Tales of the City 2 (Tales of the City Series) - More Tales Of The City

Another great read from this series! I have fallen in love with all the characters and hope there is more in the future after the last one. If he keeps pumping them out, I will keep reading them! They are like looking into a window at your disfunctional famuly.

I had read these vignettes many years ago. What a joy to re-read them! I'm more familiar with San Francisco now, and can relate to many of the places mentioned in the book. I love the characters and how their lives inter-twine.

I love this series of books but this particular Harper Perennial reprint is the worst quality I think I've ever seen. The text is so fuzzy it hurts to read, I had to put it down before finishing a page.

In pre-AIDS San Francisco, Armistead Maupin crafted a magical little world on a street he named Barbary Lane. A well-defined cast of characters experience Life, all under the watchful eye of the enchanting Anna Madrigal. Once you read one book, you'll want to read the entire series.

A wonderful continuation of the story that leads us from the late 1970's to the 1980's. Armistead is a master of blending just enough reality into the fiction to make the believable. As always, the interaction between the residents of 28 Barbary Lane warms the heart and reminds of that our closest family is not always our biological one.

I remember enjoying the TV adaptation, with a very young Laura Linney. Purchased this for Kindle for a recent trip. Not too far into I decided I wouldn't waste any more time on such boredom!!! Have DELETED it from my Kindle.

This series of books is one of the most captivating set of books I have ever had the pleasure to read. I would put down one book and then quickly pick the next book in the series up and voraciously read it from cover to cover!

I liked the first book, and enjoyed this sequel. Of course, you have to get over the almost endless "coincidences" that occur to move the plot along. However, the original characters grow on you even more, and it leaves one looking forward to further "Tales."

I downloaded this book on my flight to San Francisco hoping it would add to the excitement for my vacation. It did just that. My love affair with the city was only renewed and enhanced as I visited many of the places in the book. This is a book for anyone who loves a good character study. These folks
are SO relatable even 30+ years later.

I have heard good things about this series. Now living in San Francisco I wanted to gain more depth of understanding on the city and its development. I didn't really like or connect to any of the characters however and found them shallow. What a shame.

I got the Kindle edition because you never know when you might need a dose of Mouse and MaryAnn on the road.

A great story, great characters, well plotted, and a romance between older people (gasp!). Groundbreaking in showing that people in their 60s can fall in love too.

I appreciated the setting of the plot being in San Francisco a city that has always been one of my favorites. The characters contained a few surprises some believable and some not relatable at all which left me with a feeling that the author was just trying to bring the word count up.

Great, fast-paced story about a young midwestern woman who moves to San Francisco in the seventies. Lots of gay characters described in a positive way. The characters are easy to empathize with. Most of the characters are likeable, but some are troubled and hard to like. All kinds of insights into what it was like living in San Francisco back in the day. Easy to read, and I found it very enjoyable. Will read the rest of the series.

This is a classic examination of the fluid scene of San Francisco in the late 1970s -- with gay, straight and transsexual men and women organizing their lives around each other, many secrets being progressively revealed (and some kept for the sequels), improbable ways in which some characters meet other characters we had already been introduced to in a different context, and a sarcastic take on the life of the socialites who cling to their privileges and a disappearing society.
The book is mostly told through fast-paced dialog between the characters, sometimes a little hard to follow (on the 10th repartee, you may not quite follow who is saying what) and is sometimes too clever -- no one is quite _that_ smart all the time. It sounds like this was written with a stage version in mind, and it did become a TV miniseries. The style is somewhat reminiscent of Noel Coward. It makes for a lot of fun.