PEG BOY edition by Raymond Berube Literature Fiction eBooks
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Many unorthodox ways of life were allowed during the early days of the California Gold Rush. The demands of the times and a great influx of races forced tolerance. San Francisco became notorious for its lawlessness, its gambling casinos, and its bordellos and madams. The Barbary Coast became a part of California's history and San Francisco's heritage. The Barbary Coast was an area near the waterfront that law enforcers found almost impossible to control. Those who operated establishments there, refused to abide by the gradually encroaching law and order being established by the other parts of town. For along the Barbary Coast any vice could be bought. There also, a little-known vice guarded with great secrecy were the male houses of prostitution. Some of the more clandestine operations offered young boys. Most of these boys had few means of survival other than their wits and bodies. Known as peg-houses, the places provided young boys to those who were able to meet the extraordinary prices. These houses were often operated by unscrupulous and ruthless men who provided the boys with drugs, thereby chaining them by their addictions. These could become hopeless addicts unable to function as anything but subservient slaves to their masters.An international slave trade supplied these houses with boys who were enticed or kidnapped from all over the world. Peg-houses were common in the Orient. The custom was brought to the West by seamen who had grown fond of such pleasures. Boys were trained to service customers by wearing a wooden peg of gradually increasingly sizes. They would be offered for selection while sitting on stools that displayed the properly sized peg protruding from the bottom to indicate the size that each boy had been trained to accommodate. This is the story of Santiago Cali, one such boy.
PEG BOY edition by Raymond Berube Literature Fiction eBooks
Surprisingly, I ended up liking this book, and even go as far as giving it 5 starts. But, let's be clear here:1) This book has highly detailed depictions of sex between minors with minors and adults; lots of times without consent (aka: rape)
2) This books is self-published; So, some typos pipe up here and there, but nothing tremendous.
3) It is literature; fantasy, based on the acknowledge of a historic fact: "peg-boys", and child sex-slaves in general through history.
If anything of the above 3 bugs you, then simply do NOT buy this book. If you do though, understand the difference between reality and fiction, and you are curious to find out how someone can use the child-sex-slave material and use in an historical novel, and DO realize that a few misspells and typos may occur, then I say this book will probably satisfy you.
It's an adventure of a young boy who gets (himself) into the child-sex market of the mid-19th century in San Francisco. He'll get a hard time, but will come out victorious, having paid a price though; as we all know that that's how life works. You'll learn some interesting facts about things in the mid-19th century and have a clearer understanding of why the west was (and still is) called the "Wild" West...
All in all; it's just that: An adventure with sex, drugs and fortune with main starts underage boys. If you like fiction and don't seek for Dostoyevsky-like "high-end-literature", there's a high chance you'll like this book.
MY humble opinion, of course...
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PEG BOY edition by Raymond Berube Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I liked the story but the manuscript could stand to be more closely edited. I am not so naïve as to not know such things did happen and are likely still happening but I would not have thought that the market for such perverse sex was a large as the book would have you believe. Perhaps since the story is set in the time of slow sailing ships and females were not available to the sailors for long periods of time the incidence of this perversion was greater than I would think normal. That people of any time could treat children in such a cruel manner is truly disturbing.
A very well written novel. The story of a young boy from Peru having to sell his body to live is not always pleasant but was told as it might of really happened back in the early days of this country during the gold rush. The subject matter was sometimes hard to imagine as being the way things were done even if based upon fact. The truth is often hard to accept, but in the end the novel is well done.
I am not all that familiar with the historical Barbary Coast, though I did know it was known for lawlessness during the gold rush era. This book details the sex trade as experienced through a young boy during that time. Though this is a work of fiction, I have no doubt that it is based upon what truly happened during that time. It was heartbreaking, but the ending gives hope for at least a few of the boys. This is not a light read, but it is worth reading.
There are plenty of technical issues to be found in this but I'm willing to overlook them for the sake of the story.
One big issue here is that it's the narrator that gives you the insight of the tale - we never really get to know these characters in that they never really speak for themselves. You can try to figure them out by reviewing their discussions or by considering what we're told they thought about something or someone but it runs thin in such a long, long, story!
I'm giving it three stars because a lot of the story stays with you and the characters also but over all I felt the writing was stiff and the story was a bit much.
We survive a slow start and a mid section that is interesting, though poorly guided, and a finish that is foreseeable, rushed and disappointing.
It is not a smooth read and I would only recommend this to someone I believed would appreciate it as research for their own project.
Although this book appears to present itself as historical fiction, there is really very little reality base to this novel. Santiago is the book's main character, a 12 year old boy from Peru, who ventures to California with his father during the California gold rush of 1848. However, it seems that
author Berube really had an older boy in mind, since Santiago is described as very largely endowed and having sexual repertoires more in line with a man in his early 20's. Also unrealistic is the fact that the novel seems to suggest that every grown male from the ship captains to the local restaurant owner, is sexually interested in boys. With these issues accepted, the book is quite a sexual romp and should not be read by those who are feint of heart. There is also a good dose of violence sprinkled in for good measure. The author's language is sometimes stilted, suggesting that he may be foreign-born. All of this accepted, the book is otherwise an interesting read and the reader is quite spell-bound to find out how Santiago will survive in this harrowing drama. The ending was well-written and satisfying.
I liked the story, both the sexy parts and how the lovers overcome obstacles to live happily togther. The ugly parts are historical and need not be glossed over. The chronological and geographical bloopers are irritating and detract from enjoying the story. The date the ship sails is before the date Santi arrives at the port. There are a couple other similar errors. The geography described of the gold rush town of Columbia is all wrong - I live nearby. Look at a map when writing about the Mother Lode and GreatValley!
Surprisingly, I ended up liking this book, and even go as far as giving it 5 starts. But, let's be clear here
1) This book has highly detailed depictions of sex between minors with minors and adults; lots of times without consent (aka rape)
2) This books is self-published; So, some typos pipe up here and there, but nothing tremendous.
3) It is literature; fantasy, based on the acknowledge of a historic fact "peg-boys", and child sex-slaves in general through history.
If anything of the above 3 bugs you, then simply do NOT buy this book. If you do though, understand the difference between reality and fiction, and you are curious to find out how someone can use the child-sex-slave material and use in an historical novel, and DO realize that a few misspells and typos may occur, then I say this book will probably satisfy you.
It's an adventure of a young boy who gets (himself) into the child-sex market of the mid-19th century in San Francisco. He'll get a hard time, but will come out victorious, having paid a price though; as we all know that that's how life works. You'll learn some interesting facts about things in the mid-19th century and have a clearer understanding of why the west was (and still is) called the "Wild" West...
All in all; it's just that An adventure with sex, drugs and fortune with main starts underage boys. If you like fiction and don't seek for Dostoyevsky-like "high-end-literature", there's a high chance you'll like this book.
MY humble opinion, of course...
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