i can't even rate this because five stars is not enough... i can't even talk about what i thought because it felt so much like reading about myself in book form... in a way, it's a bit like how i can't rate memoirs because it feels like rating a person's life, and i can't rate this because it hit so, so close to home—this was a book i desperately needed without even knowing it.

ykw, i've just popped over to Goodreads and saw that the reviews there are /quite/ polarizing so i am, in fact, going to rate this because it deserves all the stars in the world even though i can only give it five.