The story sounds compelling
but he never gets to it
In the style of “best sellers “ it digs deeper and deeper holes
of minutiae until there is no story.
The first 12 pages went into excruciating excessive detail
of his mother preparing for an evening out
to a reading of her poetry
and how much he needed to be in her presence
It is difficult to understand the author or to believe in the credibility of the book being a memoir.
For example
"Unfortunately , my parents loathed each other and the life they built together .
Because I was the product of their genetic fusion, well, it is not surprising I liked to boil
my change on the stove and then shine it with metal polish."
HuH? I don’t get it
One of the EPL commentaries said it did not seem like a memoir and I would have to agree
because the mechanics do not work out
His mother supposedly sees this psychiatrist once a week then daily then hours per day
few people could afford to pay for such one on one attention
and there is nothing to indicate that his mother could either.
So if she is not able to afford the fees of seeing a psychiatrist for hours every day
then neither can or would a psychiatrist be able to afford to be unpaid for the greater part of the day.
If that were the only non credible part, you could overlook it,
but there are so many stacked one on top of the other,
you begin to doubt that anything in his “ Memoirs” are based on actual happenings.
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