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You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead (2011)

by Marieke Hardy(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1742377262 (ISBN13: 9781742377261)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Allen & Unwin

review 1: The reason I couldn’t read Marieke Hardy’s book is the same reason I don’t watch television. So many disconnected images passing by in the slipstream, as if they have meaning in themselves, but only having meaning if the hooks on them connect with some meaning within ourselves. The few that do for me, have no context or substance within her stream to carry me on to others which make the meaning in any way greater. It is not even a sense of humour to me, and for the very same reason. It is like a constant irritation. I don’t need to go to the chemist for a cream to ease it. Prevention is better than cure in this case, as in many others. I’d enjoy reading her suicide note more.
review 2: I found this book really enjoyable to read, as well as funny. I ... morehad heard criticism of this book as being a self-indulgent spiel about her middle-class problems. It is all about her, but there is more than self-promotion and exhibitionism going on. I think Hardy has a genuine talent for moving/honest prose that people can relate to. Hardy's openness, willingness to give things a try, as well as the celebration of her less admirable characteristics was quite inspiring. This book is witty(and very crude!) and the cringe-inducing stories are in the spirit of David Foster Wallace and David Sedaris. less

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