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# Too Good To Be True MP3 CD – Unabridged, October 16, 2012

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## Customer Reviews

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    The Life of a Writer
  

*by T***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 29, 2012*

I read an excerpt from this book and found it compelling: a writer of some success finds that his life has fallen apart and he is failing.  Then, when I sought the book out, I realized that I knew this guy--as an author, anyway.  I had read his first novel, An Underachiever's Diary, when it came out.  The fact that I remembered it so well after better than a dozen years reminded me that I had liked it.  So I was interested to find out more about his story.  As Anastas himself describes it, it turns out to be a tale of failures, both his own and of those around him.In short: Anastas writes a novel which has some modest success and then gets his second novel published by a prestigious house, FSG, where his upward rise continues.  This is followed by difficulties in producing a third novel. Along the way, he has a brief affair which he confesses to his fiancé.  She decides to marry him anyway, but they are divorced within a year and she is pregnant with his son.  In the years after his son's birth, his financial position becomes more and more precarious, to the point where he is heavily in debt and earning nothing.There is a lot of tragedy here, but the main focus seems to be his near bankruptcy.  Some of the most moving passages have to do with how he scrounges change to pay for the rare nights he gets to spend with his son.  It also appears to be the hinge of his new relationship.  Eliza seems to want to marry and have children with Anastas but is concerned he doesn't have the wherewithal to dig himself out of his hole.Ultimately, the money situation is more than just a practical problem.  It is symbolic of his inability to recover from the damage of his marriage and career, and get back on his feet.  As the memoir nears its end, we are given some smatterings of hope that Anastas has turned himself around, but it certainly isn't clear that he's made it through.  Perhaps because this is a story still in progress.In the end, I was glad I read this book.  I had trouble with parts of it.  I have difficulty with people who seem to be creators of their own problems and then let their problems manipulate them, generally through pseudo-psychoanalysis.  On the other hand, I felt very close to Anastas as I read.  Not only because I'm familiar with his other work and can see how the mighty have fallen but also because I have writerly pretentions that are similar to Anastas's.  Had things been a bit different for me, I might have seen a road similar to his.  I like to think I would have treaded more carefully but who can tell?  It was interesting for me to see what life can be really like for a writer.

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    Improves as it goes.
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 17, 2012*

I have to honestly say that I hated this book for the first fourth of it.  I thought that Anastas was whiny and frankly the kind of guy I would warn my daughter against.  His career as a novelist was in free fatal, and he was broke.  In a nice piece of writing, he discusses his humiliating world of taking coins to Coinstar to buy groceries.  He was with one woman who would like him to stabilize his life, and to whom he is lying about his debts. His firstnwife had left him while pregant with his son.  He had cheated on her just before the wedding, but they had thought they had gotten past this betrayal. At this point, the book is filled with rage, self hate, and envy of those who are succeeding.  I tend to finish my books, and it grew on me.  I can see the pain he endured as a child, the casualty of the great 60's experiment, and a dreadful psychiatric hospital.  We hear more about his efforts to salvage his marriage.In the second part of the book, he widens his focus to include his understanding of the pain he really has caused.  We see a more balanced man.  I began to like him better.  One can only love a man who is in love with his son.  The focus began to shift from the wrongs done to him, to the ways he could pull his life to a place where he could be productive agai, maximize his life with his son, and attempt to save his relationship with honesty.  The writing is indeed clear and evocative.Read it and see what you think.

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    A painful struggle for redemption
  

*by P***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 31, 2012*

This book has a number of touching, powerful sections.  Unfortunately it also has a lot tedious sections.  It jumps all over the place and yet the basic story is interesting enough to keep you reading.  The author, a writer, is down on his luck: broke, a single father, can't write, dealing with failed relationships and trying desperately to hold on to his current relationship but his financial status is causing massive tension in the relationship (and in his whole life).  Anyone who has been broke can sympathize with some of the situations he faces but it still breaks your heart.  You want to shout: "Go get a job - any job!"  Actually, by the end of the book he does but by that time he has dug himself into quite a financial (and emotional) hole.  It seems he uses this book as a sort of diary or journal to work his way out of the mess - and that probably explains why the book is somewhat messy.  He tries to give up his electronics and just scribble in notebooks.  Perhaps that helps him - particularly as he figures out more about his incredibly dysfunctional family.One little technical note: I read this book on my Kindle and throughout the book the word "off" was truncated to "of".  It happens repeatedly but the context makes the meaning clear.  I thought this was interesting.Despite my complaints above, I can still recommend this book as an interesting memoir of collapse and attempt to rejuvenate.  The title of the book has a particularly poignant meaning...  And the last chapter is particularly touching.

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