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A review by acanthous
The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith Eva Eger
3.0
The first quarter of the book kept me very engaged... the rest meandered a bit, restating the same idea and losing any urgency. The way some of the events unfolded seemed highly implausible and I wonder if memory (or editing) quilted them together in a way that wasn't exactly what occurred.
I felt a lot of narrative distance while reading and assumed it was because of the extreme amount of time that has passed (perhaps Dr. Eger didn't remember much of it anymore). But then at the end, Dr. Eger acknowledged a "cowriter" ...this is usually the most acknowledgement ghostwriters get. I buy memoirs because they're memoirs, which should be an intimate account written by the person who experienced it (I very rarely read "memoirs" of famous people for this reason - almost 100% are ghostwritten). If a "cowriter" had been acknowledged on the cover I probably wouldn't have bought this... and I'm not sure if I'd be worse off for that.
I felt a lot of narrative distance while reading and assumed it was because of the extreme amount of time that has passed (perhaps Dr. Eger didn't remember much of it anymore). But then at the end, Dr. Eger acknowledged a "cowriter" ...this is usually the most acknowledgement ghostwriters get. I buy memoirs because they're memoirs, which should be an intimate account written by the person who experienced it (I very rarely read "memoirs" of famous people for this reason - almost 100% are ghostwritten). If a "cowriter" had been acknowledged on the cover I probably wouldn't have bought this... and I'm not sure if I'd be worse off for that.