Does The Folding Star live up to the other Alan Hollinghurst novels I have read?

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Does The Folding Star live up to the other Alan Hollinghurst novels I have read?
Why Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda is a brilliant book that I can relate to in a way that I never have before with a work of literature.
Genre: LGBT+, Gay Fiction Publishing Info: 2017 by Picador Pages: 454 Star Rating: 3.5/5 Back Cover Summary: In October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford.
Genre: LGBT+, Gay Fiction, Romance Publishing Info: 2009 by Atlantic Books (originally published in 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Pages: 248 Star Rating: 4.5/5