Title: Mixed Bag
Product review: Aron Ralston has had an admittedly unique experience. He had to amputate his own hand to save his life. What is missing amidst all the hoopla and notoriety surrounding this amazing story is that he engineered his own predicament through a combination of stupidity and hubris. The actual circumstances leading up to and through his ordeal are interesting and, at time, riveting. However, the author takes what should be a magazine sized story , and expands it to book length by padding it with the boring and suffocatingly self indulgent "story of my life". Well, the story of Aron Ralston's life is one all too familiar in the world of "me first." I finally had to skip long passages of "his love affair with himself" to get to the heart of the story. My suggestion: wait for the Reader's Digest version.
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