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Rainbow Road

By: Alex Sanchez
Narrated by: Alston Brown
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Jason Carrillo came out to his basketball team senior year and lost his university scholarship. Now, with graduation behind him and summer ending, he's asked to speak at the opening of a gay and lesbian high school across the country. But after spending years in the closet and losing his scholarship dream, what message can he offer?

Kyle Meeks is getting ready to go to Princeton in the fall and trying to see as much as possible of his boyfriend, Jason, before they have to separate. When Jason tells him about his speaking invitation, Kyle jumps at the chance to drive across country with him. Yet he can't help worrying: Will their romance survive two weeks crammed together in a car?

Nelson Glassman is happy his best friend Kyle has found love with Jason. Now he's looking for his own true love - and hopes he might find his soul mate during the road trip. But will being the "third wheel" in a trio ruin his friendships with Kyle and Jason? During an eye-opening post-graduation summer road trip, each of the three very different boys also embarks on a personal journey across a landscape of love, sexuality, homophobia, and above all, friendship.

©2005 Alex Sanchez (P)2005 AudioGO

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A Library Story Hour Performerance?

The performance is very amature in nature. It is exceedingly over-articulated. The lilt, pacing, and sing-song nature of the performer’s voice will transport you to a community library where a teenager reads aloud to complete his community service requirement.

I do wonder if I would have enjoyed the story more if I hadn’t been distracted by the performance. A better VO actor would have at least helped to gloss over the parts of the dialogue writing that are cringe worthy.

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Drove Me Nuts

Yeah, these boys are gay. Well, one claims to be bisexual. I don't know why that needs to make them as annoying as hell and carry on in such a selfish manner. Having enjoyed the first two books I found this road trip to be both boring and annoying. There was a number of times I wanted to shout at the player when Nelson did something totally selfish or stupid, or when Kyle sulked like an 11 year old. I found them both to be gratingly immature, self centered and annoying in this book. For me, they both seemed to have taken a step backwards in the level of maturity and self interest they had in the previous books.

The narration begun to grate on me also. The number of monotone 'whoo hoos' made me completely frustrated and annoyed. Perhaps I wasn't in the mood for this book, however I just found it to be tedious and annoying.

I just didn't like this book at all. Too many things went wrong, too many arguments and disagreements and generally too much angst for me to enjoy.

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jason?

