this post contains spoilers for Disco Witches of Fire Island by Blair Fell. you can read it anyway because i do not recommend you spend your precious time on this earth reading it.   I  finished reading a book on Friday that I disliked reading so much I was just happy it was finally over. I've read many reviews of this book and a lot of them simply praise it, which I think is cowardly, but understandable, considering the book is based on a highly personal story from the author. in the author's note, Fell writes:  While Disco Witches of Fire Island  is a work of fiction, it's partially inspired by own life events during the early years of the AIDS crisis in America, when I fell in love for the first time with a wonderful man and lost him to the virus. [In the aftermath of that heartbreak] ... I moved into the attic of a house on Picketty Ruff which was inhabited by three older gay men who had come of age in a time before AIDS. ... I had always wanted to write so...