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Title: Awful. Seriously awful.
Review: A memoir deconstructing a young man's response to his mother's death makes for worthy subject matter, certainly. But The Loss is so poorly written, so desperately in need of developmental and technical editing that it's simply unreadable. A drink, on me, for anyone who can give me an accurate exclamation-point count on the book. 'Cause there's a freakin lot of them! Admittedly, I did enjoy the book. Once. That is to say, one night, my friends and I (mostly attorneys, all of us would probably fall into the "semi-intellectual" category) were all stoned and I read a couple passages aloud and we loved it. But except to be used like that, you know, to get a few yucks and feel superior by mocking others' work, which is just mean, the book is just dreadful. In fact, I have to believe that those giving good reviews are friends or family members of the writer. They just have to be. Beware the self-pub'ed book!
