When You Were Me Robert Rodi Essentials edition by Robert Rodi Literature Fiction eBooks
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At 53, Jack Ackerly is sitting on top of the world. Thanks to a lifetime of hard work and strategic business deals, he's rich, retired, and set for life. Only trouble is... he can't help regretting the wild oats he never sowed. At 26, Corey Szaslow has been living the life of Jack Ackerly's fantasies a never-ending round of bars, parties, and one-night-stands. Only trouble is.. he can't help regretting the dead-end future that's ahead of him. If only Jack and Corey could trade places! Enter a brilliant (if rather dithering) witch named Francesca, who helpfully places Jack's mind in Corey's body, and Corey's in Jacks—and each considers his problems solved. But they soon discover that inhabiting each other's bodies is a hell of a lot easier than living each other's lives. Uproariously funny, unexpectedly moving, and uncannily insightful about the arc of a gay man's life, When You Were Me was the culmination of Robert Rodi's exploration of gay archetypes when it was first published in 2007. It's finally back in print... and like Jack and Corey, enjoying a whole new life of its own.
When You Were Me Robert Rodi Essentials edition by Robert Rodi Literature Fiction eBooks
Two quick notes on this Kindle version: May 9/12. At 49%, change "instead of picking out flowers be picked up the florist" to "instead of picking out flowers he picked up the florist".Also at 81%, change "was all he said as she shook Corey's hand" to "was all he said as he shook Corey's hand".
There should be somewhere to report this other than the review page.
Anyway,
Loved this book.
Rodi has often been called "Beach Reading" or "Light", I call him relatable. If you've read something heavy or you have something going on in your life, you can step in to a Rodi book and have a brief vacation without leaving your home.
This book has a great premise, I couldn't wait to read it. A young gay man changes bodies with an older gay man.
There was a long set up to the body swap but I enjoyed the build up and finding out about the characters. I couldn't put this book down, I loved the witch I wanted more of her. I'm right in between the ages of the two characters, one is 26 and the other 53 and I could relate to both.
Rodi is renowed for making his character's chaste, and I felt he pushed the boat out a bit farther here, even if the book has no sex scenes, there was some light eroticism.
A fun story, a satisying if overly complex ending and I loved this story.
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When You Were Me Robert Rodi Essentials edition by Robert Rodi Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I have to admit if this wasn't at a half price bookstore I may have never picked it up. It's a tired premise, but the blurb and cover design looked promising. It began well...I thought it would be quite a funny book. By half way it seemed to me as if the author needed to fill space in order to make this novel over 400 pages and hardbound worthy. I struggled with complete boredom and a serious lack of determination to finish it. I'm very glad I did not pay full price for it. Though there were some good moments and a few giggles it just felt like the same old spin on a storyline that's maybe been done too many times to feel fresh.
I'm an author who writes similar stories so when I realized this was my kind of story I jumped on it. I loved the story and felt a compulsion to keep picking up this book. Even though I was quite busy I finished it in a few days. To have a story about romance without romance and about gay life without sex is hard to do. He did a beautiful job. It's a story about people who want a life different from their own and dare take a shortcut. I'll be reading more of this author's works. "When You Were Me" was the first of his works I have read.
At 53, Jack Ackerly has a life that many would envy. He sold his public relations firm for a fortune several years ago, making him independently wealthy and able to do pretty much anything he wants. But what he really wants is most of his years back to do over. Having always been busy with studies and work, Jack missed the supposedly "wild years" as a young gay man. He had been in a relationship with Harry, nine years his junior, for over twenty years, until Harry left him to find someone younger and more flexible in outlook. Every ache and pain, every gray hair, the news that his younger sister is now a grandmother, the realization that the gay dating scene is geared only to athletic 20-somethings, even his therapist's diagnosis that he just needs to stop feeling sorry for himself ... all of these things make Jack desperate to find a way to recapture his youth. Francesca, an eccentric "fusion witch" he consults thinks there may be a way.
