Our aspirations, are wrapped up in books
Yes folks its time for a Book Review! Oh boy aren't you all in for a treat. Following on from my hugely succesful previous blog I have now finished reading Stuart: A Life Backwards.
First of all I must say I agree with Stuart when he said how the book should be written backwards like a mystery. It is this format which makes the book something slightly special among things I have read. I must admit I started off wondering why I should feel any sympathy with this man and I particularly disliked the author who seemed a complete arse. By the end it left me wondering how else someone could turn out after experiencing everything Stuart went through. The last few chapters of the book are both awful and amazing at the same time and gave me another of those wake up calls you get now and again when you realise how simple your own life has been.
The way it is written is perhaps the only way it could be and its strange how easy it is to see how you could be friends with this man who had done so many horrendous things. I almost urge you to go into this book with prejudice. Try and hate this man over the opening chapters and see where your opinion is at the end. There is both hope and hopelessness in equal measure from Stuart's story but I for one feel a better person for having read it.
I still don't like the author though.
For a lighter note have a look at Tim Cahill (watch right to the end). Legend.
First of all I must say I agree with Stuart when he said how the book should be written backwards like a mystery. It is this format which makes the book something slightly special among things I have read. I must admit I started off wondering why I should feel any sympathy with this man and I particularly disliked the author who seemed a complete arse. By the end it left me wondering how else someone could turn out after experiencing everything Stuart went through. The last few chapters of the book are both awful and amazing at the same time and gave me another of those wake up calls you get now and again when you realise how simple your own life has been.
The way it is written is perhaps the only way it could be and its strange how easy it is to see how you could be friends with this man who had done so many horrendous things. I almost urge you to go into this book with prejudice. Try and hate this man over the opening chapters and see where your opinion is at the end. There is both hope and hopelessness in equal measure from Stuart's story but I for one feel a better person for having read it.
I still don't like the author though.
For a lighter note have a look at Tim Cahill (watch right to the end). Legend.
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