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Title: A sadly mistitled book
Review: For a better title, how about "Garbage Day: My Years of Self-Delusion and Rationalization"? That does better justice to its contents. A pathetic, trashy book that epitomizes the predicament of the "unreliable narrator." Even Branden admits its unreliability: that's why he had to re-write it with a new, embarrassingly non-confrontational title. The hope, apparently, was to correct the more transparent errors in the first edition, and desperately to pretend that "judgment" was no longer at issue. But, alas, it is. It's hard to read this book with one's critical faculties "on" and not see that Nathaniel's critical faculties are "off" and have been since the 1960s. Best bet for the book: put it in the trash can, and leave it at the curb in the hopes that they'll haul it away. (Don't bother recycling it. The author has already done that.)
