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Title: strictly for the adolescent crowd
Review: Moody's not an untalented writer, but his great talent seems to be self-promotion. I read about a third of the way into his latest, just to see if he'd found some new topic besides his unpleasant self-- but this "memoir" may be the book that finally reveals the emperor's nakedness. Every sentence reeks of self-promotion, grandiosity, and an assertion of the author's literary "importance." It's unbelievable and in a way quite sad, because the author clearly can write well and clearly cares about books and literature. But this one made me want to take a bath. I wonder who his friend in Baltimore is.
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