Sunday, 14 September 2008		6
	I just finished reading A Thousand loves at nifty.org - what a wonderful story. I was totally absorbed in the characters and could not stop reading. Thank you for sharing your work. RJ

	Friday, 28 December 2007		5
	I've read The Odd Couple and A Thousand loves at nifty. I can say I like them both but the odd couple is one of the best I've ever read. So I want to read the other works of yours. sorry for my clumsy words l.h.

	Sunday, 15 July 2007		4
	Dear Andrej, I wrote to ask for a password after reading A Thousand loves, One Love on nifty (the first instalment) as I thought it would all be in your website, and I was right. I liked it very much, but then I began reading Alain's Diary (it's the second on the list alphabetically). I've just finished it, and it's marvellous, absolutely wonderful. Thought I should tell you that, though I'm sure than many others have done so too. I'll keep in touch as I work my way through them. I've read quite a few on nifty before this. Yours, Gordon

	Wednesday, 06 June 2007		3
	Dear Andrej I've read most of your stories - well, the ones available in English or French. It would be interesting to read the Italian originals Many of the stories are touching and deal with real human issues. This has a real liberating force. The love interest is more engaging than the sexual interest The treatment of crises is generally good and inventive - and there is a real enlivening of the text when the plot is rendered more complex I find the endless and repetitive sex scenes dreary and adding almost nothing. This has made me think what is at the heart of the 'turn on'. It is always some telling detail I have no difficulty with the notion of 'the turn on': I mean only that thing that attracts, excites - the gesture, some quality, some 'reminder'... It participates in the nature of the poetic. Frequently this - 'the ting' - is unexpected, is it not? We are caught unprepared. So that it is not merely a matter of type - or sexual technique, for that matter In this respect the sex scenes aren't sufficiently differentiated - and the same applies to the characters. I find many of the older characters - with their tendency to impose various moral imperatives - rather unpleasant, mean even. It is their awakening to life and possibility that is often at stake - but I wonder if it is the 'sexual giving' that is the true sign of any real development or something else. The fact that men can love each other should not come as any surprise - but what is it that we love in each other? A thousand ejaculations doesn't necessarily take anybody anywhere - mostly to tedium I endorse your position on the middle class - with its public respectability and private squalor, even its fondness for the illicit. But there is a problem where the love interest is itself constructed in these terms - as if the working class/street boy/farm boy/thief (the wild/the innocent) is the site of redemption of the unfulfilled or 'restricted' middle class man/professional/authority figure. The recuperation of an aspect of the self through the love object is the interesting theme. And it is your refusal of the refusal that is good - if my remark makes sense. I could point to many examples ... The story of the boy who talks to the boy in the coma (in "A Thosand loves, On Love") - and makes love to him - is an extreme case of the finding of the repressed or abandoned self in the other. But what to make of the older man (in "The Odd Couple") who, having lost his lover of many years standing, returns to his home city and takes up with the removalist? While I found this story of great interest this older man represents an instance of what I'm calling meanness - and an assumed self-superiority that seems hardly justified. It is the boy who, despite everything, has retained his 'aliveness', not the older man - and a moral force that is driven from within not by moral dictates or calculation For the moment, my best regards John

	Monday, 09 April 2007		2
	Hi Andrej, "A Thousand loves, One Love" is a very good story, full of interest and moves well. Your balance between gay sexual content and the story making progress is, in my view, exactly right. I wonder if it should be slightly longer because both the film director (can't get his name right) and his son Giuliano disappear from the story very abruptly never to appear again, and Giuliano never knows that his father refused to give Matteo his NZ address, and finally Giuliano moves out of the house but then disappears into thin air too, like his father. I'm left thinking "I wonder what happened to...?" But it is still a first class story. I have to admit I was reluctant about Matteo making love with an unconscious Scott when I realized where you were going. At first I thought - yikes - how is Andrej going to present this without it being gross. But as usual you did it with such tenderness & true emotion that I quickly found it okay. The integrity & intentions of your characters always stays true. Thanks Andrej & take care. John.

	Monday, 09 April 2007		1
	Hey Andrej; What a Nice Easter surprise - another of your Excellent tales! "A Thousand loves, One Love" is Beautiful beyond words! I laughed. I cried! I was saddened! I rejoiced! I usually do feel all of those emotions and more reading your writings. Thank you So much. It is a Wonderful way to start a week in Spring. Take care of yourself. Gary