Title: Odd, but interesting
Product review: This is a very unusual book, written in an odd style that is, in the end, rather effective. It's easy to tell that a lot of the conversations in this "non-fiction" work never happened, for some of the sentences supposedly coming out of the mouth of the author's young brother are absolutely impossible to imagine. Interestingly, the author admits that much of this work is thoroughly overwritten and exaggerated, for whatever reason. This book is a big best seller, which makes me wonder what people see in it to compell them to purchase. I liked reading it, but I think that I probably would not have bought it (probably because of the pretentious title) if it hadn't been as commercially successful as it has. I got it just to see what all the hoopla was about. I'm happy I bought and read it, for under all the artifice and affectation is a real, honest "heartbreaking" story, even if I don't believe there is any "staggering genius" accompanying it.
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