Eileen_2019
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Another amazing review on Goodreads:
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It details Jonathan's very early life in which he escapes to an imaginary world to cope with a lack of acceptance for the child that he is or wants to be.
It is a most confusing, jumbled up book which needs some serious re-editing to pull it back together. I don't know if it's an attempt at a very directed stream of consciousness, but I feel that Jonathan has just detailed every single thing that he can remember about his life with no continuous thread to pull it all together. This book reads more like a work of fiction and I found a lot of it unbelievable. I struggle with the idea that a man in his forties can remember his childhood in such vivid detail. Yes, we all remember snippets of early life, but not in as much detail.
My biggest issue with the book, apart from the fact it is poorly written, is that I don't know what the point of it is? It just felt very self-indulgent and egocentric to me, but I guess that is the nature of 'modern celebrity' these days. I feel like a lot of celebs and non celebs bring out a book as it's the next step for them, but sometimes just because you can doesn't mean you should.
I probably wouldn't have read this book ordinarily, so it was interesting to try something new, but it's not one I'd recommend."
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It details Jonathan's very early life in which he escapes to an imaginary world to cope with a lack of acceptance for the child that he is or wants to be.
It is a most confusing, jumbled up book which needs some serious re-editing to pull it back together. I don't know if it's an attempt at a very directed stream of consciousness, but I feel that Jonathan has just detailed every single thing that he can remember about his life with no continuous thread to pull it all together. This book reads more like a work of fiction and I found a lot of it unbelievable. I struggle with the idea that a man in his forties can remember his childhood in such vivid detail. Yes, we all remember snippets of early life, but not in as much detail.
My biggest issue with the book, apart from the fact it is poorly written, is that I don't know what the point of it is? It just felt very self-indulgent and egocentric to me, but I guess that is the nature of 'modern celebrity' these days. I feel like a lot of celebs and non celebs bring out a book as it's the next step for them, but sometimes just because you can doesn't mean you should.
I probably wouldn't have read this book ordinarily, so it was interesting to try something new, but it's not one I'd recommend."
Ouuuuuccchhh......
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