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beautifulshell 's review for:
Any Human Heart
by William Boyd
3.5, I think.
What good luck for LMS that he managed to write one last reflective, summing entry in his journal right before dying. That he didn't die after reporting on breakfast, or in the middle of a long explanation. That last entry tempers the poignancy (the bad kind?) of the latter half of his life - lives aren't meant to be condensed into 400 pages, reduced to so few events and relationships. It almost made me hope to die before I get so old as to see everyone else leave before me. So thanks, LMS, for concluding with satisfaction and pride in a life well-lived. Otherwise, I might have wanted to die along with you.
Now that I've written that, I'm thinking it will feel overly melodramatic in the morning, but the fact that that's what this book has done to me probably says more than anything I am actually thinking about.
What good luck for LMS that he managed to write one last reflective, summing entry in his journal right before dying. That he didn't die after reporting on breakfast, or in the middle of a long explanation. That last entry tempers the poignancy (the bad kind?) of the latter half of his life - lives aren't meant to be condensed into 400 pages, reduced to so few events and relationships. It almost made me hope to die before I get so old as to see everyone else leave before me. So thanks, LMS, for concluding with satisfaction and pride in a life well-lived. Otherwise, I might have wanted to die along with you.
Now that I've written that, I'm thinking it will feel overly melodramatic in the morning, but the fact that that's what this book has done to me probably says more than anything I am actually thinking about.