ok so im done with all 3 titles. by the way audible doesnt number than. i look at the dates on them and thats how i know what order to listen to them in. this is the last title and its 3rd in the series in case you are wondering. the stories are ok. i kind of miss jermey from book 2, but he was a bit older than the 3 boys and kind of messed thigns up between all of them. i mean from book one you have 3 boys and eventually they are obviously all or a certain persuasion, but 3 does not a normal couple make. so thats why in book 2 there had to be a jeremy. theres nothing wrong with jermey. hes kind of perfect. already ahs things laid out for him. lives with his mom and brother and goes to community college. great way to hook up and live cheaply and have a future job one day because of the college eduacation. see its perfect. but he was a bit older and i kind of found that a little bit of a red flag for me when thinking that nelson and jeremy were really goijng to work out. spolier aleert they did not work out, but they did remain friends except in book 3 jeremy isnt even a thing at all. all 3 boys graduate, they get their club started even thought they are graduating. i think ots great of them to think of the students still remaining that will need that group. so they didnt give up on getting the group started and they won at the end of book 1. jeremy got really sick in book 2 and i was seriously worried this was going to be the end of him because he is posiitive and of course the other 2 guys hate that about him. they are all seriously worried that nelson will become positive too. although he got tested and he was negative so that was good news. jeremy does not die. in book 3, this one, nelson gets sick and i thought maybe he was going to become positive and die too and i got seriously worried. but he hasnt been with anyoine since jeremy that we know of so it was a little bit of a long shot thinking that was what was going on. he ended up with food poisoning. i thought it was going to be the flu. then he was ok. i liked all the mishaps that happen usually due to nelson being kind of a loose cannon on this 3 biy trip. i mean he was a little bit of a jerk and the smoking thing drove the boys and me crazy. he ended up quitting that though so good for him. its not that easy though so only in a book does that actually happen so quickly just say youll quit and you actually do and it works. yeah right!they lost the tent poles. that was nelson. they lost the wallet. nelson again. they break the cell phone. yep nelson again. well they found the wallet in the end and they kept finding other shelter options one way or another without tent poles. and apparently in this book payphones still exist. so even though nelson is like a sore thiumb things always work out anyway because its a book and its not real life. so much more i could say or comment on or point out, but the point of this post is that for some reason through the whole 3 books i found jason to be the most unbelieivable. the books focus mostly on jason more than other 2 boys. he is the last to join the certain persuasion band wagon. but to have a girlfriend and be having sex for 2 whole years and not know something was off is just too much and too long. im not saying he should have said something from the get go, but certainly shiuld have known and said something a whole lot sooner. i felt sorry for the girlfriend and then she jiust gets over it like nothing happened after only being mad a little at first. im not a relationship fanatic, so id be cool with it and supportive too. but most if not all people are definitley not like me. she should have reacted more and made a big deal about her pain and shock. in book 3 jason is picked to speak about his experience to a new school specifically for people like these 3 boys. i have so many things to say about this. first is there really a school out there for these kinds of people or this a only in books kind of thing? i ean where was that school when i was in school? second they kind of made this sound like this has never happened before, and so the whole world finds out, hes on tv and everything, and so of course he gets picked to speak. but hello he is not the only high school student to have these experiences even as an athlete. it shouldnt make that much of a difference or be that big of a deal. so why him? but thats just the way the book is and it was the whole storyline of the book. i love road trips and loved that they threw in "on the road" by jack keurick a few times. i also loved that they were from virginia. ive lived there so when they talked about i81 and shenedoah forest i knew exactly what they were talking about. anyway like is aid i could go on and on and on. i sort of thought that because i never really believed completely in jason that maybe just maybe he would realize he isnt what he thinks he is and get nelson to speak instead. i mean he did ask nelson to speak, but he said no. so i was close, but was wrong. in the end jason speaks and he speaks well like he had planned it and actually he had no idea what he was going to say. so thats not real either. he should have planned what to say. nothing just happenes like that and you speak like youve been making speeches your whole life. but his words were perfect and it made you want to put away your disbeliefs and fall in with jason anyway. so it ends with nelson finally finding love and that for me was my "awwww" moment. you hated him so much he kept getting in the way of jason getting up close and personal with the other boy and in the end they finally do and then its like everyone lived happily ever after. jason spoke and got his alone time with his boyfriend and then nelson stays behind to stay with his newly found love. only in books do things end happily ever after.

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Kyle sucks

I really dislike Kyle in this one he’s toxic, controlling and gaslights constantly but yet the book treats him like he’s so great.

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PARISHES

Why is BJ talking about counties when Louisiana has parishes not counties! lovethe bookthough

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The Rainbow books were AWESOME

I loved this story. I loved all three Rainbow books. And I loved Kyle Jason and Nelson. I wish I had friends like them when I was in high school. I would have been so lucky to have a boyfriend like any one of them when I was in high school. But things were a lot different back then. Reading these books made me feel like I was back in high school with them.

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Wonderful book!

Loved both the book and the narrator! I felt I was nineteen again, it felt so true and genuine.

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I wish you life, love and lots of wild romance

this is absolutely one of my favorite books I love I like Sanchez and his storytelling. I have read the rainbow boys series at least five times since I was 13 years old , it never gets boring. this is a great book to throw your feet up too and just sit back and relax.

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AMAZING BOOK Wish there was more to this series.

love these books and would love to see a film series made for them. highly recommend this series!

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love this book

I have read and reread this book over and over, as well as listen to the narrative. It makes me happy and sad at the same time. Happy because Nelson finally got someone to love in the end and happy because Jason and Kyle got to find out what true love is. Sad because all three boys are going to part ways, Nelson is staying in CA with his new love, Kyle and Jason are going to different colleges, which their love will be tested again.

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