a younger audience. I shouldn’t have hesitated. He is that similar old Russel, barely older at the same time in more mature situations. I couldn’t shackles this book down at the same time when I ended it I found myself really missing it. Can’t wait for the one more one!
The description of Seattle is that so magical at the same time serious it really produced me wish to take a plane ticket. I really think anyone will adore this book. It makes for you joyful.