Enter 26 year old Cory Szaslo, unemployed and about to get thrown out of his apartment, who realizes that his years of drug use and constant partying in his younger days have pretty much doomed him to a lifetime of boring minimum wage jobs, failed relationships and a constant battle to survive. He wishes he had his short adult life to do over again, but realizes that isn't going to happen. If only there was some way he could trade this life in for one that wasn't so difficult.
Upon running into Cory (literally, he hits him with his car while daydreaming about being young again), Jack offers him a unique "business arrangement" trading bodies. Francesca believes that a spell can put Jack's mind in Cory's body, and vice versa. To make the arrangement pay off for Cory, Jack proposes that they would trade lives as well. Cory would become Jack, with his luxury condo and all of his money, assets and contacts, while Jack would live Cory's humble life.
To both of their surprises, the spell works, and they go their separate ways. Jack (now Cory) initially tries to party like the 26 year old his body tells him he is, but finds that his maturity and experience makes the experience get old very quickly. Cory (now as Jack) tries to cope with Jack's severe allergies, tries to go on a workout regime to tone up Jack's otherwise-healthy body, and tries to step into Jack's life with his acquaintances that Jack had briefed him on. Just when both are thinking this might not be as easy as they had imagined, Harry becomes a part of both of their lives, for Jack (in Cory's body) as a pickup at a restaurant, and for Cory (in Jack's body) when Harry leaves his younger lover and wants to come back to him. Can the spell be reversed, and put them back in their own bodies?
After having been a huge fan of Rodi's tongue-in-cheek gay novels (from 1991's "Fag Hag" to 2002's "Bitch Goddess"), I was overjoyed at the announcement of his new book, and it was well worth waiting for. As usual, Rodi spins his story and characters with great depth and an satirical wit, with a underlying message that strikes a chord with gay readers. It is a wry commentary on the gay male obsession with youth (Both Jack and Cory regret their "younger days" are behind them!) and how our real and "extended" family becomes a vital part of our lives. An engaging, intelligent book, which I rate five HUGE BOLD stars out of five! Don't miss it!
Rodi is back with his new novel after quite a break but he brings back all the good and bad parts of his writing. He is witty and funny, he is able to make a head start but then... it doesn't all go on that well. His characters are not always convincing, the story line depends too much on coincidence and magic (Yes, I know you can't switch bodies without magic but it can be done better! At least in books.) to be credible. Social criticism is quite shallow here and I missed strong women (and not so strong women) from the earlier novels.
In short - not exactly a must-have and if you are still in love with Fag Hag and Kept Boy it may be something of a disappointment but you won't know until you've tried. If this is the first Rodi the purchase of which you are contemplating, I would suggest one of the earlier ones, which incidentally may not be that easy as they are all out of print for a while.
Two quick notes on this version May 9/12. At 49%, change "instead of picking out flowers be picked up the florist" to "instead of picking out flowers he picked up the florist".
Also at 81%, change "was all he said as she shook Corey's hand" to "was all he said as he shook Corey's hand".
There should be somewhere to report this other than the review page.
Anyway,
Loved this book.
Rodi has often been called "Beach Reading" or "Light", I call him relatable. If you've read something heavy or you have something going on in your life, you can step in to a Rodi book and have a brief vacation without leaving your home.
This book has a great premise, I couldn't wait to read it. A young gay man changes bodies with an older gay man.
There was a long set up to the body swap but I enjoyed the build up and finding out about the characters. I couldn't put this book down, I loved the witch I wanted more of her. I'm right in between the ages of the two characters, one is 26 and the other 53 and I could relate to both.
Rodi is renowed for making his character's chaste, and I felt he pushed the boat out a bit farther here, even if the book has no sex scenes, there was some light eroticism.
A fun story, a satisying if overly complex ending and I loved this story.
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