Willing
A Novel

“You can’t always care about what you do, and how you behave.” If I had to express one thing about this book it would be: Wow, this man can write! By why stop there? I heard Scott Spencer on my car’s radio the other day when tuned to NPR with Terry Gross, and even though I arrived at my destination,......more

Avery Jankowsky is a middle-aged, free-lance writer whose world is upended when his younger lover informs him that she has had an affair. To help him move on, a generous uncle offers him a spot on a high-end Scandinavian sex tour. Though Avery's original intent is to participate in the tour only as......more

Scott Spencer is at his best when he writes about love/desire that grows exponentially until it becomes destructive to both lovers and the entire world around them. In that sphere, he is a master - though I am not one to expect a writer to be a one-trick pony. I was thrilled to find that he had a ne......more

Scott Spencer is such a terrific writer, I'd been waiting a long time to read this book, and I wanted to do it slowly, savouring all the descriptions and obsession. The book has such a terrific start. A guy with four fathers, a girfriend who is cheating, and allows the protagonist to read her journal......more

Such a promising start--no one writes about obsessive love as well as Scott Spencer did in Endless Love, a great book which was, unfortunately, made into an abysmally bad film (moral of that tale: read contracts carefully, and retain some choices, namely, no Brooke Shields, and no Lionel Richie/Dia......more