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Title: A really good story in there somewhere...
Review: The premise of this book is very compelling, containing the makings of an intriguing and haunting memoir/biography. Indeed, the early chapters are well written and quite promising.But the story gets lost, bogging down under the author's self-absorbed meanderings, and his heavy reliance on rambling, not-so-brilliant excerpts from David's notebooks.The book falls short because Dornstein fails to examine what's at the center of all this: his own fixation with his charismatic and deeply troubled older brother.There is a universally true story in here, tragic and quirky and surprising, but Ken Dornstein may have been too close to be the one to write it. Too bad.
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