The Otto Digmore Difference

De: Brent Hartinger

Narrado por: Michael Crouch

“Road trip!”

Otto Digmore is a 26-year-old gay guy with dreams of being a successful actor, and he's finally getting some attention as a result of his supporting role on a struggling sitcom. But he's also a burn survivor with scars on half his face, and all indications are that he's just too different to ever find real Hollywood success.

Now he's up for an amazing new role that could change everything. Problem is, he and his best friend Russel Middlebrook have to drive all the way across the country in order to get to the audition on time.

It's hard to say which is worse: the fact that so many things go wrong, or that Russel, an aspiring screenwriter, keeps comparing their experiences to some kind of road trip movie.

There's also the fact that Otto and Russel were once boyfriends, and Otto is starting to realize that he might still have romantic feelings for his best friend.

Just how far will Otto go to get the role, and maybe the guy, of his dreams?

Author Brent Hartinger first introduced the character of Otto Digmore in 2005, in his Lambda Award-winning books about Russel Middlebrook. Back then, Otto was something pretty unusual for YA literature: a disabled gay character.

Now, more than a decade later, Otto is grown up and finally stepping into the spotlight on his own. The Otto Digmore Difference, the first book in a new stand-alone series for adults, is about much more than the challenges of being "different." It's also about the unexpected nature of all of life's journeys, and the heavy price that must be paid for Hollywood fame.

But more than anything, it's a different kind of love story, about the frustrating and fantastic power of the love between two friends.

Praise for Brent Hartinger:

“Hits the narrative sweet spot." (NPR's All Things Considered)

"Downright refreshing." (USA Today)

"Touching and realistic...hilarious." (Kirkus Reviews)

©2017 Brent Hartinger (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

Exceptional

I’ve just finished my first reading/ listening. I’ll go back through it again as I always do with something I like. Characters, dialogue and
narration was superb.

Slightly Disappointed

I have read all the books except for one in the Russell Middlebrook series and I loved all the books. The only problem I had with this one was the scene with the black truck; it was the typical narrative of a straight person trying to gay bash. The overall storyline, to me was about breaking stereotypes, but this part was just another stereotype and did not seem to fit in with the rest of the story. Other scenarios depicted did not turn out in a stereotypical way, why did this one? I just found it to be disappointing.

Otherwise, this is a good listen and the narrator is excellent.

Great Story, Great Listen

I purchased this title blindly without giving much thought to the description. It wasn't until I was a few chapters in that I realized the characters had carried over from a previous Hartinger novel.
This was a great story and not your typical gay romance novel. I could have done without the final romance twist but obviously that wasn't the focus of the book.

The best compliment I can give to gay fiction is, this book would still have been a good read if the characters weren't gay. Harder to identify with but still a good book.

Oh yes!

Loved it. Definitely will make you re-think and evaluate options and priorities in you life.

Better than expected..

The story was so much more than I was expecting. I expected it to fizzle out within the first couple of chapters but it didn’t. No hot sex but a good story line… one that allowed me to see the world through someone else’s eyes from a perspective that I had never considered. Very sobering..