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Title: Once fat, always fat
Review: "Forever fat: essays from the Godfather" seems to be the author's clever excuse for proving himself deserving of the positive attention he never received as a child. A universal thread: childhood scars that carry themselves into adulthood. Who hasn't been on the receiving end of a sucker-punch? While I admire Gutkind's honesty, oftentimes at the expense of too much information, I am not convinced that, as a middle-aged man, he's really dealt with any of his demons. In fact, his writing style seems overly structured and forced, and the book reads more as an in-your-face comeback to all the people in his life who've wronged him than a work of literature. And I'm still left confused as to what this problematic genre of creative nonfiction really is, which is perhaps a good thing. This book is a testimony to the statement: you can take the man out of the fat, but you can't take the fat out of the man.
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