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A review by tjlcody
You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss
1.0
So, yeah, the author's upfront about the fact that this is a mix of memoir and true crime.
The problem is that it's more "aimless memoir" than it is true crime. Even what little remains of the true crime aspect of the book is horrendously boring and disconnected.
The opening of the book leads you to believe that the two will tie-in significantly- they don't. I made it about halfway through the book before I gave up. Things just jump all over the place throughout the book, from one meaningless topic to another. There's no direction to this book and without something to compensate for an anticipated payoff- something interesting to read in the meantime, even if it's confusing- it's just painful to keep sloughing through it.
The problem is that it's more "aimless memoir" than it is true crime. Even what little remains of the true crime aspect of the book is horrendously boring and disconnected.
The opening of the book leads you to believe that the two will tie-in significantly- they don't. I made it about halfway through the book before I gave up. Things just jump all over the place throughout the book, from one meaningless topic to another. There's no direction to this book and without something to compensate for an anticipated payoff- something interesting to read in the meantime, even if it's confusing- it's just painful to keep sloughing through it.