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This was cute, loved the queer & trans rep
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I might edit this later when I don’t have a fever and am more clear headed, so might not be the best word choices but you get the jist.
Overall, this felt pretentious. The parts focused on himself/his job felt egotistical and arrogant. Half of the book felt like trying to convince us that his career was the hardest job and could only be done by the smartest people alive. The parts focused more on his patients felt pretty ableist and almost seemed like he had a god complex.
The best part was the epilogue written by his wife, and I think if the best part of a memoir is the part that you didn’t write, that says a lot.
I firmly believe that not everyone needs to write a memoir and I think this was a prime example of that. This read like a self-important man grappling with his immortality and trying to convince us that his life was meaningful (while simultaneously convincing himself).
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T.J. Alexander