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Title: FAILURE AS A SOLDIER, FAILURE AS AN AUTHOR
Review: After reading "A mouthful of Rocks", one would have to wonder if the author succeeded at anything he tried in life, of even cared to finish any commitment. Entering adulthood without a scrap of self esteem, and having the mental maturity and naivete of a child, it is no wonder why all his hopes and dreams were destroyed in the Legion. While suffering from acute chronic alcoholism and clinical depression, if the author had never joined the Legion, we may well be reading a bitter expose he has written about his failed attempt at college, a marriage, or any other various activities which require a commitment and effort.The reader must keep these facts in mind when reading this book, and due to author's emotional problems, must also take the facts as presented with extreme suspicion, as people bitter and disgruntled by an experience will tend to exaggerate circumstances to further their message that they really were not a failure.
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