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Title: whiny
Review: I thought this was a pretty good read till I got to the part where the guy suffers the double amputation.I mean, sure, that's a major blow and all, but did the narrator really have to spend the next 200 pages whining about his fate and reminiscing about the usefulness of his now-lost limbs?It would have been much better had he adopted a more hopeful note--perhaps centering his despair on the various kinds of prosthetic devices that were the obsession of so many of the "Lost Generation" writers.As it is, this book is just one long nostalgic memoir about the guy's missing and unrecoverable arms: most of it consists of him lovingly describing how he would use them to lift, swing, pull, etc., but now, tragically, must use his feet for these tasks.Such bizarre self-pity might have been okay for a few pages, but for 200? Honestly!
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