Bobby Dalton was raised by a single mother, and had seven sisters. He understood what women needed. He didn't plan to become a man sought out by more than a dozen women. He didn't even plan to lose his virginity, when it happened. But Tilly Johnson changed his life.
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Genre: Erotica
Sex Contents: Some Sex
Tags: Ma/Fa, Teenagers, Consensual, Heterosexual, Cheating, First, Oral Sex, Petting, Pregnancy
Review by orangeade [other reviews by orangeade]
Reviewed:
I really don't like the title of Lubrican's "The Making of a Gigolo" series.
The word conjures up images of unctuous continentals with thin moustaches, or slicked-back layabouts sitting by the pool and resting up after a night of seeing to the sexual wants of wealthy divorcees 40 years their senior. And neither of those images matches up with Bobby Dalton, Lubrican's resourceful young man from the Heartland, who knows how things work and how to fix them, particularly where women are concerned.
I just had to get that out of the way, since the title is just about the only thing I don't love about this series.
"Gigolo" may not be the best thing that Lubrican has ever written; after all, the series was posted during the winter of 2007-08, and the author's work just continues to get better. But it's probably his greatest literary enterprise. It's like a quilt, each new volume representing a patch with a new female character, but it's all stitched together with the ongoing storylines of previous chapters.
Bobby is a baby-boomer, the first child born to Mirriam Dalton before her husband went to fight in the Korean conflict. In his father's absence, Bobby ends up with seven sisters, compliments of Joe, a soft-spoken itinerant handyman. But Bobby is an example of nurture over nature: although he is the only one of the clan who isn't Joe's offspring, the older man becomes the younger's mentor. Before exiting the tale, Joe teaches Bobby how to fix just about anything, and at some cosmic level, he also seems to pass on the ability to understand and deal with the wants and needs of the fairer sex.
By the time Bobby reaches manhood, he's helping to run the family farm and working around town as a jack-of-all-trades. That brings him into contact with a number of women who are unhappy on one level or another, setting him off on an interesting path.
Like many of Lubrican's tales, "Gigolo" is set in middle America (in this case the fictional town of Granger, Kansas), and that's perfect for this series. Although set over a decade from the '60s to the '70s, the rhythms of small-town life would seem just as appropriate for the '40s or '50s. Even though the country is going through social upheaval, those new attitudes usually work their way from the coasts inland over time, so even as Vietnam and the sexual revolution are issues, it also seems appropriate that a woman having a child out of wedlock would be scandalous in a small-town society, and that the idea of cunnilingus or even being taken from behind would be both shockingly exotic and exciting to women whose previous sexual partners have left them less than satisfied.
Setting that aside, Bobby is a fairly timeless hero, a gentle soul who tries to bring happiness into the lives of the unhappy women he encounters, based on what he sense are their needs. And he's not a one-note performer; he's not adverse to pushing the envelope with a particular women, even if she doesn't realize that's what she desires in the moment. The key, of course, is that Bobby always turns out to be right.
You'd never categorize "Gigolo" as a stroke piece, but one of the hallmarks of the series is how much more intensely erotic many of the scenes are than a lot of much more graphic fare. Lubrican takes us inside the head and heart of each of Bobby's partners and expresses their flowering in ways so emotional -- and even poetic -- that it's bound to get a rise out of the reader.
The danger with this kind of a multiple-volume approach is that the story could devolve into a simple anthology of loosely related stories. But Lubrican avoids that by, in the end, examining just what kind of a life with which someone who is loved by many -- but is considered marriage material by almost no one -- could end up. Bobby has to go through painful self-examination, as well as the experience of many important people in his life moving on, before . . . well, that would be telling, wouldn't it?
To write a review of "The Making of a Gigolo (1) - Tilly Johnson" is like writing a report on the acorn when you've got your eye on the tree it spawned. The first couple of entries in the 16-volume set actually might come across as a bit skimpy, but devotion to the series offers a great payoff. The story really hits its stride with "TMOAG (8) - Felicity Chumley" and just keeps getting better and better through the conclusion. None of these stories are standalones, which may hurt accessibility a bit, but the richness of the series from start-to-finish makes the journey a pleasure to take.
And for those readers who enjoy Lubrican's penchant for writing female characters who end up in the family way . . . let's just say that this story is the Mother lode.
Review by yialanliu [other reviews by yialanliu]
Reviewed:
This is the first story of 16 total which combined is the real story. Because of this, while this review is attached to the first story, be warned that I am reviewing the entire series.
The story starts with a great background especially if you can believe the adage "The apple never falls far from the tree" when it comes to nurturing(I know he's not related to Joe) but I do believe he was influenced that way.
As you go through the 16 vignettes you will see the main character grow. Although not all of his choices are correct, there is definitely growth in his decisions. Keep in mind that while they are vignettes, they are linked vignettes where one can almost assume that it picks off from the next more similar to a memoir although it is written in a vignette form because of the linkages.
My only minor gripe is the realism. I personally find the methods of the main character to be slightly unrealistic and the believability to be off. Do not count me as someone who needs to have everything real, just believable (Read "The Collar Around the Heart" as an example of an interesting situation that at the same time seems believable).
All in all, this is a great story and the name Lubrican should stand on its own as he is a great author.
Review by fuzzywuzzy [other reviews by fuzzywuzzy]
Reviewed: - (Review Updated: )
Bobby is an interesting young man, in that he is the only male in the henhouse, occupied by no less than eight sisters all younger than he.
His mother loved babies, but unfortunately her husband never came home from the war. But the travelling hobo, Joe, helped most of the married women whose husbands were away in a weird country called Korea, and these poor women were left frustrated in extremis. And when the handyman left Town, soon after there was a population explosion which divided the town the have-nots versus the haves. The haves being those with Joe's babies ... If you get my drift!
Now Bobby as he grew up into a healthy black haired blue eyed hunk in the seventies found that he had the natural bent of being able to repair almost anything; yep, even the frustrated ladies who really didn't know they were frustrated! Now with that expertise he also was extremely fecund, and left a trail of babies in his wake, welcomed by these aforementioned ladies.
So, in this first episode, Tilly's husband is a para, wheelchair bound, and would welcome a baby into his life gladly. So Bobby does, and Tilly gets, and Jake gets out of his physical doldrums, etc., etc.,
This is the first story in the series, and both Lubrican and I suggest reading them in sequence, please!
