A review by kade_spade
My Lobotomy by Charles Fleming, Howard Dully

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

Great book in terms of getting to learn and understand more about lobotomy and the patients that had to endure it. I know it’s just one man’s story (and it’s incredibly lucky compared to others who have received lobotomy’s) but I think Dully does a good job with sprinkling in others experiences. However, the writing is a little sloppy and hard to follow the timeline sometimes. If you view that flaw in a different perspective of that this man had a lobotomy and his brain isn’t “normal” it provides another level to reading. I like that the editor kept it mostly how Dully wrote it without much change because it really does add an extra element of putting you in his shoes. Dully does become a little “woe is me”, but he had a lobotomy at 12 so, in my opinion, “woe is me” is more than justified and it didn’t bother me at all. I never rate memoirs a 5 star because I feel weird judging someone’s story that way, but this book dropped from a 4 to a 3 star after viewing Dully’s Twitter. It left a sour taste in my mouth and made me feel like after the radio show and book he changed his personality a little. Again he did have a lobotomy so I’ll offer grace, but his Twitter really changed my view. Overall, a very great read in terms of material, I would highly suggest it, especially for those in heath care. However, don’t look at his Twitter if you don’t want your perception of Dully to change from what he presents in the book.