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Title: We're only little boys for a litte while
Review: I was unprepared for the strength of this book. After the light-hearted, hilarious yet at most bittersweet previous Doyle works such as The Commitments and The Van, I was assuming that this book would continue in that vein. Instead, what I found was the maturation of an incredibly gifted writer, one who demonstrates his newfound maturity by reverting to that most basic of human creatures, the ten-yeard-old boy; our curiosity was balanced only by our inability to be impressed, and our cruelty was neither a sign of mental illness nor primal instincts geared towards pack advancement, but simply a continuation of our attempts to fill those sponge-like little minds.The final chapter left me breathless. I finished the book, found my wife, handed her the book and said "This is what it was like to have been a little boy."
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