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Review title: Great introduction to John Updike; more generally, a great analysis of the impact on life of our self-perceptions
Product review: I'm so glad I finally read John Updike, starting with this book. It's a very touching, personal, well written diary, really. Updike is very open about having been self-conscious his whole life due to a skin condition he had that isolated him quite frequently as he tried to fight it by lying in the sun. The book is a revelation about the famous writer and how his life revolved around this condition and the self-consciousness it engendered. Being very self-conscious myself about certain things, I almost cried reading his revelations and honest self-assessments. I highly recommend this book if you want to understand the workings of self-consciousness or of the famous author.
