I'm a big fan of Stephen Elliott's Rumpus Web site (especially his "Letters in the Mail" feature where you get real letters in mail - ask your parents if you're too young to remember such things). I also really enjoy Stephen's emails and the writers he champions, but I've never read any of his books. The style was very familiar and if the sign of a great book is that it makes you think about those aspects of life we ignore (truth, friendship, memory, etc.) that get ignored (mostly due to life itself), then this is a great book. Memoirs by definition can be self-indulgent, but by framing his story around an ongoing murder trial, much of the "me" focus is tempered with the external events. I look forward to reading more of his books (and getting more letters in the mail!)[author:Stephen Elliott|20774] The author is a very strange man. Totally drugged up and on the masochist side of S/M. However, he sat in on the trial of Hans Reiser who murdered his wife Nina. Normally, I wouldn't read the book, but the Reiser's children spent 3 years at the school and we were very involved in the awful drama before the murder and some of us testified at the trial. I had 4 run-ins with Hans in the office while on my own and, although I knew he was totally bat crazy, I realize mow that I was possibly in a lot of danger. The whole thing was so tragic and we all still struggle 7 years later to cope and understand it. Hence, the book.
Do You like book The Adderall Diaries (2009)?
"There are so many people trying to be recognized that all you have to do is stand still."
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Liked the ending more than the beginning. It started really flowing at the end.
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"I am not sad all the time but I will always be sad sometimes."
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