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Mulligans |  | Author: Charlie David
Publisher: Palari Publishing
Category: Book
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Pages: 250
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1928662196
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781928662198
ASIN: 1928662196
Publication Date: May 25, 2009
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Product Description
Based on the film of the same name, Mulligans is a novel about a poignant family drama with a twist. Tyler, a straight college jock, brings his best friend Chase home to stay with his family for summer vacation. The Davidson family welcomes Chase with open arms, but as the summer progresses, so does an unexpected attraction. Stacey, Tyler's Mom, tries to hold on to her family while Tyler's Dad Nathan struggles with his long-suppressed sexuality.
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 Think of this as the Director's Cut August 10, 2010
akbear (Tok, AK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book certianly goes into more detail than could be accomodated in a feature length film, and this was the author's chance to expand upon the screenplay and tweak the story a bit. At just over 200 pages of story in larger print and double spacing this is about the right length and ease of reading to be a beach book as it would fill an afternoon. Despite some of the editing errors, it is a pleasant read and a good start if he felt to continue the story into a series.
 Mulligans by Charlie David July 28, 2009
Elisa (Italy)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Mulligans, A Novel, is probably an example of when an adaptation from a movie script is better than the movie. And since the movie was good, you have an idea of how good the book is.
I liked Mulligans, the movie, but I felt real sorry for Chase, the young gay man who falls in love for his best friend's father and who, at the end of the movie, walks away from the happiness he found with that family. It was sad, even if probably true, my romantic heart was really weeping for that little boy, since the movie didn't give him any hope. In the book there is an important difference that is completely overlooked in the movie. From this moment on I will talk of the novel, not of the movie, and my remarks on the characters are with that in mind; if you like the story, mind that it's different from the movie, and that difference is centred around Chase's experience, past, present and future.
Chase is spending the summer in the lake house of his best friend and roommate Tyler. While Tyler treats Chase has his best friend and maybe as his little brother, Chase doesn't consider himself at the same level as Tyler; it's not only a financial issue, even if it can't be hide that Tyler has another and higher money availability than Chase; it's also the way Tyler approaches life: he is sure, confident and full frontal, it will probably arrive the time when Tyler will realize that life is not that easy, but not yet. Chase instead has already faced that moment; he knows that if he wants to succeed in life he has to do that all by himself, and to add question to question, he is also wondering on his sexuality. Better Chase deep inside knows that he is gay, but he is not confident, and so he has never had the courage to face that notion with himself, and consequently, with the outside world. Chase is in the closet not since he wants to hide, but since he has not the courage to open the doors of that closet. And from inside the closet, he admires Tyler, since he sees in him all that courage that he has not. The important distinction with the movie, is that, from Chase's point of view, before joining Tyler's family to the summer house, he was not hiding anything to his best friend, since he still hadn't admitted it with himself.
At the summer house, to Chase's admiration for his best friend Tyler's attitude towards life, it is now also added a little envy for his family; Chase has no real family, his dad is long time dead, and his mother is inexistent. Basically Chase is alone, and when he meets Tyler's family, mother, father and little sister, they all, as a whole, represent the forbidden fruit. True, he can also recognize that he is attracted by Tyler's father, from an aesthetical point of view, but at the same way he is attracted by Tyler: Chase has no problem to admit that he likes his best friend, and now his best friend's father, in a sexual way, but there is no way that he can consider something with them. It's far from his mind. And so, at first, if he has the idea to "steal" something from Tyler, is not a specifically desire for a man, Nathan, Tyler's father, but more for the whole family, he wants for himself the happiness he sees.
From a sexual point of view, he is instead interested in Jarod, the African American boy who is Tyler's childhood friend. And this is another point where the novel totally diverges from the movie: there is not hint of sexual relationship between Chase and Jarod in the movie, Jarod is supportive to Chase only as a friend. Instead in the novel, Jarod is a main character, since it's due to him that Chase starts to question his own sexuality and desire, and his need to find a way out of the closet. Chase and Jarod have a budding relationship whose sudden abortion cause Chase to question what he wants in life. It forces also Chase to find the courage to come out, with Tyler, with Tyler's family, with the world. As a chain reaction, Nathan, Tyler's father, who for all his life has chosen the easy path to stay inside that closed, is suddenly faced with an alternative: he can take the same path as Chase. In a way, Nathan is taken advantage of Chase, like two men in a snowstorm, Nathan is following Chase's steps on the snow, and the harder job is the one that is making Chase. On this perspective, is right that neither Nathan or Stacey blame Chase for the breaking of their fake marriage happiness, no one forced Nathan to follow Chase's steps. If in the movie, the romantic hearts are disappointed by the failure of Chase and Nathan's love story, reading the book you realize that from the beginning it wasn't a love story; truth be told, if there is a real love story in the novel, it's the one between Chase and Jarod, and from this point of view, the novel gives more hope to Chase than the movie.
All in all this is probably the first time where a novel from a movie is better than the movie, and I highly recommend to whom liked the movie, but not as it ended, to read the novel, they will be not disappointed this time.
 Pretty good...but really needed an editor July 24, 2009
F. Averick (Seattle, WA United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I enjoyed the movie "Mulligans," so I decided to buy the book. Charlie David, who also wrote the screenplay for the film and plays Chase--one of the lead characters, does a mostly good job of turning the screenpaly into a novel.
The novel--though technically told as third person narrative--really alternates its point of view, in different chapters, between the four main characters: Chase (handsome young college student), Tyler (Chase's roommate and best friend at college) and Tyler's parents--Stacey and Nathan.
The novel gets inside the head of these characters in a way a movie cannot, and it fills in details that at once make the story richer, but also--I think--make the book a little too introspective. There are several times that the book would have been better served to let the actions and words of the characters tell the story without having to examine their innermost thoughts.
This is where a good editor could have helped David. Sometimes a writer can just be too close to the story and characters and needs someone more objective to help him pull back a little.
An editor (or a proofreader at least) also could have corrected the distracting mathematical problems with the characters ages: Tyler can't be more than 20 - 21 years old; but Nathan, who says he's now 40, was 16 when Tyler was born--which would make Tyler 24. And Birdy--Tyler's younger sister--is said to be 8 years old--and also 9 years younger than Tyler...which would then make Tyler 17. Also Stacey is listed as both 40 and 42. These aren't unforgivable mistakes, but unnecesary in a 200 page professional book.
Overall the book was enjoyable, though I do prefer the film version. David's a pretty good writer and shows great potential for the future. He's also a talented actor and absolutely beautiful. I look forward to seeing what he'll do in the future.
Mulligans July 5, 2009
Geoffrey (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Mulligans , is the first novel of actor , writer and producer Charlie David. I would recommend the book without reservation to anyone regardless of orientation, as the underlying themes of acceptance and of loving people for who they are universal.
One of the first things you notice is the great attention to detail and how the story unfolds through the eyes of each of the characters and in the process gives you a much deeper insight into them that will make seeing the movie ( of the same name, that Charlie David starr's in as the character of Chase ) even more enjoyable. The book moves smoothly from one characters viewpoint to another and is beautifully written. Highly Recommended.
Good Book June 2, 2009
Alyssa Smitherman
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is definitely a book that's exciting and interesting to read. I enjoyed the characters and how realistic the situations in the book were. It was a page turner from beginning to end and I can't wait for the next one!
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