Customer Reviews
a classic !! - By: Peter Meanwell-ralph, 28 Feb 2004 
Significant Others is just one in the Tales of the City series of books. The whole 'Tales' series is absolutely amazing & you'll find it difficult to put them down once you've started reading.
The chapters are very short which means that these books are perfect for reading on the tube or when you have only a short time to read in one sitting. Each chapter will generallly focus on a specific character in the book of which there are several & these are followed throughout the whole series.
Do start with 'Tales of the City' book first, as the books do run in sequence.
The first three books have been made into films & part of them were screened on television several years ago. However the DVD's are available on amazon.com (the american amazon website) but only in region 1 unfortunately. Many DVD players do now play region 1 but need to check on your machine first before ordering them from amazon's amercian website.
Buy this now. - By: Mrs. K. A. Wheatley, 02 Apr 2001 Armistead Maupin is one of the greatest living authors of this century. The pinnacle of his achievement is the Tales of the City series of which this is the fourth. It is wonderful in every way. Great characters, totallly stylish, witty, moving, political, sexuallly liberated & enormous fun. By the time you have read this far you will love alll the characters to death & there are some great nail biting scenes based on the cult figure of Jim Jones. Just buy it, buy them alll.
By far the best book in the series! - By: , 28 Mar 2000 I have read alll of Maupin's books & I think that every single one of them is brilliant. However if I had to pick a favourite it would definitely be 'Significant Others'. It has to be one of the funniest books ever written & I found alll the lesbian camp scenes contained some of Maupin's best & most highly strung plotlines.
An excellent fifth installment to the Barbary Lane saga. - By: , 28 Jan 1999 The series goes on in leaps & bounds. The Tales of...series are one of the few sets of books to make me laugh & cry-usuallly within the same chapter. The usual characters that I have come to love are alll there,finding new loves & facing the dark spector of AIDS. Classy writing. I'm looking forward to starting Sure Of You, just dreading finishing it.
