3.5 stars. Deep/heavy subject re: the father/son relationship. Incredibly honesty portrayal of the author's coming of age and terms with father he had/father he wanted/father he wants to be.

This book is about redemption and it's a very personal story of the relationship that the author has with his father. It was well written and never bored me, but just isn't my favourite kind of read.

Never read Jarhead. Might just to see more of his writing style. This had too much of his anger toward his Dad in it. At 40 some of that anger and hatred should be gone, understood, dissipated.

Memoirs our maybe not my genre?.. Its all about him so it should be centered on himself but I kept thinking it was too defensive and trust too much a out him...maybe I shouldn't read memoirs!

Never read Jarhead. Might just to see more of his writing style. This had too much of his anger toward his Dad in it. At 40 some of that anger and hatred should be gone, understood, dissipated.