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2.0
This book was just an okay read for me. Apart from three spelling errors (that I caught), it was well-written, but I had to really fight to stay awake while reading the second half (which I read between around 8:30p to 11:50p on July 13). :-(
I had hoped to count this book as "a humor book," but I never once felt amused.
While I commend Jamie Iredell for getting off the drugs, and stopping smoking (and the heavy drinking?), I cannot say that I enjoyed reading so many essays about his drug use. :-(
Partly, my aforementioned lack of enjoyment was due to the fact that I have never used drugs, I've only ever smoked maybe five cigarettes (but I think only two or three), and my own alcohol "abuse" was never so abusive as to be dangerous to myself or others. (Regarding the latter, I always say that once upon a time, I was almost a lush.)
Really, though, I spent much of this book thinking that Jamie Iredell was an unfavorable and objectionable human being and that it was a wonder his wife married him. :-(
(Thankfully, he cleaned up his act and then met the woman who would become his wife.)
And though the last essay, and maybe the previous two, featured a "clean" Jamie, I did not find his writing very engaging. As I said above, I was really fighting to stay awake. :-(
So this book gets just two "okay" stars from me. :-(
I had hoped to count this book as "a humor book," but I never once felt amused.
While I commend Jamie Iredell for getting off the drugs, and stopping smoking (and the heavy drinking?), I cannot say that I enjoyed reading so many essays about his drug use. :-(
Partly, my aforementioned lack of enjoyment was due to the fact that I have never used drugs, I've only ever smoked maybe five cigarettes (but I think only two or three), and my own alcohol "abuse" was never so abusive as to be dangerous to myself or others. (Regarding the latter, I always say that once upon a time, I was almost a lush.)
Really, though, I spent much of this book thinking that Jamie Iredell was an unfavorable and objectionable human being and that it was a wonder his wife married him. :-(
(Thankfully, he cleaned up his act and then met the woman who would become his wife.)
And though the last essay, and maybe the previous two, featured a "clean" Jamie, I did not find his writing very engaging. As I said above, I was really fighting to stay awake. :-(
So this book gets just two "okay" stars from me. :-(
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