by Daniel B. Smith
For anyone who read and enjoyed A Little Life, this book has some similarities with the mention that it has more funny moments.
Skip it.
Skip it.
This memoir didn't quite do it for me. The writing was competent enough; and the characterization of a few key characters -- namely the woman the author had his first sexual encounter with and his mother -- were fleshed out well, but the others, including the love of the author's life, fell flat. As...
I'm still trying to figure out what the message of this book was. Between having to look up every other word (once again leading me to feel stupid) and never really going anywhere with his story, this was not my cup of tea. I get that the writer had a traumatic experience at a young age (several a...
So far beyond my experience as to be incomprehensible. Seriously, I felt as if I was reading a book that only sort of looked like English but was in some other language entirely. I couldn't find a handle on Smith's life experience, I couldn't muster an iota of identification, and I'm probably not qu...
This book is supposed to be funny? Really? And a New York Times bestseller nonetheless!!!!I'm going to have to take upon myself to find out how much one pays to be on that list because I couldn't find not even one episode that would make me, let's say, slightly smile.Funny? Does Smith know what that...
As someone who struggles a great deal with anxiety, I very much related to a lot of what Smith had to say, though I wish he had fleshed out a lot more of his story -- particularly the last chapter, where he talks about working to prevent his anxiety from interfering with his marriage.
Received as a First Reads giveaway.Smith isn't just anxious, he's clinically anxious--an important distinction of quality as well as quantity. This well-written and often amusing memoir also poignantly captures the debilitating nature of his disorder.
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